Just more FAKE NEWS!". Would the storm cell be immediately vaporized? If we could convert the energy to build the Great Pyramid, would it be enough to send a rocket to the Moon and back? She has learned enough about the rules of the road to know never to drive into the ocean; however, she jokingly suggested that given a sufficient quantity of rental cars, she could eventually get to Europe by driving east repeatedly. At least two comics coming out right after this was referencing this article. If we hooked turbines to people exercising in gyms, how much power could we produce? Fortunately for the coast, these waves are fundamentally different from What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant? goes with citing temperature records and other trivia actually naming a Jeopardy master. After that articles began coming out regularly with a total of 9 releases out before the end of March 2016, mainly on Tuesdays to begin with, then one on a Friday before the last two came on Saturdays with two weeks breaks before each, the last being article 149 on March 26, 2016. With less than 3 weeks between releases, releases seems to have become more regular in the beginning of 2017. What if you exploded a nuclear bomb (say, the Tsar Bomba) at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? Not much. Hurricanes [] Hurricane Where-The-Hell-Is-Bermuda []. My boyfriend recently took a flight on a plane with wifi, and while he was up there, wistfully asked if I could send him a pizza. 95 minutes at the right place at the right time. Would I be able to boil a cup of water by stirring? NOAA, who are so obviously at the end of their rope on this subject, explained how radioactive fallout making it to land after we nuke a hurricane is less than ideal. But after defeating the Nazis and inventing the atom bomb, scientists seemed to think anything was possible, including controlling the weather. the continental shelf. When they do, you have to pause between letters, making those words annoying to type. Other than being a really bad idea, what effect would it have? It's difficult to envision a practical way of moving that much air around.". Would it negate the need for a heat shield? Any time I attempt to heat left over Chinese food in a microwave, it fails to heat completely through somewhere. What would happen if one tried to funnel Niagara Falls through a straw? But that doesn't mean serious scientists haven't thought about the possibility. Has humanity produced enough paint to cover the entire land area of the Earth? It should be noted that Trump denied the original report (by tweet, calling it "FAKE NEWS") and reiterated his denial when Biden mentioned it. Stopping rain from falling on something with an umbrella or a tent is boring. How long would it take for the population of the world to read them all out loud? with 64 GB MicroSD cards all full of legally purchased music)? Could it navigate? And the best part is, it's all humanity's fault. waters of the Gulf of Mexicos Loop Current sometimes cause hurricanes What injuries would occur and what would the associated crimes be? But it would be the same problem with nukes. At the moment it seems impossible to guess when a new post is released so: Below is a list of the articles released in the what if? This is potentially hazardous to some ships, but In Armageddon, a NASA guy comments that a plan to shoot a laser at the asteroid is like shooting a b.b. The ninth break in total. 'My friend and I were arguing about what would happen if a bullet got struck by lightning, and we agreed that you should resolve it . Were they lonely? The result would be some kind of nuclear explosion. Would you freeze or suffocate first? You are in a boat directly over the Mariana Trench. Surprisingly littleespecially compared to what would happen if you put Could you electrofish for a blue whale? briefly glows the magma of the mantle. After that they were released weekly for almost three years, with just a few times with two (and once three) weeks between releases, up until article 136 was released on April 12, 2015 (2 years and 40 weeks). The New START, signed by then-presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in 2010, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. During this lovely dinner I was forced to liberate a small portion of wind and was relieved that I managed to do so very discretely. This work is licensed under a And we could make it not deadly, somehow? The destruction hurricanes leave in their wake is epic. This comic gives ludicrous and ironic upcoming hurricane paths on an unlabelled map of the Americas that shows the region roughly between central Canada and northern South America.Blue and red dotted lines indicate the future hurricane paths. The reason for this you can read at the Editor FAQ . However, Riechelderfer understood the gravity of the idea, saying they'd wait to start nuking storms "until we know what we're doing." How long would the Sun last if a giant water hose were focused upon it? "By the way," he continued, gesturing to Trump, "he has an answer for hurricanes. What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop? Nuking hurricanes is in line with his long-held fascination with and trust in nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Biking at that speed would make your body generate so much heat your core temperature would reach fatal levels in seconds. In the memo, one of the eight ideas Freeman discusses is the use of Obviously, the answer is to nuke them when they are still small and not an issue. What is the furthest one human being has ever been from every other living person? Since 2014, there's also a book of the blog. The world just has too many people. Most of the time it would not hit anyhing. From here on standard release day was Thursday. The bill had no co-sponsors, never received a hearing and never became law. If you went outside and lay down on your back with your mouth open, how long would you have to wait until a bird pooped in it? Should the person survive, what would be the number of bouncy balls needed to kill them? That is a lot of energy. 8000+ feet)? What in my pocket actually contains more energy, my Zippo or my smartphone? Explanation []. Not with regular lasers, but with more power, you could destroy the world. If my printer could literally print out money, would it have that big an effect on the world? much less catastrophic than a direct nuclear attack. How much physical space does the internet take up? These turned out to be the remains of North American forests Almost nobody would find their soul mate. HIDDEN FEATURE: The inside of this book has words and pictures, plus a special UK foreword. 65-million-year-old Chicxulub impact sitethis kg. exhaustively examines and summarizes all available research about the Though he reportedly . early, and expend most of their energy creating a narrow surf zone on Honestly, my main motivation is to baffle someone in the distant future, but it's an interesting scientific question: what would happen to my body in orbit over the course of years, decades or centuries? Absolutely! But spiders are a lot more scary. Why not nuke a hurricane? At that point, the storm had almost blown itself out and was heading away from the East Coast back out to the ocean. The first of two longer shifts in release day two weeks in a row which resulted in only two releases over three weeks, resulting in the eight break in total. How much volume would they take up and what would they look like? If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color? They would not be able to pay off the debt, even if they forced humanity to work as slaves. The The bar representing Uranium is so large that it extends onto a stack of paper taller than a human]] This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). As the chunks of rock fall back {{Title text: Knuth Paper-Stack Notation: Write down the number on pages. memo from his father, and was kind enough to show it to me. Repeat. (We have an idea for selling bottled Europa water.). After effectively describing what would occur as a nuclear explosion, leveling the stadium and the surrounding mile radius, he concludes with the note "A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered 'hit by pitch', and would be eligible to advance to first base.". The result of the above is that over the first 144 weeks 136 articles where released with never more than 3 weeks between releases. And let if [sic] fall into the great sea, The 'reality' and consequences of using multiple cars (that are not your own) to construct a trans-Atlantic highway. ", In August 2019, the news website Axios wrote that sources who heard the president's private remarks in recorded comments in a National Security Council (NSC) memorandum claimed to have heard Trump asking top national security officials to "consider using nuclear bombs to weaken or destroy hurricanes. How many unique English tweets are possible? Instead,according to Popular Mechanics, he said he could "imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb on a hurricane far at sea." How great would all of these things be? tsunamis. But is this something humanity might actually try one day? Stopping an asteroid with a laser on the other hand is a lot easier. It turns out the ramp would need to be five miles high (8 km) to make this possible, and that would be at a speed slower than walking. Jack W. Reed began his military career as an Air Force meteorologist during the closing days of World War II. Could a (small) rocket (with payload) be lifted to a high point in the atmosphere where it would only need a small rocket to get to escape velocity? convulsions. And that's just one hurricane. Could I cool down the Earth by capturing a comet and dropping it in the ocean, like an ice cube in a glass of water? Until then, perhaps the best solution is just learn to co-exist with them.". guns? If you had a printed version of the whole of (say, the English) Wikipedia, how many printers would you need in order to keep up with the changes made to the live version? This memo has been declassified, but was never published. the only thing to do would be to make a swimming pool. By Luke Darby. Could this be an effective weapon, or would it be as stupid as it sounds? The Sun. At what voltage would you have have to set the e-fisher? like with most of the other scenarios, everyone dies. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). How fast would I have to bike for my skin to warm up the way a spacecraft heats up during reentry? No one would get a perfect score. bounces back, expanding outward again. Between the famine and the fires, most life on Earth is Red successfully cuts off Blue and then dies shortly thereafter. The explosion at the bottom of the Mariana Trench will create a the last is devastating. A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. What place on Earth would allow you to freefall the longest by jumping off it? Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. They are destructive but also relatively contained and short-lived, making them perfect for scientists to try to mess with. Or looking straight up at the bolt? After this less orderly period there came a period of 10 weeks in a row with 10 releases starting on January 1, 2015. What if there was a lake on the Moon? Would we ever generate enough power to offset the cost of the generators? It found that every 10 years for the past four decades, "the likelihood of a hurricane developing into a major one of Category 3 or higher, with sustained winds greater than 110 miles an hour, [increased] by about 8% a decade." eclipse look like? On average, not just in spring or fall. From here on standard release day was Wednesday. Northwest, along with most of coastal China and the rest of the Pacific (Also, Randall misspelled Bethlehem). Two month between releases, and relased two weeks after the previous comic promoting the new book. After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f*ck? But it might have, and that's enough to concern scientists, especially when they are talking about going from cloud seeding to nuclear weapons. Australia owns most of the galaxy at certain points in time. "Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems," the page states. Interesting to see if they will begin appearing regularly again during the spring of 2017, as seems possible with three articles in less than a month and #156 was again released with less than two weeks between it and #155. Hurricanes are definitely worse than they used to be. The most obvious concern when it comes to nuking a hurricane, of course, is nuclear fallout. terrifying passage describing the detonation of a submerged gigaton mine Around the early 1990s, scientists started discovering jumbled fields of This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). Earths atmosphere is really thin compared to the radius of the Earth. How much would you need to make to be in real trouble? This book can't stop most bullets; if you want to use it for armour, you may want a lot more than one copy. Her 13-year-old friend would then drive the Ferrari around, while she sits in the chair enjoying uninterrupted views of the countryside. My question is, what would a bowling ball look like if it were blown up to the size of the Earth? Surely NOAA would tell people to dream big? How many molecules of the ink would be used? Sugar: 19 If, on the other hand, you're being attacked by a coyote, it's higher top speed means you'll have only one chance to hit it. This new release is probably due to the upcoming release of the What If? Kerry Emanuel, a hurricane expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said, "When you see things going up all over the globe like that, the ducks are kind of in order." Slackers. This is clear from his response to the question of what would happen if everybody on Earth stood together and jumped at the same time. rim. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. And, for reasons we'll get into, it would be. You would have to go 200m/s. On the blog, Randall, who has a degree in physics and a strong scientific background, discusses hypothetical physics questions apparently submitted by readers. Now imagine the energy required to stop five or six a year, every year. That's more than 666 times bigger than the "Little Boy" bomb that the US dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. Once we figure out how to almost break the laws of physics, we might be able to stop hurricanes. Although they were presumably trying to say "hotter than the average swimming pool," this got me wondering: What is the average temperature of all water on the Earths surface, and how does that temperature compare to 39C? When my wife and I started dating she invited me over for dinner at one time. If you made an elevator that would go to space (like the one you mentioned in the billion-story building) and built a staircase up (assuming regulated air pressure) about how long would it take to climb to the top? Evins scenario concerns neither. With today's technology, would it be possible to launch an unmanned mission to retrieve Voyager I? I've long thought about putting a flamethrower on the front of a car to melt snow and ice before you drive across it. They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world? Obviously, my boyfriend had to go without pizza until he landed at JFK. Just under four years passed before a new What If. Hurricane cos(x) forms a graph of cos(x) along the bottom edge of the map.]] That's. The flooding they cause is also terrible and deadly, but at least the law of gravitation means that the water stays by the ground. What if the Earth were made entirely of protons, and the Moon were made entirely of electrons? The nature of the food chain means even radioactive plankton could end up harming much larger marine life. 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