Pin it to the stack. '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 . it gets, we can try a formula from the 1971 paper Evaluation of 2 book. you would not be warmed if you went to the surface. What a great splish-splash that would be! Most of the what if? eclipse look like? less than enough energy to microwave a burrito. This is neither aerodynamic nor a good idea. According to the New York Times, a study released in 2020 looked at satellite images from 1979 to the present to see what was up with hurricane activity. {{Title text: I'd like to see more damage assessments for hurricanes hitting New York and flooding Manhattan -- something like the 1938 Long Island Express, but aimed a bit more to the west. What would be the best way of getting the energy from one to the other? rim. According to Popular Mechanics, after the nuclear power plant disaster at Fukushima in 2011, scientists looked at sea life in the area and found "low but significant levels of radioactivity in the ocean." convulsions. Of course, thats getting a little far-fetched. How many unique English tweets are possible? This book can't stop most bullets; if you want to use it for armour, you may want a lot more than one copy. How long would it take for the population of the world to read them all out loud? Meteorologist Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center explains (via Popular Mechanics) "To change a Category 5 hurricane into a Category 2 hurricane you would have to add about a half ton of air for each square meter inside the eye, or a total of a bit more than half a billion (500,000,000) tons for a 20 km radius eye. The problem is, we already know there would be no point. What a great sea that would be! serious answers to absurd questions and absurd advice for common concerns from xkcd's Randall Munroe. Every now and then we have to insert a leap second because the Earths rotation is slowing down. book on 12 March 2014 in the blag. I saw a sign at a hot springs tub saying "Caution: Water is hotter than average" with water at about 39C. Then the Would it negate the need for a heat shield? How many fairies would fly around, if each fairy is born from the first laugh of a child and fairies were immortal? With less than 3 weeks between releases, releases seems to have become more regular in the beginning of 2017. Hey! What place on Earth would allow you to freefall the longest by jumping off it? This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). The others not so much. If you make the words pronounceable by always alternating vowels and consonants, the names would be about 24 letters long. Only to find that the chair I sat on converted the successful silence into a perfect, and loud, flute note. I'm curious, though, what would happen if one person had all of the world's money? We were both (luckily) amazed and surprised and I have often wondered what the odds are for something like that happening. If every country's airspace extended up forever, which country would own the largest percentage of the galaxy at any given time? How long could I stay safely at the surface? During a segment on climate change in the first presidential debate, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed that Republican President Donald Trump's plan for managing hurricanes once included dropping a nuclear weapon in one. Not with regular lasers, but with more power, you could destroy the world. What would happen if the Earth's rotation were sped up until a day only lasted one second? Hurricane Red and Hurricane Blue (which is a blue line) are playing a game of Tron, zipping in straight lines and right angles around Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. As plastic is made from oil and oil is made from dead dinosaurs, how much actual real dinosaur is there in a plastic dinosaur? If everybody in the US drove west, could we temporarily halt continental drift? Answer: The International Niagara Committee, the International Niagara Board of Control, the International Joint Commission, the International Niagara Board Working Committee, and probably the Great LakesSt. The sixth two weeks break, tenth break in total. It might sound crazy (okay, it definitely sounds crazy), but this is something serious people have put a lot of thought into. What if everything was antimatter, EXCEPT Earth? 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." What would happen if you opened a portal between Boston (sea level) and Mexico City (elev. Answer: NO!!!!! The release date in the archive is the wrong month June. coast. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. There's not really any question anymore: This is happening because the planet is getting warmer, and the planet is getting warmer because of humans. Earth would be unaffected but the human race would be wiped out due to everyone trying to get home at the same time. water. Most of the tests, however, involved either small bombs or shallow 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? [[An unlabeled map shows the region roughly between central Canada and northern Brazil. What if you strapped C4 to a boomerang? But come on. From here on standard release day was again Tuesday. 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? National Geographic says it was a meteorologist named Jack W. Reed who first pitched the idea of using nukes peacefully, by dropping them on hurricanes. If the bomb is being dropped over the ocean, nuclear waste will definitely affect that ecosystem first. 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 surrounding area would be obliterated and there would be mass panic for many following years. He served in the Philippines in 1946 and rode eight missions through typhoons inside . But just maybe as a teaser some (one) of the new from the book, might get released Only 17 days under four years after the release of #157, we finally have #158: See more details for breaks in the releases in the table with a list of all the. Instead, it blows a hole in the It includes this rather That turbulent warm water is actually quite substantial. When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British empire? His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, studded with memorable cartoons and infographics. Lighter winds outside the clouds steer them and help them grow. From my seven-year-old son: How many snowflakes would it take to cover the entire world in six feet of snow? e.g. And since currents move everything in the ocean around, radioactive fallout would not stay in one place and would definitely make it to land eventually. (The Metric System). The report also claimed that Trump had raised the possibility of bombing hurricanes with another senior administration official, as detailed in a 2017 NSC memo. Here's What Would Happen If You Nuked A Hurricane, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports. Humans have done supposedly impossible things before. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.". If you made a beach using grains the proportionate size of the stars in the Milky Way, what would that beach look like? Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. The ninth break in total. Chris Landsea, science and operations officer at the National Hurricane Center wrote (via Live Science), "About 80 of these disturbances form every year in the Atlantic basin, but only about 5 become hurricanes in a typical year. quickly-expanding spherical cavity of hot steam. In addition to the heat energy from the water, It is just like 'xkcd:volume 0' a compilation of some questions from the website, but half of them are new. What would kill me first? The book "Caesar's Last Breath" (via Vox) recounts the 1947 cloud seeding experiment on Hurricane King. They can rip off your roof, knock a tree onto your car, and break all your windows. If you could teleport to a random place of the surface of the Earth, what are the odds that you'll see signs of intelligent life? Red successfully cuts off Blue and then dies shortly thereafter. What if everyone who took the SAT guessed on every multiple-choice question? Leaving aside the legal and insurance difficulties, my daughter is keen to know the maximum speed that she could expect to attain, and how many helium balloons would be required. 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." What if all of the sun's output of visible light were bundled up into a laser-like beam that had a diameter of around 1m once it reaches Earth? Could you electrofish for a blue whale? Her kitchen had something called Bauhaus chairs, which are full of holes, approx 5-6 millimeters in diameter in both back and seat. . that engulf the forests of Indonesia, California, and the Pacific If all the axes were one axe, At least two comics coming out right after this was referencing this article. Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, More Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Water Waves Generated By Underwater Explosions, Evaluation of have been enough to strengthen it into a typhoon, much as the deep warm This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). Not in a "scatter my ashes" sense, but, like, "throw my naked corpse out the airlock" sense. Earths atmosphere is really thin compared to the radius of the Earth. If Michael Phelps could hold his breath indefinitely, how long would it take for him to reach the lowest point in the ocean and back if he swam straight down and then straight back up? A CEO on the other hand, would be in trouble. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. And since I am already feeling like Bilbo in this one, is there anything else in my pocket that would have unexpected amounts of stored energy? You are in a boat directly over the Mariana Trench. Or something else? What is the longest possible sunset you can experience while driving, assuming we are obeying the speed limit and driving on paved roads? And even hurricanes that don't post numbers like those ruin lives. From here on there is no longer any standard release days. People, in other words, have spent a good deal of time coming up with ideas for stopping hurricanes. Why not nuke a hurricane? asteroid hitting the Yucatanthe impact that killed most of the What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? the continental shelf. In that year (assuming no more comics before February 26 2017), only 8 articles where released including both 147 and this one. We still need to complete some explanations like this one: 1608: Hoverboard. After that there were five more two weeks break, one three week break (before December 11, 2014) and two releases in a row (133-134 towards the end of this period of 136 articles), where the release dates where shifted so the two came out over three weeks' time with about 1.5 weeks between them. What if people's incomes appeared around them as cash in real time? This site is not under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License like xkcd is. Any time I attempt to heat left over Chinese food in a microwave, it fails to heat completely through somewhere. Why can't we do that?" A decade or a century, depending if Facebook would still be popular. But this raised the question: could a bird deliver a standard 20" New York-style cheese pizza in a box? 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. Would it be possible for two teams in a tug-o-war to overcome the ultimate tensile strength of an iron rod and pull it apart? When (if ever) did the Sun finally set on the British Empire? typically takes the question beyond the original scope likely intended by the reader and takes it to some extreme for humorous effect. The release date in the archive is the wrong month June. (a 2000 VW Jetta TDI). The seminal work in the field of nuclear ocean waves is Water Waves Generated By Underwater Explosions, a How close could I stand to watch it? Since Death Valley is below sea level could we dig a hole to the ocean and fill it up with water? How much Force power can Yoda output?). approach Iwo Jima as a radioactive whirlwind. Printing $100 bills 24/7 for a year can make you about $200 million per year. sprawling 400-page report produced for the Department of Defense by It's just a matter of time. (Assuming the average composition of rock were maintained.). Thanks for looking at my book. Hurricanes are extremely powerful: A fully developed hurricane releases the same amount of energy as the explosion of a 10-megaton nuke every 20 minutes, the NOAA article says. Surprisingly littleespecially compared to what would happen if you put As humans learned over the last century from a wide variety of incidents, fallout is no fun. Better to just carry a sign. Randall announced his what if? 195 years. Recumbent bicycles in aerodynamic shells can go almost 40m/s, and to reach 200m/s in one would require you to use 25 times the power output. When they reached However, Trump called the site's story "ridiculous" in a tweet, adding, "I never said this. Whats the fastest way to get a hand-written letter from my place in Chicago to my mother in New Jersey? This somehow turns back time [ ] How much energy would someone flying around the Earth have to exert in order to reverse the Earth's rotation? Her 13-year-old friend would then drive the Ferrari around, while she sits in the chair enjoying uninterrupted views of the countryside. This is a list of comics featuring Nuclear weapons, nuclear bombs of any kind or mentiong of Nuclear war Randall often makes comics that refers to these kinds of weapons. The release date in the archive is the wrong year, saying 2013 instead of 2012. How would the Earth change as the water is being drained? At what numerical value would the number printed approximately equal the number of ink molecules used? Usually the center but not always and usually rice, but often it will be a small section of meat. . What do we do with this?'". How many molecules of the ink would be used? the surrounding waterthat lingers for some time. It includes hot water but I have to pay the electric bill. Granted, the Sun is much bigger, but it is also much further away, and as I learned in high school physics, the gravitational force is proportional to the square of the distance. to rapidly intensify. (In other words, how long could we chuck nukes at hurricanes until our nuclear arsenal ran out?). 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. But why would you. Dispatches from a horrifying alternate universe. If there was enough water, and if the model held up, thisblast would like. Aim carefully. What would happen if you tried to fly a normal Earth airplane above different Solar System bodies? Jack W. Reed began his military career as an Air Force meteorologist during the closing days of World War II. When I was about 8 years old, shoveling snow on a freezing day in Colorado, I wished that I could be instantly transported to the surface of the Sun, just for a nanosecond, then instantly transported back. each. Sugar: 19 story by using. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. That's scientist talk for "We are so screwed." If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would Google's data warehouse be? early, and expend most of their energy creating a narrow surf zone on How long would humanity last? Enough soda to cover Earth with ten layers of cans. If not, then we all die. As long as you don't touch strange things and you don't swim too close to the fuel rods, it would be just like a regular pool. Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. If they are radioactive, then they radiate energy. You angle your descent and grab the pole just long enough to swing around so that when you let go you're now heading back up toward the sky. How much volume would they take up and what would they look like? But after defeating the Nazis and inventing the atom bomb, scientists seemed to think anything was possible, including controlling the weather. "As far as I know, there's no serious scientist doing this at all. And also, Donald Trump allegedly threw it out there as an idea a few times while president. dinosaurs. If all the men were one man, Using nuclear weapons to destroy hurricanes is not a good idea, a US scientific agency has said, following reports that President . From here on standard release day was Tuesday. The article 137 from July 14, 2015 was about the New Horizons probe. Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee would be angry. No underwater test has involved bombs anywhere near Why can't we do that? Surprisingly fast, but beware destroying the city, and fines. On the blog, Randall, who has a degree in physics and a strong scientific background, discusses hypothetical physics questions apparently submitted by readers. From here on there seems to no longer be a standard release day for some time. Until then, perhaps the best solution is just learn to co-exist with them.". So scientists are pretty sure that nuking a hurricane would both do nothing to stop it and spread nuclear fallout around the globe. And if so, what kind of bird would it take? 65-million-year-old Chicxulub impact sitethis If set up in the rainiest place in the United States (Ketchikan, Alaska), the cost could be offset in about a century. My son (5y) asked me today: If there were a kind of a fireman's pole from the Moon down to the Earth, how long would it take to slide all the way from the Moon to the Earth? Give the signmakers some credit. In most cases this tends to heat the bowl or plate more than the food. it just under the surface. It turns out not only is that hard to help her appreciate this size, I am not at all able to explain all of the other difficulties you'd have to overcome. Biden said Trump, "has an answer for hurricanes. During the first presidential debate, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed that Republican President Donald Trump once considered detonating a nuclear device inside of a hurricane to stop it. The very first what if? No one would get a perfect score. kg. As the chunks of rock fall back But those are waves from an explosion close to the surface. Category:Hurricanes - explain xkcd. The larger fish tended to be stunned for slightly longer because of their larger surface area but I don't imagine this relationship would be maintained for very large animals. What would happen if one tried to funnel Niagara Falls through a straw? What would it be like to navigate a rowboat through a lake of mercury? What if the entire continental US was on a decreasing slope from West to East. If you suddenly began rising steadily at one foot per second, how exactly would you die? No, at least not without starving to death quickly and leaving our pets, belongings and everything else behind. First after 17 more weeks releases began again with article 141 on Tuesday January 16, 2016. 2 came out. It's baffling and has made me automatically adjust heating times to over 2 minutes. My daughter age 4.5 maintains she wants a billion-story building. 40000 people and some magic. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. What would happen if you were in a boat, plane or a submarine that got hit by lightning? Once we figure out how to almost break the laws of physics, we might be able to stop hurricanes. However, Riechelderfer understood the gravity of the idea, saying they'd wait to start nuking storms "until we know what we're doing." What if you exploded a nuclear bomb (say, the Tsar Bomba) at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? Earlier this year, Severe Tropical Storm Sanvu passed over the Mariana It then seemed to stop completely after those two, and it took more than a year (62 weeks) before #157. How dangerous is it to be in a pool during a thunderstorm? This was announced on xkcd on January 31st when the comic 2575: What If? quite as dramatic as Evin might have imagined. {{Title text: Knuth Paper-Stack Notation: Write down the number on pages. It hasn't set and it won't for thousands of years. the probability of achieving a perfect SAT score by guessing) to completely fictional questions (e.g. Using only pronounceable letter combinations, how long would names have to be to give each star in the universe a unique one word name? What path would you trace on the Earth? Crypto The rising If the Hubble telescope were aimed at the Earth, how detailed would the images be? After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f*ck? Hurricanes [] Hurricane Where-The-Hell-Is-Bermuda []. It turns out that if the waves are very large, they break Problem solved, right? Before publishing the first what if? 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? After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f*ck? That's. Is there enough energy to move the entire current human population off-planet? Yes, but you need to talk to the Russians to do it right. If it feels like there are more hurricanes these days than there were when you were a kid, and that they cause more damage, that's not you looking back on the past with rose-colored glasses. HIDDEN FEATURE: The inside of this book has words and pictures, plus a special UK foreword. Or standing in a graphite field? Possibly the Apollo Astronauts but they definitely weren't lonely. My 12-year-old daughter is proposing an interesting project. How much physical space does the internet take up? If you call a random phone number and say God bless you, what are the chances that the person who answers just sneezed? The nature of the food chain means even radioactive plankton could end up harming much larger marine life. How many bananas would you need to power a house? What if you built a siphon from the oceans on Europa to Earth? Order here! This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). Hurricane Illinois-Has-It-Too-Easy comes from somewhere to the northwest, goes through Illinois, and then back to the northwest. What took more energy, the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Apollo Mission? Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. a wonderful account of the unraveling of that mystery. You just might not be prepared for how big you will need to be dreaming. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. This memo has been declassified, but was never published. At that point, the storm had almost blown itself out and was heading away from the East Coast back out to the ocean. The story of the three wise men got me wondering: What if you did walk towards a star at a fixed speed? Would we ever generate enough power to offset the cost of the generators? The first scenarios are pretty boring. What would happen if all the bodies of water on Earth magically disappeared? Assuming the stereo is indestructible then yes. Mount Thor would allow the longest fall an-AAAAAAAAAAA What if one were to drop 3,000 bouncy balls from a seven story parking structure onto a person walking on the sidewalk below? Presuming that it is sheltered in a regular atmosphere, in some giant dome or something. Don't take any chances. It would warm a small patch of the ocean and not do much. What better weather to try to alter than hurricanes? You would have to go 200m/s. How big of a lawn would you have to have so that when you finished mowing you'd need to start over because the grass has grown? exhaustively examines and summarizes all available research about the Here's what would happen if you nuked a hurricane. This can never happen, even if we were to throw Earth at Jupiter. Coal: 24 Thisis what it looks The Great Hurricane of 1780 is estimated to have killed more than 20,000 people when it hit the Caribbean. detonated, and at 11 kilometers, the Mariana(s) Trench is the deepest What If We Nuked A Hurricane? How long could the human race survive on only cannibalism? Stopping rain from falling on something with an umbrella or a tent is boring. Stack them. I have had a particular problem for as long as I can remember. If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color? How dangerous is it, really, to be in a swimming pool in a thunderstorm? Were they lonely? The eight two weeks break, 14th break in total. I understand that the New Horizons craft used gravity assist from Jupiter to increase its speed on the way to Pluto. I use one of those old phones where you type with numbersfor example, to type "Y", you press 9 three times. what if? What about using a squirrel suit? This work is licensed under a beneath the waters of the Pacific. As a writer, I'm wondering what would be the cumulative energy of the hundreds of thousands of keystrokes required to write a novel. If they looked at our star right now, what would they see? 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? Before these massive storms had names and categories, they were still wreaking havoc. If everyone put little turbine generators on the downspouts of their houses and businesses, how much power would we generate? More details.. With close to 15 weeks this was the second longest break between articles so far. As with a lot of these answers, just don't. So during the summer of 2016, it seemed it was down to about one release every two months but then it increased. What if the mountain's base were raised to the present height of the summit, and then the whole thing were allowed to drop to the earth? But first worry about what caused the 500 MPH winds How long would it take for people to notice their weight gain if the mean radius of the world expanded by 1cm every second? From what height would you need to drop a steak for it to be cooked when it hit the ground? What would happen from the impact of the mountain falling 1 inch? before disintegrating into, in the words of the 1996 report, a mass of What's the worst thing that can happen if you misuse a pressure cooker in an ordinary kitchen? From the very edge of the atmosphere and even then it might not be fully cooked. What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? bounces back, expanding outward again. wiped out. Pages in category "Nuclear weapons" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. The article is about the slope needed to be able to coast on a bike, without using the pedals, across mainland USA. 95 minutes at the right place at the right time. Let's say the racer has to survive. Other than being a really bad idea, what effect would it have? Surely anything is possible if we put our minds to it, right, scientists? But beware of messing with the Texans. And cut down the great tree, The final six articles in this period were released on four different week days, only two of them with one week apart. The Mariner 1 has traveled much farther than Voyager 1. completely. I've been told that if the Earth were shrunk down to the size of a bowling ball, it would be smoother than said bowling ball. From here on standard release day was Thursday. There you have it. Enters from the east side of the map, wanders around the Atlantic Ocean in a . expand into a bubble 70 miles across. So, you're falling from a height above the tallest building in your town, and you don't have a parachute. And the best part is, it's all humanity's fault. What would happen if all of the rivers in the US were instantly frozen in the middle of the summer? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Would you freeze or suffocate first? How many perfect scores would there be? 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