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‘What If’ Series
Just a few of my favorites:
- What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?
- What would it be like to navigate a rowboat through a lake of mercury? What about bromine? Liquid gallium? Liquid tungsten? Liquid nitrogen? Liquid helium?
- What if I took a swim in a typical spent nuclear fuel pool? Would I need to dive to actually experience a fatal amount of radiation? How long could I stay safely at the surface?
- Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns?
- In Armageddon, a NASA guy comments that a plan to shoot a laser at the asteroid is like “shooting a b.b. gun at a freight train.” What would it take to stop an out-of-control freight train using only b.b. guns?
- 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?
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Wisdom of the Ancients
Citogenesis
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Occulting Telescope
The General Problem
MTV Generation
November
Alternative Literature
The Important Field
Delta-P
Everything
Prairie
Jet Fuel
Elements
Dorm Poster
X11
The Corliss Resolution
Eternal Flame
Subliminal
Caroling
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T-Cells
Days of the Week
Time Vulture
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Ages
Religions
Number Line
Chain of Command
Movie Ages
Heaven
Future Timeline
Pain Rating
2009 Called
Milk
1999
Consecutive Vowels
World According to Americans
Misconceptions
Coupon Code
Tic-Tac-Toe
Arsenic-Based Life
Guest Week: Bill Amend (FoxTrot)
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Los Alamos
Tech Support
Airfoil
Online Communities 2
Golden Hammer
Adjectives
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Conditional Risk
Password Reuse
Control
I Don’t Want Directions
Ahead Stop
University Website
All the Girls
1996
DFS
Southern Half
Phobia
Worst-Case Scenario
Cemetery
Floor
Eagle
Desert Island
Circuit Diagram
Computer Problems
Brain Worms
Numbers
Porn For Women
Single Ladies
Joshing
Freedom
Devotion to Duty
Complexion
Strip Games
Semicontrolled Demolition
Dimensional Analysis
G-Spot
We Get It
Gravity Wells
Revolutionary
Natural Parenting
Spinal Tap Amps
Silent Hammer
iPhone or Droid
Sympathy
Movie Narrative Charts
Bag Check
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Scary
Creepy
The Search
Brontosaurus
Anatomy Text
Collections
Superlative
Supported Features
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Extrapolating
Idiocracy
Game Theory
Period
Designated Drivers
CNR
The Race: Part 4
Together
New Car
Security Question
Fermirotica
1000 Times
Not Enough Work
Correlation
Kindle
Simple
Neutrality Schmeutrality
Pep Talk
TED Talk
Base System
It Might Be Cool
I’m An Idiot
I Know You’re Listening
Decline
Google Trends
Cuttlefish
11th Grade
Flow Charts
No One Must Know
Egg Drop Failure
Experimentation
Election
Secretary: Part 3
Going West
Height
Typewriter
Regrets
Frustration
Cautionary
Impostor
Things Fall Apart
Too Old For This Shit
In Popular Culture
I Am Not Good with Boomerangs
Macgyver Gets Lazy
SUV
xkcd Goes to the Airport
Fantasy
Fortune Cookies
Finish Line
Jealousy
Stove Ownership
Mistranslations
Venting
Ultimate Game
Duty Calls
Network
Close to You
Fight
Mattress
Getting Out of Hand
Photoshops
Indecision
Turing Test
Exploits of a Mom
A-Minus-Minus
Ballmer Peak
Loud Sex
Dating Pools
Interesting Life
Orphaned Projects
Rule 34
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Alone
Wikipedian Protester
Projection
Fixed Width
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Linux User at Best Buy
Merlin
Choices: Part 5
Certainty
Online Communities
Escalators
Snopes
Dream Girl
Pet Peeve #114
Collecting Double-Takes
A New CAPTCHA Approach
Chess Enlightenment
Cat Proximity
Graffiti
Hallucinations
Christmas GPS
Right-Hand Rule
Perspective
Command Line Fu
Map of the Internet
The Perfect Sound
IPoD
The Familiar
Canada
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Not Really Into Pokemon
That’s What SHE Said
String Theory
Reverse Euphemisms
Nihilism
Donald Knuth
Angular Momentum
Boombox
Search History
Beliefs
Hamster Ball
Sandwich
Dreams
Science Fair
Substitute
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Marketing Interview
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City
Baring My Heart
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