The What If? series from Randall Munroe and Henry Reich (previously a... ...common question they receive, over and over, is " What would happen if the sun went out?" This is also a common question... ...t?" This is also a common question outside of the *strong class="match...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/16/What-If-Someone-Suddenly-Turned-the-Sun-Off/In their What If ? video series (previously at Neatorama), Randall Munroe of XKCD... ...xact, changing its orientation completely. To see what would happen, they theoretically made the Greenwi... ...too much, we'd just be in a differe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/03/The-Earth-If-It-Were-Rotated-90/When Keira was four years old, she told her father... ...couldn't be done, and turned to Randall Munroe's What If ? project (previously at Neatorama) to ask about t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/11/The-Problems-With-Building-a-Billion-Story-Building/The question for this episode of the What If? series (previously at Neatorama) was, if there were a lake on the moon, what would it be like to swim in it? Well, there is no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/24/Finding-a-Way-to-Go-Swimming-on-the-Moon/The last video we posted from the What If? series looked at the feasibility of light reaching from... ...couldn't stop thinking about even more power, and what that would do. After all, there are more powerful... ...ear explosions, but this is a thought experiment. If we could...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/03/How-to-Destroy-Planets-with-Physics/Randall Munroe of xkcd and Henry Reich of MinutePh... ...makes them ridiculously interesting. This is the What If? series . The question this week is whether we could chang... ...olor of the moon by shining a laser pointer on it if everyone on earth participated at once. The short... ...these guys looked at t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/06/The-Danger-of-Shining-Lights-from-the-Earth-Onto-the-Moon/In this episode of of the What If? series (previously at Neatorama), we get classically lit... ...and people try to change the subject. We all know what an empty glass means; we've washed a lot of them.... ...mpty glass means; we've washed a lot of them. But if you are going t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/24/The-Literal-Half-Empty-Glass/The question that came into Randall Munroe's What If? series (previously at Neatorama) specifically asked if a human could survive a nanosecond on the sun if he were teleported there and back instantly. That... ...ldn't survive long enough to get near the surface *strong cla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/03/How-Long-Could-a-Human-Survive-on-the-Sun/In a previous " What If " video, we confronted the theoretical scenario in... ...it was sent to Mars. But that made viewers wonder what that would do to Mars. We know that Mars once had... ...surface is very different from that of earth. But if...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/14/What-If-We-Sent-Our-Ocean-Water-to-Mars/Wikipedia is very different from the encyclopedias... ...that it is added to daily and edited constantly. If you were to print out the entirety of Wikipedia o... ...Wikipedia is the constant edits. Randall Munroe's What If project (previously at Neatorama) was asked how m......
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/07/09/A-Paper-Analog-of-Wikipedia-Would-Be-Ridiculous-and-Unmanageable/