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...

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...

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...

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...

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......

Randall Munroe's What If ? project (previously at Neatorama) received a que...  ...tical question, so it may as well go to Mars. But if we made the hole big enough to really drain seawa...

We've spent more than 100 years illuminating the d...  ...s got bigger and more automatic. Randall Munroe's What If series (previously at Neatorama) received the question,...  ...(previously at Neatorama) received the question, " If all humans died, when would the last light go out...  ...r than you might think....

Randall Munroe of xkcd spends an awful lot of time...  ...rain power answering theoretical questions in his What If? series (previously at Neatorama). For example, one quest...  ...usly at Neatorama). For example, one question is " If every country's airspace extended up forever, whi...  ...of learning. In the v...

A nuclear storage pool is also called a spent fuel...  ...how dangerous is it? In the latest episode of his What If? series (previously at Neatorama), Randall Munroe collabo...  ...is hypothetical question. You may be surprised at what they learned about nuclear storage pools as they...  ...tty regular basis to...

Do you recall that old joke about NASA spending mi...  ...of space, while the Soviets used a pencil? That's what I thought of when Zach Wheeler suggested using la...  ...ience, so Randall Munroe tackled this one in his " What If?" series (previously at Neatorama). The opening sequence a...  ...ity of the idea, b...