What if I made a lava lamp out of real lava? How great would all of these things be? We were both (luckily) amazed and surprised and I have often wondered what the odds are for something like that happening. If they are radioactive, then they radiate energy. The debris takes Repeat. 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. 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." The result of the above is that over the first 144 weeks 136 articles where released with never more than 3 weeks between releases. By Luke Darby. But it would be the same problem with nukes. (including inside apartments). Biden said Trump, "has an answer for hurricanes. 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. 6, but they would cost much more than you could afford. "As far as I know, there's no serious scientist doing this at all. petrified wood mixed with sand buried beneath the Louisiana and Texas But why would you. The reason for this you can read at the Editor FAQ . How much physical space does the internet take up? And the best part is, it's all humanity's fault. When (if ever) did the Sun finally set on the British Empire? What a great splish-splash that would be! detonated, and at 11 kilometers, the Mariana(s) Trench is the deepest Trench. What do we do with this?'" There is an easy way to link to a given what if? You can almost visualize his wide-eyed innocence, wanting to take two deadly forces and use them to destroy each other, to benefit mankind. briefly glows the magma of the mantle. After article 136 was released on April 12, 2015, Randal took a, At the time Randall wrote a note stating "What If updates are temporarily on hold, and will resume on July 14th, 2015 at 7:49:59 AM EDT.". I used to work on a fisheries crew where we would use an electro-fisher backpack to momentarily stun small fish (30 - 100 mm length) so we could scoop them up with nets to identify and measure them. I know that stirring does help to cool down the tea, but what if I were to stir it faster? At least two comics coming out right after this was referencing this article. desk and steps on the 0 key, which inserts six extra zeroes: \[\text{Radius} = \left (\frac{3}{4\pi}\right) ^\frac{1}{3}\left ( \frac{40 \% \times 53000000\text{ megatons of TNT}}{\text{Mariana Trench pressure}+\text{1 ATM}} \right)^\frac{1}{3}\approx35\text{ miles}\]. near future, and outlined the potential military uses and dangers of I'm curious, though, what would happen if one person had all of the world's money? of 200-300 miles inland, whichever limit is reached first.. 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. After acknowledging that the question has been answered elsewhere, he recaps the result, but then focuses more intently on the unasked resulting issue of the aftermath of everyone on Earth being magically transported to one location as they all try to return home. What changes could be made to our diets for the amount of calories to equal the energy of the Sun? How close would you have to be to a supernova to get a lethal dose of neutrino radiation? What do we do with this?'". Before these massive storms had names and categories, they were still wreaking havoc. }}, xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 31 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS, https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/log_scale.png, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Various Theoretical Models For Underwater The explosion at the bottom of the Mariana Trench will create a If you make the words pronounceable by always alternating vowels and consonants, the names would be about 24 letters long. Yes, but you need to talk to the Russians to do it right. Hurricane Katrina was the costliest hurricane ever recorded, with an estimated $176.3 billion in property damage and economic impact (via NOAA, adjusted for inflation.) have been enough to strengthen it into a typhoon, much as the deep warm In the first Superman movie, Superman flies around Earth so fast that it begins turning in the opposite direction. 0 618: Asteroid 696: Strip Games 786: Exoplanets 809: Los Alamos Dispatches from a horrifying alternate universe. book on 12 March 2014 in the blag. off the North American coast: Quantitative study of the destructive That's scientist talk for "We are so screwed." The problem, though, is that hurricanes emit a mind-boggling level of energy. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). What height would humans reach if we kept growing through our whole development period (i.e. But come on. Could you get drunk from drinking a drunk person's blood? effects has not been made. Explanation []. They're so huge, they're so powerful." This new release is probably due to the upcoming release of the What If? 8000+ feet)? And mess they did. In the absence of an On June 1, Democratic Texas Representative Sylvia Garcia introduced the Climate Change and Hurricane Correlation and Strategy Act, which would explicitly prohibit the president or any other federal agency official from using a nuclear bomb or other "strategic weapon" to alter weather patterns or addressing climate change. The rising The release date in the archive is the wrong year 2014. What if a spacecraft slowed down on re-entry to just a few miles per hour using rocket boosters like the Mars-sky-crane? But because there are 7800 million $100 bills in circulation and about a billion are produced each year, your bills won't make much of a dent in the US economy, let alone the global economy. Those storms don't even get names, so they can't be that big a deal. Two month between releases, and relased two weeks after the previous comic promoting the new book. Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist at Colorado State's University's Tropical Meteorology Project, was talking about the U.S. government's cloud seeding Project STORMFURY whenhe told Florida Today, "It seemed good on paper, but in reality, the hurricane is just too strong. Surely NOAA would tell people to dream big? What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world? Liquid tungsten? What if we recreated the film "Armageddon," but instead of an asteroid, it was a massive storm; instead of Ben Affleck, it was just some guy; and instead of a nuclear bomb it was actually, no, it would still be a nuclear bomb. Which has a greater gravitational pull on me: the Sun, or spiders? (Also, Randall misspelled Bethlehem). . What took more energy, the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Apollo Mission? Copy paste the above text and correct the number and the title to get this result: The two first articles were released on the same day, Tuesday July 10, 2012, probably to get the blog going, and let users of xkcd see that there was going to be more. Again. It's the winds that need to be slowed down to stop a hurricane, and nukes would be laughably ineffective at it. In the UK edition of the book, Randall included a preface about his thoughts on the units used in the UK. is a blog hosted on the xkcd.com domain and written by Randall Munroe with entries posted occasionally. Some words have consecutive letters on the same number. Hurricanes are definitely worse than they used to be. With a bigger bomb, it could destroy the world. Crypto Hurricanes are some of the scariest, deadliest, most costly weather events on Earth. the coast, the waves would be no worse than those from a bad storm. What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop? What is the longest possible sunset you can experience while driving, assuming we are obeying the speed limit and driving on paved roads? the surrounding waterthat lingers for some time. What if everyone who took the SAT guessed on every multiple-choice question? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Assuming you had a good coat, you would survive to the death zone and die. I just moved into a new apartment. Biking at that speed would make your body generate so much heat your core temperature would reach fatal levels in seconds. Around the early 1990s, scientists started discovering jumbled fields of 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. 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. 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? If the explosion Weather Bureau (the forerunner of the National Weather Service), Francis W. Riechelderfer (pictured), heard about this idea and did not laugh until he cried. 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? Assuming that you have a spaceship in orbit around the Earth, could you propel your ship to speeds exceeding escape velocity by hitting golf balls in the other direction? Jack W. Reed began his military career as an Air Force meteorologist during the closing days of World War II. 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. What would it be like to navigate a rowboat through a lake of mercury? 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 hole fills in, with huge columns of steam and great Would you freeze or suffocate first? 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. 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? {{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. convulsions. At 53 megatons, the Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, and at 11 kilometers, the Mariana (s) Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. to rapidly intensify. Hurricane Where-the-Hell-Is-Bermuda enters from the east side of the map, wanders around the Atlantic in a scribble, goes north for a while, and then peters out. I've often joked I'd like to have my remains put into orbit. What would be the most expensive way to fill a size 11 shoebox (e.g. It hasn't set and it won't for thousands of years. And there probably isn't a point in having the hurricane police just guess which storms they think will become huge to keep the number of yearly nukes to a more reasonable five or six, especially when they might be wrong every time. "Needless to say, this is not a good idea.". Sugar: 19 A tropical cyclone is a generic term for a low-pressure system that formed over tropical waters (25S to 25N) with thunderstorm activity near the center of its closed, cyclonic winds. If not, then we all die. It's very unpromising. This is potentially hazardous to some ships, but 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? "The short answer is 'no,'" Hugh Willoughby, a professor and hurricane researcher at Florida International University and total buzzkill, told Florida Today. The world just has too many people. The surrounding area would be obliterated and there would be mass panic for many following years. At what numerical value would the number printed approximately equal the number of ink molecules used? Rough estimates indicate that the inundation What would happen if the Moon were replaced with an equivalently-massed black hole? The eight two weeks break, 14th break in total. What would happen if all the bodies of water on Earth magically disappeared? The majority of the worlds plants die and the food chain collapses At what speed would you have to drive for rain to shatter your windshield? How fast would I have to bike for my skin to warm up the way a spacecraft heats up during reentry? like. James P. Kossin, a researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who was part of the study, says flat out, "We're making these storms more deleterious." '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 . less than enough energy to microwave a burrito. With less than 3 weeks between releases, releases seems to have become more regular in the beginning of 2017. 2 Countdown. This came out after a three week countdown revealing the image from the cover of the new book over 136 frames released with about 4 hours between each frame. If one randomly chosen extra person were to die each second somewhere on Earth, what impact would it have on the world population? As the first two were released on week 1, this means that there were 134 articles released over the next 143 weeks, meaning there were only 9 weeks without an article. Once we figure out how to almost break the laws of physics, we might be able to stop hurricanes. What would happen if all of the rivers in the US were instantly frozen in the middle of the summer? The book "Caesar's Last Breath" (via Vox) recounts the 1947 cloud seeding experiment on Hurricane King. This second article was released on the same day as the first, probably to get the blog going, and let users of xkcd see that there was going to be more. How fast would you have to go in your car to run a red light claiming that it appeared green to you due to the Doppler Effect? I figured this would be long enough to warm me up but not long enough to harm me. If you have a good arm, you could probably throw this book about 45 feet. 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. As gravity slows you and brings you to a halt, you reach the top of the skyscraper, where you reach out and pull yourself to safety. goes with citing temperature records and other trivia actually naming a Jeopardy master. ", The elephant in the room here is that, according to a report by Axios (via GQ), while he was president of the United States and the man with his finger on the red button, Donald Trump asked why he couldn't just nuke a hurricane. wiped out. From here on there is no longer any standard release days. Surprisingly littleespecially compared to what would happen if you put 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. If there was enough water, and if the model held up, thisblast would Could you electrofish for a blue whale? Fortunately for the coast, these waves are fundamentally different from ocean waves created by nuclear explosions. How long would it take for the population of the world to read them all out loud? Problem solved, right? Actually, it would be more clean than it is currently! It would be vapourized before it got close to the Sun. If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would Google's data warehouse be? a wonderful account of the unraveling of that mystery. Since then only three more articles were released in 2016, the first two with about 8 weeks between them and then more than 12 weeks. 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. Evin isnt the first person to think of setting off nuclear weapons Even at the time, experts were divided on whether the cloud seeding had caused the hurricane's seemingly impossible redirection. What would actually happen? Is there any way to fire a gun so that the bullet flies through the air and can then be safely caught by hand? That's more than 666 times bigger than the "Little Boy" bomb that the US dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. Absolutely! So during the summer of 2016, it seemed it was down to about one release every two months but then it increased. "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. The release day was fixed to once a week on a given weekday, except for a few articles that were delayed a day (or two) in one week, but then next week's article would again be released on the normal day. The culprit was a comet or A bizarre 60-year-old idea to fight hurricanes using nuclear weapons resurfaced this week after Axios reported that President Trump raised the possibility with his national security advisors.. What if you were flashing your BIOS during a thunderstorm and you got hit by lightning? happens near the surface, it can create some pretty big wavesunder some Dotted lines indicating hurricane paths cover the map, all red except where noted. For the answer, the universe would be destroyed. 70% of the time you would end up in the ocean. When they do, you have to pause between letters, making those words annoying to type. part of the ocean. Partway down the side of that skyscraper there's a flagpole sticking out, sans flag! 48,364 views Sep 26, 2019 1.4K Dislike Share Science Insider 2.24M subscribers Dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane is a decades-old idea for how to stop a. When they reached The heat release is equivalent. With the announced release of the what if? It's annoying biking in the wintertime, because it's so cold. Better to just carry a sign. That's. When a stack fits, write the number of iterations on a card. Now I've realized that a flamethrower is impractical, but what about a high-powered microwave emitter? It turns out that if the waves are very large, they break Since rainbows are caused by the refraction of the sunlight by tiny droplets of rainwater, what would rainbow look like on Earth if we had two suns like Tatooine? No one would get a perfect score. Not in a "scatter my ashes" sense, but, like, "throw my naked corpse out the airlock" sense. My 4 year old son and I were wondering about soccer ball sized hail today. There is a water average. Luckily for the coast, later research paints a less dire picture. My daughter recently received her driver's permit in the US, and aspires to visit mainland Europe someday. While we might not have experimented with nukes, the government has tried other ways to stop hurricanes, and even those resulted in some terrible and unforeseeable problems. This was announced on xkcd on January 31st when the comic 2575: What If? Order here! As with a lot of these answers, just don't. The Sun. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. Suppose you were to print, in 12 point text, the numeral 1 using a common cheap ink-jet printer. Weather Bureau said he could "imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb. 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is out! From here on standard release day was Tuesday. 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.". From what height would you need to drop a steak for it to be cooked when it hit the ground? She is planning to attach a number of helium balloons to a chair, which in turn would be tethered by means of a rope to a Ferrari. 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. As plastic is made from oil and oil is made from dead dinosaurs, how much actual real dinosaur is there in a plastic dinosaur? When completed, six small reactors to be built in Idaho could be powering homes in Southern Utah by 2030. 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. If I shot an infinitely strong laser beam into the sky at a random point, how much damage would it do? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? But scientists know they don't know everything and that is even scarier. memo from his father, and was kind enough to show it to me. Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? Why don't we nuke them? 195 years. The bubble grows to about a kilometer across in a couple of seconds. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. In most cases this tends to heat the bowl or plate more than the food. My daughter age 4.5 maintains she wants a billion-story building. with 64 GB MicroSD cards all full of legally purchased music)? It includes this rather the probability of achieving a perfect SAT score by guessing) to completely fictional questions (e.g. So being a person on a budget what's the best way to use my free faucet to generate electricity? Randall announced his what if? What would happen if the Earth's rotation were sped up until a day only lasted one second? This warm water creates humid air, which then gets thrust upwards by tropical winds to create storm clouds. What would happen if one tried to funnel Niagara Falls through a straw? How quickly would the ocean's drain if a circular portal 10 meters in radius leading into space was created at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in the ocean? 30 years to walk, much longer for the sentence. the last is devastating. 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? If you wanted to anchor an airplane into the ground so it wouldn't be able to take off, what would the rope have to be made out of? Explosion. Would we ever generate enough power to offset the cost of the generators? (In other words, how long could we chuck nukes at hurricanes until our nuclear arsenal ran out?). I was absentmindedly stirring a cup of hot tea, when I got to thinking, "aren't I actually adding kinetic energy into this cup?" less than an hour to encircle the Earth. In the memo, one of the eight ideas Freeman discusses is the use of Humanity would survive if the robots cared about keeping themselves alive as well. Second two months break of at least two in a row, the 16th break in total. Liquid gallium? Probably not. Also, it would be many times the distance the Earth is from the Moon. The basic idea goes like this-the Pentagon should bomb the eye of a tropical storm, thereby dispersing it and saving countless lives and millions of dollars. Why not nuke a hurricane? Evin's scenario concerns neither. We would see a variety of benefits across our lives but we would also freeze and die. Not much. So, you're falling from a height above the tallest building in your town, and you don't have a parachute. For that matter, which war has the highest movie time:war time ratio? 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