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What If? 2
- Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Publisher's Summary
WHAT IF...one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions.
The Sunday Times best-selling author and xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask.
The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger.
Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking to the landing.
Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer doors at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics.
Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-storey building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.
Welcome (back) to the mind-blowing world of What If?
Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers' questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.
Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, What If? 2 is sure to be another instant classic adored by inquisitive listeners of all ages.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-09-2022
Amazing book
Highly recommend this to anyone interested, one of my favorite books ever, funny and easy to follow.
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- Ding
- 11-03-2023
Funny and entertaining
Great book. It's funny, entertaining and informational to a certain extent. Will Wheaton did a great job narrating.
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- Shane
- 14-06-2023
Good, but What If it was as good as the first!
Just couldn’t laugh as hard as I did in the first! Cheers for the fun book that I will continue recommending to my friends!
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