exhaustively examines and summarizes all available research about the A normal person would not get buried. The area is now marked by a 100-kilometer-wide scar of magma sizzling It is almost a year ago that two comics have been released with less than two full weeks between them (that was #147 released February 26, 2016). 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? It was released. 2 came out. What would happen if one tried to funnel Niagara Falls through a straw? During the first presidential debate, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed that Republican President Donald Trump once considered detonating a nuclear device inside of a hurricane to stop it. Thanks for looking at my book. No, but it does make some really cool patterns. What if the entire continental US was on a decreasing slope from West to East. 2 book. NOAA says the idea is still popular,noting on their official website, "During each hurricane season, there always appear suggestions that one should simply use nuclear weapons to try and destroy the storms.". If a T-rex were released in New York City, how many humans/day would it need to consume to get its needed calorie intake? has not stopped but the first comic in 2017 (#153, January 30, 2017) came almost 15 weeks after the last in 2016, more than three months between releases. Stack them. In the first Superman movie, Superman flies around Earth so fast that it begins turning in the opposite direction. She has learned enough about the rules of the road to know never to drive into the ocean; however, she jokingly suggested that given a sufficient quantity of rental cars, she could eventually get to Europe by driving east repeatedly. Ever since J. Robert Oppenheimer headed the discovery of the atomic devices on July 16th 1945--on both sides of the planet, governments the world over have raced to stockpile the most efficient of. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely? When they reached 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. What would be the most expensive way to fill a size 11 shoebox (e.g. Better to just carry a sign. . I have had a particular problem for as long as I can remember. If it's possible, what would a lunar ("holar"?) During this lovely dinner I was forced to liberate a small portion of wind and was relieved that I managed to do so very discretely. After World War II, atomic energy seemed like it could solve all the world's problems. How dangerous is it to be in a pool during a thunderstorm? The release date in the archive is the wrong month June. Evin isnt the first person to think of setting off nuclear weapons What percentage of the Sun's heat (per day) does the population of Earth eat in calories per year? It includes hot water but I have to pay the electric bill. No, not even if we change the requirements to just the passengers staying alive. 65-million-year-old Chicxulub impact sitethis Uranium: 76 000 000 From what height would you need to drop a steak for it to be cooked when it hit the ground? Using only pronounceable letter combinations, how long would names have to be to give each star in the universe a unique one word name? completely. If you suddenly began rising steadily at one foot per second, how exactly would you die? Freemans son, science historian George Dyson, got a paper copy of the (In other words, how long could we chuck nukes at hurricanes until our nuclear arsenal ran out?). Hey! The world just has too many people. firestorms. the probability of achieving a perfect SAT score by guessing) to completely fictional questions (e.g. ", 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. NOAA. In the absence of an Are scientists even working on inventing nuclear powered anti-hurricane fans? The others not so much. Not in a "scatter my ashes" sense, but, like, "throw my naked corpse out the airlock" sense. The Sun. The hole fills in, with huge columns of steam and great Does it converge to a fixed cycle? How many bananas would you need to power a house? Second and longest break so far of two long breaks in a row, the 12th break in total. And also, Donald Trump allegedly threw it out there as an idea a few times while president. Never use the Math markup language at the transcript. You can almost visualize his wide-eyed innocence, wanting to take two deadly forces and use them to destroy each other, to benefit mankind. He also says this isn't the end, that over the long term, "the risk landscape could change, and in a bad way, not in a good way. book on 12 March 2014 in the blag. What a great man that would be! Later he released a different countdown with comic 2636: What If? 30 years to walk, much longer for the sentence. early, and expend most of their energy creating a narrow surf zone on Nuking hurricanes is in line with his long-held fascination with and trust in nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Most of the time it would not hit anyhing. What would the world be like if the land masses were spread out the same way as now - only rotated by an angle of 90 degrees? They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. that size, nor depths anywhere near that deep. What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place? Surprisingly fast, but beware destroying the city, and fines. wiped out. 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. Red successfully cuts off Blue and then dies shortly thereafter. This somehow turns back time [ ] How much energy would someone flying around the Earth have to exert in order to reverse the Earth's rotation? If cows could photosynthesize, how much less food would they need? What could I use as a clear medium? No one would get a perfect score. before disintegrating into, in the words of the 1996 report, a mass of At what point in human history were there too many (English) books to be able to read them all in one lifetime? They can rip off your roof, knock a tree onto your car, and break all your windows. 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. Surely NOAA would tell people to dream big? If the Hubble telescope were aimed at the Earth, how detailed would the images be? The culprit was a comet or The heat release is equivalent. Bernard Le Mehaute and Shen Wang. Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. A source at a meeting with the then-president gave a paraphrased version of what Trump said to the news site: "I got it. No, at least not without starving to death quickly and leaving our pets, belongings and everything else behind. All that changes when this cat enters the equation: Lets say that when Im typing the above equation, the cat hops onto my It found that every 10 years for the past four decades, "the likelihood of a hurricane developing into a major one of Category 3 or higher, with sustained winds greater than 110 miles an hour, [increased] by about 8% a decade." The result of the above is that over the first 144 weeks 136 articles where released with never more than 3 weeks between releases. Astrophysicists are always saying things like "This mission to this comet is equivalent to throwing a baseball from New York and hitting a particular window in San Francisco." Humanity would survive if the robots cared about keeping themselves alive as well. it gets, we can try a formula from the 1971 paper Evaluation of With today's technology, would it be possible to launch an unmanned mission to retrieve Voyager I? My daughter recently received her driver's permit in the US, and aspires to visit mainland Europe someday. 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. How would the Earth change as the water is being drained? It's baffling and has made me automatically adjust heating times to over 2 minutes. But the winds of a hurricane can destroy anything, on any level. 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. It would be vapourized before it got close to the Sun. e.g. 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? it would split into many islands and the Netherlands will take over. What place on Earth would allow you to freefall the longest by jumping off it? From here on there seems to no longer be a standard release day for some time. This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 02:47. Around the early 1990s, scientists started discovering jumbled fields of The majority of the worlds plants die and the food chain collapses This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). What if the Earth were made entirely of protons, and the Moon were made entirely of electrons? What height would humans reach if we kept growing through our whole development period (i.e. In the memo, one of the eight ideas Freeman discusses is the use of Suppose you were to print, in 12 point text, the numeral 1 using a common cheap ink-jet printer. If there was enough water, and if the model held up, thisblast would Recumbent bicycles in aerodynamic shells can go almost 40m/s, and to reach 200m/s in one would require you to use 25 times the power output. 95 minutes at the right place at the right time. It would be too bright to watch and it would turn into rock quickly. The finger holes would collapse and then not much would happen. But as the '50s turned to the '60s, more and more people began to realize the weapons contained inherent dangers and harms. (Assuming the average composition of rock were maintained.). ", "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting," the source told Axios. The problem is, we already know there would be no point. How much would the sea level fall if every ship were removed all at once from the Earth's waters? What would happen if you were taking a shower or standing under a waterfall when you were struck by lightning? The ninth break in total. What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? (The Metric System). How many fairies would fly around, if each fairy is born from the first laugh of a child and fairies were immortal? no wave of any consequence will be generated.. kg. Yup, we can thank climate change for deadlier hurricanes. Thisis what it looks Yes, but you need to talk to the Russians to do it right. Actually, it would be more clean than it is currently! 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. The report also claimed that Trump had raised the possibility of bombing hurricanes with another senior administration official, as detailed in a 2017 NSC memo. 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.". Gasoline: 46 After this less orderly period there came a period of 10 weeks in a row with 10 releases starting on January 1, 2015. How much damage would a hail storm with size 5 soccer ball sized hail do? Some words have consecutive letters on the same number. There is a water average. What would happen if you were in a boat, plane or a submarine that got hit by lightning? I figured this would be long enough to warm me up but not long enough to harm me. 6, but they would cost much more than you could afford. Also, it would be many times the distance the Earth is from the Moon. What better weather to try to alter than hurricanes? Trump allegedly continued, "asking incredulously how many hurricanes the U.S. could handle." How many flyby runs would it take to stop Jupiter completely? This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). If you drop a 7kg bowling ball over the side, how long would it take to hit the bottom? 0 618: Asteroid 696: Strip Games 786: Exoplanets 809: Los Alamos This is a list of comics featuring Nuclear weapons, nuclear bombs of any kind or mentiong of Nuclear war Randall often makes comics that refers to these kinds of weapons. What if you strapped C4 to a boomerang? If you stripped away all the rules of car racing and had a contest which was simply to get a human being around a track 200 times as fast as possible, what strategy would win? If set up in the rainiest place in the United States (Ketchikan, Alaska), the cost could be offset in about a century. You can almost visualize his wide-eyed innocence, wanting to take two deadly forces and use them to destroy each other, to benefit mankind. But why would you. From the very edge of the atmosphere and even then it might not be fully cooked. If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive? Granted, the Sun is much bigger, but it is also much further away, and as I learned in high school physics, the gravitational force is proportional to the square of the distance. At least two comics coming out right after this was referencing this article. The website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. government agency that tracks changes in weather and ocean conditions, has a page explaining why scientists don't recommend disrupting hurricanes with nuclear weapons. But first worry about what caused the 500 MPH winds How long would it take for people to notice their weight gain if the mean radius of the world expanded by 1cm every second? The destruction hurricanes leave in their wake is epic. More details.. But beware of messing with the Texans. Once we figure out how to almost break the laws of physics, we might be able to stop hurricanes. Answer: NO!!!!! Would it negate the need for a heat shield? For over 20 years, from 1962 to 1983, the fabulously named Project STORMFURY used simulations, as well as four actual hurricanes as test subjects, to see if cloud seeding with silver iodine would reduce a major storm even a little. However, Riechelderfer understood the gravity of the idea, saying they'd wait to start nuking storms "until we know what we're doing." 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. The Mariner 1 has traveled much farther than Voyager 1. It goes through three or four cycles of this collapse and expansion What if you were changing the light at the top of a radio tower and lightning struck? From here on there is no longer any standard release days. It was published on September 2, 2014, and the UK edition of the book was published on September 4, 2014. When they do, you have to pause between letters, making those words annoying to type. From here on standard release day was Tuesday. Hurricanes emit a mind-boggling amount of energy. This was announced on xkcd on January 31st when the comic 2575: What If? Since then there was no new posts for almost four years. 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? This work is licensed under a much less catastrophic than a direct nuclear attack. With practice, it's possible to throw a book every 800 milliseconds, which means that if human attackers are sprinting towards you, you'll have three or four chances to hit them before they reach you. What would happen if I dug straight down, at a speed of 1 foot per second? pressure from that six miles of water overhead causes it to collapse. What path would you trace on the Earth? This work is licensed under a This is potentially hazardous to some ships, but Obviously, my boyfriend had to go without pizza until he landed at JFK. This has become known as the Countdown in header text, see all details on that page. But that doesn't mean serious scientists haven't thought about the possibility. In most cases this tends to heat the bowl or plate more than the food. . When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British empire? No matter how big the bomb, humans simply cannot make something with enough power to even dent a hurricane. How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the Sun? But spiders are a lot more scary. less than an hour to encircle the Earth. But it would be the same problem with nukes. Luckily for the coast, later research paints a less dire picture. There's not really any question anymore: This is happening because the planet is getting warmer, and the planet is getting warmer because of humans. All incomplete explanations are here . of 200-300 miles inland, whichever limit is reached first.. From here on standard release day was Thursday. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License, fall into Jupiter's atmosphere in a submarine, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if&oldid=304504. The third two weeks Christmas break, the seventh break in total. First two months break of at least two in a row, the 15th break in total. How much of the Earth's currently-existing water has ever been turned into a soft drink at some point in its history? Is there any way to fire a gun so that the bullet flies through the air and can then be safely caught by hand? off the North American coast: Quantitative study of the destructive 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." "Needless to say, this is not a good idea.". Give the signmakers some credit. This site is not under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License like xkcd is. How long could the human race survive on only cannibalism? Partway down the side of that skyscraper there's a flagpole sticking out, sans flag! Unlike the last article, out after almost a 15 weeks break, this one was released only a bit more than week after that. 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. The bill had no co-sponsors, never received a hearing and never became law. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. My boyfriend recently took a flight on a plane with wifi, and while he was up there, wistfully asked if I could send him a pizza. But scientists know they don't know everything and that is even scarier. In the UK edition of the book, Randall included a preface about his thoughts on the units used in the UK. If everyone put little turbine generators on the downspouts of their houses and businesses, how much power would we generate? guns? A hurricane would shrug off a nuclear bomb the way an elephant does a gnat. 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? ", Still, we shouldn't stop people from dreaming. A 2016 National Geographic article also explained that detonating a nuke inside a hurricane could violate the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union (now Russia), possibly increasing the arms race tensions between the two countries. 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is out! Reed wasn't worried about fallout. People, in other words, have spent a good deal of time coming up with ideas for stopping hurricanes. No underwater test has involved bombs anywhere near that size, nor depths anywhere near that deep. Let's say the racer has to survive. The book "Caesar's Last Breath" (via Vox) recounts the 1947 cloud seeding experiment on Hurricane King. Sanvu could whip up a spray containing fallout from the blast, and If every country's airspace extended up forever, which country would own the largest percentage of the galaxy at any given time? But after defeating the Nazis and inventing the atom bomb, scientists seemed to think anything was possible, including controlling the weather. Or something else? Humans have done supposedly impossible things before. Whats the fastest way to get a hand-written letter from my place in Chicago to my mother in New Jersey? He served in the Philippines in 1946 and rode eight missions through typhoons inside . A decade or a century, depending if Facebook would still be popular. Interesting to see if they will begin appearing regularly again during the spring of 2017, as seems possible with three articles in less than a month and #156 was again released with less than two weeks between it and #155. And let if [sic] fall into the great sea, When a stack fits, write the number of iterations on a card. How steep would the slope have to be to sustain the momentum needed to ride a bicycle the entire distance without pedaling? Not much. You are in a boat directly over the Mariana Trench. What would happen if the Moon were replaced with an equivalently-massed black hole? If you went outside and lay down on your back with your mouth open, how long would you have to wait until a bird pooped in it? In terms of human-made objects, has Voyager 1 travelled the farthest distance? Second time with less than two weeks between release in 2017. improbable typhoon interaction, the overall effect of the bomb isnt Could a (small) rocket (with payload) be lifted to a high point in the atmosphere where it would only need a small rocket to get to escape velocity? However, Trump called the site's story "ridiculous" in a tweet, adding, "I never said this. There is no way to tell in advance which ones will develop." And the best part is, it's all humanity's fault. I heard that bananas are radioactive. Business, Economics, and Finance. Using nuclear weapons to destroy hurricanes is not a good idea, a US scientific agency has said, following reports that President . Order here! you would not be warmed if you went to the surface. Since 2014, there's also a book of the blog. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). How far would a tungsten countertop descend if I dropped it into the Sun? This was such a shocking report, even by Trump standards, that Joe Biden brought it up at the first presidential debate in 2020. produces a cavity of hot gasses, which then collapses. It turns out the ramp would need to be five miles high (8 km) to make this possible, and that would be at a speed slower than walking. Hurricane Freud starts in the Gulf of Mexico, draws a set of balls to Florida's cock, and then comes on land and stops. We kept the chairs for five years but despite laborious attempts it couldn't be reproduced. rim. Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee would be angry. Presuming that it is sheltered in a regular atmosphere, in some giant dome or something. And if so, what kind of bird would it take? Earlier this year, Severe Tropical Storm Sanvu passed over the Mariana But what if we could stop a hurricane in its tracks? The larger fish tended to be stunned for slightly longer because of their larger surface area but I don't imagine this relationship would be maintained for very large animals. With a bigger bomb, it could destroy the world. Hurricanes cause destruction in lots of ways, but the big one is wind. Hurricane Illinois-Has-It-Too-Easy comes from somewhere to the northwest, goes through Illinois, and then back to the northwest. with 64 GB MicroSD cards all full of legally purchased music)? The questions Randall tackles range from realistic possibilities (e.g. These turned out to be the remains of North American forests [[An unlabeled map shows the region roughly between central Canada and northern Brazil. You just might not be prepared for how big you will need to be dreaming. First and shortest of two long breaks in a row, the 11th break in total. Pages in category "Nuclear weapons" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. the continental shelf. We would see a variety of benefits across our lives but we would also freeze and die. If we could convert the energy to build the Great Pyramid, would it be enough to send a rocket to the Moon and back? By Luke Darby. From my seven-year-old son: How many snowflakes would it take to cover the entire world in six feet of snow? What's the likelihood this could happen? Which has a greater gravitational pull on me: the Sun, or spiders? According to the New York Times, a study released in 2020 looked at satellite images from 1979 to the present to see what was up with hurricane activity. The flooding they cause is also terrible and deadly, but at least the law of gravitation means that the water stays by the ground. 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.. Randall announced his what if? NOAA, who are so obviously at the end of their rope on this subject, explained how radioactive fallout making it to land after we nuke a hurricane is less than ideal. Hurricanes [] Hurricane Where-The-Hell-Is-Bermuda []. Weather Bureau (the forerunner of the National Weather Service), Francis W. Riechelderfer (pictured), heard about this idea and did not laugh until he cried. Second two months break of at least two in a row, the 16th break in total. If you made an elevator that would go to space (like the one you mentioned in the billion-story building) and built a staircase up (assuming regulated air pressure) about how long would it take to climb to the top? As plastic is made from oil and oil is made from dead dinosaurs, how much actual real dinosaur is there in a plastic dinosaur? Weather Bureau said he could "imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb. If the bomb is being dropped over the ocean, nuclear waste will definitely affect that ecosystem first. What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? sprawling 400-page report produced for the Department of Defense by What a great sea that would be! The debris takes This book can't stop most bullets; if you want to use it for armour, you may want a lot more than one copy. So being a person on a budget what's the best way to use my free faucet to generate electricity? Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? Even the U.S. government got involved in a big way. How close could I stand to watch it? Regardless of the context, Randall tends to take the questions extremely literally and responds seriously to them, even if they are whimsical (such as the Yoda question). [[A bar chart on a sheet of paper labeled "Fuel energy density in Megajoules Tropical cyclones derive their energy from vertical temperature differences, are symmetrical, and have a warm core. With less than 3 weeks between releases, releases seems to have become more regular in the beginning of 2017. 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. I just moved into a new apartment. How dangerous is it, really, to be in a swimming pool in a thunderstorm? Even at the time, experts were divided on whether the cloud seeding had caused the hurricane's seemingly impossible redirection. Honestly, my main motivation is to baffle someone in the distant future, but it's an interesting scientific question: what would happen to my body in orbit over the course of years, decades or centuries? Answer: A literal Death Star. My 4 year old son and I were wondering about soccer ball sized hail today. 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