An edition of What If? 2 (2022)

What If? 2

Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by

  • ★★★★★ 5.00 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 51 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read
What If? 2
Randall Munroe
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
  • ★★★★★ 5.00 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 51 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by OnFrATa
November 29, 2023 | History
Edit
An edition of What If? 2 (2022)

What If? 2

Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by

  • ★★★★★ 5.00 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 51 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

A second collection of Fermi problems so ridiculous that Fermi would be disgusted.

Publish Date
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Pages
354

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Subjects
back-of-the-envelope calculations, human endurance, extreme circumstances, space travel, Science
People
Galileo Galilei (implicitly)
Places
the solar system, the universe

Showing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?

Edition Availability
Cover of: What If? 2
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
2023, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: What if? 2
What if? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
2022, Riverhead Books
Hardcover
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: What If? 2
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
2022, Penguin Publishing Group
hardcover in English
  • Not in Library
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: What If? 2
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Sep 13, 2022, Riverhead Books
hardcover
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: What If? 2
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
2022, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: What If? 2
What If? 2
Sep 01, 2022, PENGUIN US
paperback
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Munroe
Munroe: What If?2
Publisher unknown
paperback
Libraries near you: WorldCat

Add another edition?

Book Details

Published in

New York, USA

First Sentence

"What would happen if the Solar System was filled with soup out to Jupiter? —Amelia, age 5"

Table of Contents

Introduction Page ix
1. Soupiter Page 1
2. Helicopter Ride Page 6
3. Dangerously Cold Page 11
4. Ironic Vaporization Page 16
5. Cosmic Road Trip Page 22
6. Pigeon Chair Page 26
S. Short Answers #1 Page 30
7. T. Rex Calories Page 37
8. Geyser Page 40
9. Pew, Pew, Pew Page 43
10. Reading Every Book Page 47
W. Weird & Worrying #1 Page 51
11. Banana Church Page 52
12. Catch! Page 55
13. Lose Weight the Slow and Incredibly Difficult Way Page 59
14. Paint the Earth Page 66
15. Jupiter Comes to Town Page 70
16. Star Sand Page 74
17. Swing Set Page 78
18. Airliner Catapult Page 83
S. Short Answers #2 Page 88
19. Slow Dinosaur Apocalypse Page 98
20. Elemental Worlds Page 103
21. One-Second Day Page 108
22. Billion-Story Building Page 111
23. $2 Undecillion Lawsuit Page 120
24. Star Ownership Page 124
25. Tire Rubber Page 128
26. Plastic Dinosaurs Page 131
S. Short Answers #3 Page 135
27. Suction Aquarium Page 143
28. Earth Eye Page 149
29. Build Rome in a Day Page 154
30. Mariana Trench Tube Page 159
31. Expensive Shoebox Page 164
32. MRI Compass Page 168
33. Ancestor Fraction Page 172
34. Bird Car Page 176
35. No-Rules NASCAR Page 180
W. Weird & Worrying #2 Page 185
36. Vacuum Tube Smartphone Page 186
37. Laser Umbrella Page 192
38. Eat a Cloud Page 195
39. Tall Sunsets Page 199
40. Lava Lamp Page 202
41. Sisyphean Refrigerators Page 206
42. Blood Alcohol Page 210
43. Basketball Earth Page 214
44. Spiders vs. the Sun Page 217
45. Inhale a Person Page 220
46. Candy Crush Lightening Page 223
S. Short Answers #4 Page 226
47. Toasty Warm Page 234
48. Proton Earth, Electron Moon Page 236
49. Eyeball Page 241
50. Japan Runs an Errand Page 244
51. Fire from Moonlight Page 249
52. Read All the Laws Page 255
W. Weird & Worrying #3 Page 262
53. Saliva Pool Page 263
54. Snowball Page 268
55. Niagara Straw Page 272
56. Walking Backward in Time Page 277
57. Ammonia Tube Page 284
58. Earth-Moon Fire Pole Page 287
S. Short Answers #5 Page 298
59. Global Snow Page 305
60. Dog Overload Page 308
61. Into the Sun Page 314
62. Sunscreen Page 318
63. Walking on the Sun Page 323
64. Lemon Drops and Gumdrops Page 329
Acknowledgments Page 335
References Page 337
Index Page 349

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2022

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
ix, 354p
Number of pages
354
Weight
876 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL46110270M
ISBN 13
9780525537120

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
November 29, 2023 Edited by OnFrATa Merge works (MRID: 98172)
September 26, 2023 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
July 23, 2023 Edited by frstndlstlns added description
June 12, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
January 31, 2022 Created by ImportBot import new book