In reality, the oceans arent that deep. The heat release is equivalent. each. Other than being a really bad idea, what effect would it have? (I don't know why six feetbut that's what he asked.). }}, 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/upcoming_hurricanes.png, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Sugar: 19 briefly glows the magma of the mantle. If it's possible, what would a lunar ("holar"?) What if there was a robot apocalypse? Why can't we do that?" His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, studded with memorable cartoons and infographics. The rising less than an hour to encircle the Earth. petrified wood mixed with sand buried beneath the Louisiana and Texas Thanks for looking at my book. effects has not been made. Whats the fastest way to get a hand-written letter from my place in Chicago to my mother in New Jersey? If you make the words pronounceable by always alternating vowels and consonants, the names would be about 24 letters long. the only thing to do would be to make a swimming pool. wiped out. Order here! If so, how many golf balls would be required to reach the Moon? That's more than 666 times bigger than the "Little Boy" bomb that the US dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. How many molecules of the ink would be used? 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." (Also, Randall misspelled Bethlehem). 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? How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely? When I was about 8 years old, shoveling snow on a freezing day in Colorado, I wished that I could be instantly transported to the surface of the Sun, just for a nanosecond, then instantly transported back. Leaving aside the legal and insurance difficulties, my daughter is keen to know the maximum speed that she could expect to attain, and how many helium balloons would be required. desk and steps on the 0 key, which inserts six extra zeroes: \[\text{Radius} = \left (\frac{3}{4\pi}\right) ^\frac{1}{3}\left ( \frac{40 \% \times 53000000\text{ megatons of TNT}}{\text{Mariana Trench pressure}+\text{1 ATM}} \right)^\frac{1}{3}\approx35\text{ miles}\]. So being a person on a budget what's the best way to use my free faucet to generate electricity? This book can't stop most bullets; if you want to use it for armour, you may want a lot more than one copy. Or standing in a graphite field? part of the ocean. [[A bar chart on a sheet of paper labeled "Fuel energy density in Megajoules ", The site wrote that during a hurricane briefing, which occurred early into the first year of Trump's presidency, Trump allegedly said, "[Hurricanes] 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. Would I be able to boil a cup of water by stirring? This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). a result of such a deep-water closed bubble creation and dissipation, And it's not possible anyway, since nukes are not giant, cutting-edge fans. 6, but they would cost much more than you could afford. He hadn't let go of his idea as of 2004. 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. It's annoying biking in the wintertime, because it's so cold. 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? What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place? what if? Northwest, along with most of coastal China and the rest of the Pacific The 'reality' and consequences of using multiple cars (that are not your own) to construct a trans-Atlantic highway. "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. Nuclear bombs aren't powerful enough to stop a hurricane, and part of that is because they don't even do the thing you'd most need to slow the storm down. This warm water creates humid air, which then gets thrust upwards by tropical winds to create storm clouds. What would happen if you exploded a nuclear bomb in the eye of a hurricane? Biking at that speed would make your body generate so much heat your core temperature would reach fatal levels in seconds. Even at the time, experts were divided on whether the cloud seeding had caused the hurricane's seemingly impossible redirection. 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. Between the famine and the fires, most life on Earth is What if you strapped C4 to a boomerang? Partway down the side of that skyscraper there's a flagpole sticking out, sans flag! What a great man that would be! What do we do with this?'" But beware of messing with the Texans. At 53 megatons, the Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever Assuming the stereo is indestructible then yes. is a blog hosted on the xkcd.com domain and written by Randall Munroe with entries posted occasionally. In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. A hurricane would shrug off a nuclear bomb the way an elephant does a gnat. What a great sea that would be! into the atmosphere, they heat to a glowlike meteorsigniting global What injuries would occur and what would the associated crimes be? What would it be like to swim in it? This can never happen, even if we were to throw Earth at Jupiter. My 4 year old son and I were wondering about soccer ball sized hail today. In Armageddon, a NASA guy comments that a plan to shoot a laser at the asteroid is like shooting a b.b. It's difficult to envision a practical way of moving that much air around.". The first couple dozen ideas scientists came up with were totally ineffective, but the next big breakthrough could be right around the corner. Possibly the Apollo Astronauts but they definitely weren't lonely. 2 book. What is the point of stopping a hurricane from doing terrible damage to a relatively small area, if to do so, you spread radioactive material around the globe, affecting unimaginable numbers of people for years to come? Hurricanes emit a mind-boggling amount of energy. 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.) What if everything was antimatter, EXCEPT Earth? When (if ever) did the Sun finally set on the British Empire? typically takes the question beyond the original scope likely intended by the reader and takes it to some extreme for humorous effect. On their website,NOAA writes, "Maybe the time will come when men and women can travel at nearly the speed of light to the stars, and we will then have enough energy for brute-force intervention in hurricane dynamics. I bike to class sometimes. The release date in the archive is the wrong month June. In that year (assuming no more comics before February 26 2017), only 8 articles where released including both 147 and this one. the continental shelf. I've long thought about putting a flamethrower on the front of a car to melt snow and ice before you drive across it. In the modern era, even with huge advances in hurricane tracking, 1998's Hurricane Mitch killed over 11,000 people in Central America. How strong, compared to a regular cup of tea, would the lake tea be? e.g. What is the furthest one human being has ever been from every other living person? Are they really equivalent? Her 13-year-old friend would then drive the Ferrari around, while she sits in the chair enjoying uninterrupted views of the countryside. If you call a random phone number and say God bless you, what are the chances that the person who answers just sneezed? When they do, you have to pause between letters, making those words annoying to type. Most of the tests, however, involved either small bombs or shallow Would it negate the need for a heat shield? A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. Would we ever generate enough power to offset the cost of the generators? If you made a beach using grains the proportionate size of the stars in the Milky Way, what would that beach look like? And if the great man took the great axe, The finger holes would collapse and then not much would happen. The eight two weeks break, 14th break in total. Again. 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." 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. How much would the sea level fall if every ship were removed all at once from the Earth's waters? Problem solved, right? It would be vapourized before it got close to the Sun. Is there enough energy to move the entire current human population off-planet? Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. What would happen if you were in a boat, plane or a submarine that got hit by lightning? August 26, 2019. How close would you have to be to a supernova to get a lethal dose of neutrino radiation? exhaustively examines and summarizes all available research about the You just might not be prepared for how big you will need to be dreaming. I know that stirring does help to cool down the tea, but what if I were to stir it faster? There is an easy way to link to a given what if? What if you were changing the light at the top of a radio tower and lightning struck? It's baffling and has made me automatically adjust heating times to over 2 minutes. quite as dramatic as Evin might have imagined. 0 618: Asteroid 696: Strip Games 786: Exoplanets 809: Los Alamos There's a lot of numbers involved, so let's have the experts at NOAA explain it: "A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 201013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. And also, Donald Trump allegedly threw it out there as an idea a few times while president. Could you electrofish for a blue whale? As far back as 1984, Trump has talked about the threat and promise of nuclear. With a bigger bomb, it could destroy the world. of 200-300 miles inland, whichever limit is reached first.. This work is licensed under a Earths crust dozens of miles across, leaving a hole through which Could you get drunk from drinking a drunk person's blood? But it might have, and that's enough to concern scientists, especially when they are talking about going from cloud seeding to nuclear weapons. 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. produces a cavity of hot gasses, which then collapses. What a great splish-splash that would be! Surely NOAA would tell people to dream big? On Sunday, Axios reported that Donald Trump has a rather extreme idea for hurricane preparedness: nuke the storms before they make landfall. Through the decades, theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that researchers tried a laundry list of ways to stop hurricanes, including "seeding clouds with dry ice or silver iodide, reducing evaporation from the ocean surface with thin-layers of polymers, cooling the ocean with cryogenic material or icebergs, changing the radiational balance in the hurricane environment by absorption of sunlight with carbon black, flying jets clockwise in the eyewall to reverse the flow, exploding the hurricane apart with hydrogen bombs, and blowing the storm away from land with giant fans, etc.". This memo has been declassified, but was never published. A nuke set off the North American coast: Quantitative study of the destructive Just more FAKE NEWS!". I was absentmindedly stirring a cup of hot tea, when I got to thinking, "aren't I actually adding kinetic energy into this cup?" While the idea of hurricane police is awesome (and not any crazier than having a Space Force, really), it doesn't seem like you could get humanity on board with dropping 80 nuclear bombs every year to prevent a couple big hurricanes. What about 1 foot? What If? There is a water average. If Michael Phelps could hold his breath indefinitely, how long would it take for him to reach the lowest point in the ocean and back if he swam straight down and then straight back up? And mess they did. After this less orderly period there came a period of 10 weeks in a row with 10 releases starting on January 1, 2015. 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.". How would the Earth change as the water is being drained? This work is licensed under a Of course, at that point, it might be easier to just leave Earth behind completely. What if a spacecraft slowed down on re-entry to just a few miles per hour using rocket boosters like the Mars-sky-crane? (Assuming the average composition of rock were maintained.). In terms of human-made objects, has Voyager 1 travelled the farthest distance? We were both (luckily) amazed and surprised and I have often wondered what the odds are for something like that happening. Fast enough so you would need a speedometer in scientific notation. However, Riechelderfer understood the gravity of the idea, saying they'd wait to start nuking storms "until we know what we're doing." But wait! 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. It goes through three or four cycles of this collapse and expansion As long as you don't touch strange things and you don't swim too close to the fuel rods, it would be just like a regular pool. . 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? Far more than a book for geeks, WHAT IF: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much the smarter for having read. What if every virus in the world were collected into one area? Is there any way to fire a gun so that the bullet flies through the air and can then be safely caught by hand? How much damage would a hail storm with size 5 soccer ball sized hail do? Some words have consecutive letters on the same number. Why can't we do that? More details. sprawling 400-page report produced for the Department of Defense by But this raised the question: could a bird deliver a standard 20" New York-style cheese pizza in a box? 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. 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. shooter is at sea level and catcher is up a mountain at the extreme range of the gun. We've been to the Moon! There is no way to tell in advance which ones will develop." 8000+ feet)? He said, 'Maybe we should drop a nuclear weapon on them. You can almost visualize his wide-eyed innocence, wanting to take two deadly forces and use them to destroy each other, to benefit mankind. Well, sort of. 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. Most of the time it would not hit anyhing. Intense enough to cause a medium sized nuclear explosion. Dotted lines indicating hurricane paths cover the map, all red except where noted. And cut down the great tree, And the best part is, it's all humanity's fault. 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions was released on September 13. Liquid nitrogen? eclipse look like? If, on the other hand, you're being attacked by a coyote, it's higher top speed means you'll have only one chance to hit it. 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. How much volume would they take up and what would they look like? The final six articles in this period were released on four different week days, only two of them with one week apart. 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. Humanity would survive if the robots cared about keeping themselves alive as well. This new release is probably due to the upcoming release of the What If? expand into a bubble 70 miles across. that engulf the forests of Indonesia, California, and the Pacific Stopping rain from falling on something with an umbrella or a tent is boring. {{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. This is clear from his response to the question of what would happen if everybody on Earth stood together and jumped at the same time. At what point in human history were there too many (English) books to be able to read them all in one lifetime? If the stack is too tall to fit in the room, write down the number of pages it would take to write down the number. What would kill me first? As the chunks of rock fall back How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the Sun? What if you shined a flashlight (or a laser) into a sphere made of one-way mirror glass? He liked these questions so much that he started up What If. How long would it take for the population of the world to read them all out loud? "Needless to say, this is not a good idea.". You would have to go 200m/s. By Luke Darby. How much would you need to make to be in real trouble? If they are radioactive, then they radiate energy. Although they were presumably trying to say "hotter than the average swimming pool," this got me wondering: What is the average temperature of all water on the Earths surface, and how does that temperature compare to 39C? In most cases this tends to heat the bowl or plate more than the food. . ' 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. What would it be like to navigate a rowboat through a lake of mercury? 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. 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. No underwater test has involved bombs anywhere near that size, nor depths anywhere near that deep. He served in the Philippines in 1946 and rode eight missions through typhoons inside . Hurricanes are extremely powerful: A fully developed hurricane releases the same amount of energy as the explosion of a 10-megaton nuke every 20 minutes, the NOAA article says. If we could convert the energy to build the Great Pyramid, would it be enough to send a rocket to the Moon and back? If the explosion till late teens/early twenties) at the same pace as we do during our first month? Am I right to be afraid of pressure cookers? Since 2014, there's also a book of the blog. When completed, six small reactors to be built in Idaho could be powering homes in Southern Utah by 2030. What if I tried to re-enter the atmosphere in my car? Hurricanes cause destruction in lots of ways, but the big one is wind. coast. How long could the human race survive on only cannibalism? As a writer, I'm wondering what would be the cumulative energy of the hundreds of thousands of keystrokes required to write a novel. ", Still, we shouldn't stop people from dreaming. How much of the Earth's currently-existing water has ever been turned into a soft drink at some point in its history? Could a high-speed train run through a vertical loop, like a rollercoaster, with the passengers staying comfortable? Instead,according to Popular Mechanics, he said he could "imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb on a hurricane far at sea." What about using a squirrel suit? Before publishing the first what if? would reach to a height of 200-300 feet above sea level, or a distance And since currents move everything in the ocean around, radioactive fallout would not stay in one place and would definitely make it to land eventually. Would the storm cell be immediately vaporized? From my seven-year-old son: How many snowflakes would it take to cover the entire world in six feet of snow? serious answers to absurd questions and absurd advice for common concerns from xkcd's Randall Munroe. Liquid gallium? 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