What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- ISBN-10
- 0544272994
- ISBN-13
- 9780544272996
- Series
- What If?
- Category
- Humor
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-02
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Randall Munroe
Description
The creator of the incredibly popular webcomic xkcd presents his heavily researched answers to his fans' oddest questions, including “What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?” and “Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?” 100,000 first printing.
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