What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Hardcover

Munroe, Randall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0544272994 ISBN 13: 9780544272996

Verlag: Dey Street Books, 2014

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From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.

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Randall Munroe is the author of the webcomic xkcd and the New York Times bestsellers What If?, What If? 2, Thing Explainer, and How To. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time. The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after him; that asteroid, 4942 Munroe, is large enough that it could cause widespread devastation if it were to hit Earth. He lives in Massachusetts.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dey Street Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0544272994
• ISBN 13: 9780544272996
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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