What If?
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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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- With this book and with XKCD, you're a kid with a chemistry set all over again. [Randall Munroe's] enthusiasm for all things scientific is infectious . . . required reading for grown-ups, it's just fun to remember that science is really, really cool REGISTER
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Randall Munroe
is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and bestselling author of
What If?, Thing Explainer and
xkcd: Volume 0. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006 he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full time, and has since been nominated for a Hugo Award three times. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth.
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| Einband | Taschenbuch |
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| Seitenzahl | 320 |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.09.2015 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| ISBN | 978-1-84854-956-2 |
| Verlag | Hodder And Stoughton |
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| Maße (L/B/H) | 19,5/12,6/2,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 260 g |
| Verkaufsrang | 7549 |
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