Please join for what is sure to be the mos t fun-filled hour of the day as we chat online with Randall Munroe about h is new book \;What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Abs urd Hypothetical Questions. \;
\nThe millions of people around t he world who read and loved \;What If? \;still have questions\, an d those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randal l Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atm osphere by opening everyone&rsquo\;s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it&rsquo\;s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade\, built a billion-story b uilding\, made a lava lamp out of lava\, or jumped on a geyser as it erupt ed? Okay\, if you insist.
\nBefore you go on a cosmic road trip\, fe ed the residents of New York City to a T. rex\, or fill every church with bananas\, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. U nfazed by absurdity\, Randall consults the latest research on everything f rom swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers&rsquo\; questions. As he consistently demonstrates\, y ou can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specifi c extreme circumstances.
\nFilled with bonkers science\, boundless c uriosity\, and Randall&rsquo\;s signature stick-figure comics\, \;What if? 2 \;provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you n ever thought to ask.
\nAbout the Author: Randall Munroe is the creat or of the webcomic xkcd and author of \;What If?: Serious Scientific A nswers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions\, \;Thing Explainer: Complicat ed Stuff in Simple Words\, \;How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Comm on Real World Problems\, and \;What if? 2: Additional \;Serious Sc ientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Randall was born in Eas ton\, Pennsylvania\, and grew up outside Richmond\, Virginia. After studyi ng physics at Christopher Newport University\, he got a job building robot s 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. In 2013\, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid a fter him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if i t ever hits a planet like Earth.
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