Please join for what is sure to be the most fun-filled hour of the day as we chat online with Randall Munroe about his new book What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questi ons. \;
\nThe millions of people around the world who read and l oved What If? still have questions\, and those questions are getting stran ger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is stick ing the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone&rsquo\; s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it&rsquo\;s time for a brief introd uction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a hel icopter blade\, built a billion-story building\, made a lava lamp out of l ava\, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay\, if you insist.
\nB efore you go on a cosmic road trip\, feed the residents of New York City t o a T. rex\, or fill every church with bananas\, be sure to consult this p ractical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity\, Randall consu lts the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-c atapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers&rsquo\; questio ns. As he consistently demonstrates\, you can learn a lot from examining h ow the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.
\nFi lled with bonkers science\, boundless curiosity\, and Randall&rsquo\;s sig nature stick-figure comics\, What if? 2 provides his best answers yet to t he weirdest questions you never thought to ask.
\nAbout the Author: Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and author of What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions\, Thing Expla iner: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words\, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real World Problems\, and What if? 2: Additional Serious Scien tific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. 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 a t 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 ti mes. In 2013\, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid afte r him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it e ver hits a planet like Earth.
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