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This was a great book to leave on your coffee table and browse when you have a few minutes. If you’ve ever contemplated questions such as “If every person on the earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color?” or “What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place?” then Randall Munroe’s “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions” is the book for you. Munroe is the Camb
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I like these books. They have incredibly detailed explanations for silly questions, but that's really right up my alley. A couple of them threw me off because of when I read the book: the quarantining for the rhinovirus (yikes), Facebook of the Dead (double yikes), Loneliest Human (noooo!) But most of them were pure fun, especially the two back to back Drain the Earth scenarios.
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This was a funny witty summer read. I’ve learned some things, laughed aloud a lot and wondered how people came up with these questions.
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it was amazing
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