What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe

Please make sure everyone is safely out of the Solar System before you fill it with soup.

That’s fine, you just need to remove more rock, perhaps with some kind of Sun-powered vegetable peeler.

What would happen if you microwaved a smaller microwave, while the smaller one was on as well?

You would no longer be welcome in that IKEA.

As plastic is made from oil and oil is made from dead dinosaurs, how much actual real dinosaur is there in a plastic dinosaur?

How long do you think two people would have to kiss continuously before they had no lips left?

I also think that it’s probably good that Mount Saint Helens didn’t erupt compact fluorescent bulbs.

SISYPHEAN REFRIGERATORS

If you open the door, the fridge will struggle endlessly to draw up heat from the front and disperse it out into the air via the coils, only to have the air flow right back in. Then it has to start all over, like Sisyphus forever rolling a boulder up a hill.

So if you want to have a pointless object in your front yard wasting energy forever for no good reason, then instead of plugging in your refrigerator, just have Sisyphus push a rock up a hill.