What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If? #2)[October 28, 2022]

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

The Nascar question wasn't nearly as good as I was hoping...

But the Laser Umbrella was like 10x better...

[Narilka]

I liked the Nascar question though think he should've ended a minute or two earlier. The Ancestor Fraction one I found fascinating.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Narilka wrote: "I liked the Nascar question though think he should've ended a minute or two earlier. The Ancestor Fraction one I found fascinating."

It's like he can't help taking it further... like mythbusters, when a myth is busted, and they want to find a way to make it work, or take it to the extreme...

[Narilka]

Yes exactly. Sometimes it works out. Other times not so much.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

To me, the gist of the Nascar answer sounded like the Nascar drivers solved Nascar physics a long time ago... only way to be faster is with an empty track and like double speed...

Barring shenanigans like this from last month, I think: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/...

The move helped the driver place high enough to stay in championship contention...

[Narilka]

Eat a Cloud was pretty darn funny lol

[Narilka]

Ch 42 Blood Alcohol was a tad disturbing. Interesting though. I don't even want to know the kinds of things Munroe accidentally saw while researching this answer.

[Narilka]

Ch 54 Snowball - I never knew that about snowballs, that they actually get slower as they get bigger. So much for that saying lol

The title for Ch 56 has me excited. Please let the question be as cool as the chapter title :D

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I liked eating a cloud... and real lava lamp... but I'm not sure what the point of the volcano of lightbulbs was, except to show a formula existed...

[Narilka]

Ch 56 Walking Backwards in Time wasn't what I expected the question to be. I did like the answer though.

Ch 57 Ammonia Tube was gross. It would be a great idea for a horror author to snag.

[Narilka]

I finished. That was highly enjoyable. I hope we get another installment in the future.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Probably be awhile... Munroe wrote some other books, in the 8-10 years since the previous book...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I'm aiming to finish this up today... agree about the Ammonia tube... almost thinking like Magic Schoolbus, delving inside...

Sometimes I wish he'd explore the skipped questions more :D

Wil Wheaton couldn't even keep a straight face, trying to read about the horny spiders...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I liked the one about reading all the laws, since it's right in my reading speed wheelhouse, if we can get it all on audio...

That Saliva Pool was gross...

Walking Backward in time was interesting...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Dog Overload: I kinda just love the term "Dalmation Point"

[Narilka]

hehehe yeah, he had fun with that :)

And agree about the skipped questions. Some of them sounded interesting.