What If chapters
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This is a list of What If? articles, published either in Randall Munroe's book What If? or on the blog. If the article has a different name in the book than on the blog, then the alternative title will be listed alongside the blog title.
Article title | Alternative title | Website no. | Book chapter |
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Relativistic Baseball | 1 | 2 | |
SAT Guessing | 2 | 66 | |
Yoda | 3 | 32 | |
Mole of Moles | 4 | 10 | |
Robot Apocalypse | 5 | ||
Glass Half Empty | 6 | 26 | |
Everybody Out | 7 | 35 | |
Everybody Jump | 8 | 9 | |
Soul Mates | 9 | 6 | |
Cassini | 10 | ||
Droppings | 11 | ||
Raindrop | 12 | 65 | |
Laser Pointer | 13 | 7 | |
Short Answer Section | 14 | ||
Mariana Trench Explosion | 15 | ||
Today’s topic: Lightning | Lightning | 16 | 19 |
Green Cows | 17 | ||
BB Gun | 18 | ||
Tie Vote | 19 | ||
Diamond | 20 | ||
Machine-Gun Jetpack | 21 | 14 | |
Cost of Pennies | 22 | ||
Short Answer Section II | Short-Answer Section | 23 | 18 |
Model Rockets | 24 | ||
Three Wise Men | 25 | ||
Leap Seconds | 26 | ||
Death Rates | 27 | ||
Steak Drop | 28 | 23 | |
Spent Fuel Pool | 29 | 3 | |
Interplanetary Cessna | 30 | 30 | |
FedEx Bandwidth | 31 | 44 | |
Hubble | 32 | ||
Ships | 33 | ||
34 | 50 | ||
Hair Dryer | 35 | 11 | |
Cornstarch | 36 | ||
Supersonic Stereo | 37 | ||
Voyager | 38 | ||
Hockey Puck | 39 | 24 | |
Pressure Cooker | 40 | ||
Go West | 41 | ||
Longest Sunset | 42 | 52 | |
Train Loop | 43 | ||
High Throw | 44 | 38 | |
ISS Music Video | 45 | ||
Bowling Ball | 46 | ||
Alien Astronomers | 47 | 28 | |
Sunset on the British Empire | 48 | 60 | |
Sunless Earth | 49 | 57 | |
Extreme Boating | 50 | ||
Free Fall | 51 | 45 | |
Bouncy Balls | 52 | ||
Drain the Oceans | 53 | 48 | |
Drain the Oceans: Part II | 54 | 49 | |
Random Sneeze Call | 55 | 53 | |
Restraining an Airplane | 56 | ||
Dropping a Mountain | 57 | ||
Orbital Speed | 58 | 43 | |
Updating a Printed Wikipedia | 59 | 58 | |
Signs of Life | 60 | ||
Speed Bump | 61 | 41 | |
Falling with Helium | 62 | 34 | |
Google’s Datacenters on Punch Cards | 63 | ||
Rising Steadily | 64 | 15 | |
Twitter Timeline Height | 65 | ||
500 MPH | 66 | ||
Expanding Earth | 67 | 55 | |
Human Computer | 68 | 21 | |
Facebook of the Dead | 69 | 59 | |
The Constant Groundskeeper | 70 | ||
Stirring Tea | 71 | 61 | |
Loneliest Human | 72 | 63 | |
Lethal Neutrinos | 73 | 39 | |
Soda Planet | 74 | ||
Phone Keypad | 75 | ||
Reading Every Book | 76 | ||
Growth Rate | 77 | ||
T-rex Calories | 78 | ||
Lake Tea | 79 | ||
Pile of Viruses | 80 | ||
Catch! | 81 | ||
Hitting a comet | 82 | ||
Star Sand | 83 | ||
Paint the Earth | 84 | ||
Rocket Golf | 85 | ||
Far-Traveling Objects | 86 | ||
Enforced by Radar | 87 | ||
Soda Sequestration | 88 | ||
Tungsten Countertop | 89 | ||
Great Tree, Great Axe | 90 | ||
Faucet Power | 91 | ||
One-Second Day | 92 | ||
Windshield Raindrops | 93 | ||
Billion-Story Building | 94 | ||
Pyramid Energy | 95 | ||
$2 Undecillion Lawsuit | 96 | ||
Burning Pollen | 97 | ||
Blood Alcohol | 98 | ||
Starlings | 99 | ||
WWII Films | 100 | ||
Plastic Dinosaurs | 101 | ||
Keyboard Power | 102 | ||
Vanishing Water | 103 | ||
Global Snow | 104 | ||
Cannibalism | 105 | ||
Ink Molecules | 106 | ||
Letter to Mom | 107 | ||
Expensive Shoebox | 108 | ||
Into the Blue | 109 | ||
Walking New York | 110 | ||
All the Money | 111 | ||
Balloon Car | 112 | ||
Visit Every State | 113 | ||
Antimatter | 114 | ||
Into the Sun | 115 | ||
No-Rules NASCAR | 116 | ||
Distant Death | 117 | ||
Physical Salary | 118 | ||
Laser Umbrella | 119 | ||
Alternate Universe What Ifs | 120 | ||
Frozen Rivers | 121 | ||
Lava Lamp | 122 | ||
Fairy Demographics | 123 | ||
Lunar Swimming | 124 | ||
Bowling Ball | 125 | ||
Stairs | 126 | ||
Tug of War | 127 | ||
Zippo Phone | 128 | ||
Black Hole Moon | 129 | ||
Snow Removal | 130 | ||
Microwaves | 131 | ||
Hotter than Average | 132 | ||
Flagpole | 133 | ||
Space Burial | 134 | ||
Digging Downward | 135 | ||
Spiders vs. the Sun | 136 | ||
New Horizons | 137 | ||
Jupiter Submarine | 138 | ||
Jupiter Descending | 139 | ||
Proton Earth, Electron Moon | 140 | ||
Sunbeam | 141 | ||
Space Jetta | 142 | ||
Europa Water Siphon | 143 | ||
Saliva Pool | 144 | ||
Fire from Moonlight | 145 | ||
Stop Jupiter | 146 | ||
Niagara Straw | 147 | ||
Eat the Sun | 148 | ||
Pizza Bird | 149 | ||
Tattooine Rainbow | 150 | ||
Sun Bug | 151 | ||
Flood Death Valley | 152 | ||
Hide the Atmosphere | 153 | ||
Coast-to-Coast Coasting | 154 | ||
Toaster vs. Freezer | 155 | ||
Electrofishing for Whales | 156 | ||
Earth-Moon Fire Pole | 157 | ||
Global Windstorm | 1 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #1 | 4 | ||
New York–Style Time Machine | 5 | ||
Periodic Wall of the Elements | 8 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #2 | 12 | ||
The Last Human Light | 13 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #3 | 16 | ||
Orbital Submarine | 17 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #4 | 20 | ||
Little Planet | 22 | ||
Common Cold | 25 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #5 | 27 | ||
No More DNA | 29 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #6 | 31 | ||
Flyover States | 33 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #7 | 36 | ||
Self-Fertilization | 37 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #8 | 40 | ||
Lost Immortals | 42 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #9 | 46 | ||
Sparta | 47 | ||
Lego Bridge | 51 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #10 | 54 | ||
Weightless Arrow | 56 | ||
Stirring Tea | 62 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #11 | 64 | ||
Neutron Bullet | 67 | ||
Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #12 | 68 | ||
Richter 15 | 69 |