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+ | This is a list of What If? articles, published either in Randall Munroe's book ''What If?'' or on [https://what-if.xkcd.com 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. | ||
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+ | {| class="wikitable sortable" | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | ! Article title | ||
+ | ! Alternative title | ||
+ | ! Website no. | ||
+ | ! Book chapter | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | 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 || | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | Twitter || || 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 | ||
+ | |} | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[Category:Books]] |
Revision as of 23:44, 4 May 2022
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 |
---|---|---|---|
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 |