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• Do NOT add the missing 50 articles, i'm working on that.
• Upload the thumbnails of articles that don't have them. (Download them from HERE and then click 100x in the table below. Then upload, making sure to add the file to Category:What If? Images.

• Populate the two columns Book and YouTube (You don't need to own the books to help! The book chapters are already on this page: What If? chapters. Simply move what's already there, like this:

YouTube:

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• Keep improving the explanations, they're mostly still too short!

•  ✓ Done  - Re-add all the hyperlinked article titles. They were removed by the AI which that did every other improvement.

I hope to add all the missing articles within the next 2-3 days. Update 19/01: I did until 122, just 50 to go. Hopefully tomorrow or the day after I'll add all of them! In the meantime, do the above. Thanks!

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N	Date	Thumbnail	Title	Reader's question	Randall's answer	Books	YouTube
1	2012‑07‑10		Relativistic Baseball	"What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?"	The result would be some kind of nuclear explosion, and possibly a ruling of "hit by pitch".	Template:book1	This template has been retired and is no longer in use. Use {{book}} instead.
2	2012‑07‑10 0w later		SAT Guessing	"What if everyone who took the SAT guessed on every multiple‑choice question? How many perfect scores would there be?"	No one would get a perfect score.
3	2012‑07‑17 1w later		Yoda	"How much Force power can Yoda output?"	First regular release. From here on standard release day was Tuesday. It's about 19.2 kilowatts, or 25 horsepower.
4	2012‑07‑24 1w later		A Mole of Moles	"What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place?"	As a mole is such a high number this would be tricky. They would condense into a pressurized sphere of meat that would freeze and occasionally explode from gases.	Template:book1
5	2012‑07‑31 1w later		Robot Apocalypse	"What if there was a robot apocalypse? How long would humanity last?"	Humanity would survive if the robots cared about keeping themselves alive as well. If not, then we all die.
6	2012‑08‑07 1w later		Glass Half Empty	"What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty?"	As in a vacuum? Which half are you talking about? If the vacuum is on the bottom, it would explode, but if it's on the top, the air rushes in and it becomes normal water.
7	2012‑08‑14 1w later		Everybody Out	"Is there enough energy to move the entire current human population off‑planet?"	No, at least not without starving to death quickly and leaving our pets, belongings and everything else behind.
8	2012‑08‑21 1w later		Everybody Jump	"What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant?"	Earth would be unaffected, but almost all humans would probably be wiped out due to everyone trying to get home at the same time.		This template has been retired and is no longer in use. Use {{book}} instead.
9	2012‑08‑28 1w later		Soul Mates	"What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world?"	Almost nobody would find their soul mate.	Template:book1
10	2012‑09‑04 1w later		Cassini	"What would the world be like if the land masses were spread out the same way as now ‑ only rotated by an angle of 90 degrees?"	Mass biosphere collapse.
11	2012‑09‑11 1w later		Droppings	"If you went outside and lay down on your back with your mouth open, how long would you have to wait until a bird pooped in it?"	195 years. Assuming you are in a area with a reasonable amount of birds. But why would you want to catch bird poop in your mouth?
12	2012‑09‑18 1w later		Raindrop	"What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop?"	The surrounding area would be obliterated and there would be mass confusion for many following years.
13	2012‑09‑25 1w later		Laser Pointer	"If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color?"	Not with regular lasers, but with more power, you could destroy the world.
14	2012‑10‑02 1w later		Short Answer Section	"How long would the Sun last if a giant water hose were focused upon it?"	The Sun would become a black hole with all the mass of the water.
14	2012‑10‑02 1w later		Short Answer Section	"What if you shined a flashlight (or a laser) into a sphere made of one‑way mirror glass?"	One-way glass does not exist. The light shines through just like normal glass.
14	2012‑10‑02 1w later		Short Answer Section	"If Michael Phelps could hold his breath indefinitely, how long would it take for him to reach the lowest point in the ocean and back if he swam straight down and then straight back up?"	Michael Phelps would die somewhere between 100 and 400 meters of depth. If he was immune to pressure, then it would take 3 hours to swim to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and back.
14	2012‑10‑02 1w later		Short Answer Section	"In the first Superman movie, Superman flies around Earth so fast that it begins turning in the opposite direction. This somehow turns back time [... ] How much energy would someone flying around the Earth have to exert in order to reverse the Earth's rotation?"	Superman wasn't pushing the Earth. He was flying superluminally and was thus travelling back through time.
14	2012‑10‑02 1w later		Short Answer Section	"How fast would you have to go in your car to run a red light claiming that it appeared green to you due to the Doppler Effect?"	About one sixth of the speed of light.
14	2012‑10‑02 1w later		Short Answer Section	"What would happen if you opened a portal between Boston (sea level) and Mexico City (elev. 8000+ feet)?"	There would be winds of 440 mph (708 km/h) sucking Boston into Mexico City.
14	2012‑10‑02 1w later		Short Answer Section	"When my wife and I started dating she invited me over for dinner at one time. Her kitchen had something called Bauhaus chairs, which are full of holes, approx 5‑6 millimeters in diameter in both back and seat. During this lovely dinner I was forced to liberate a small portion of wind and was relieved that I managed to do so very discretely. Only to find that the chair I sat on converted the successful silence into a perfect, and loud, flute note. We were both (luckily) amazed and surprised and I have often wondered what the odds are for something like that happening. We kept the chairs for five years but despite laborious attempts it couldn't be reproduced."	This... isn’t actually a question, but thank you for sharing!
15	2012‑10‑09 1w later		Mariana Trench Explosion	"What if you exploded a nuclear bomb (say, the Tsar Bomba) at the bottom of the Marianas Trench?"	It would warm a small patch of the ocean and not do much. With a bigger bomb, it could destroy the world.
16	2012‑10‑16 1w later		Today's topic: Lightning	"How dangerous is it to be in a pool during a thunderstorm?"		Template:book1
16	2012‑10‑16 1w later		Today's topic: Lightning	"What would happen if you were taking a shower or standing under a waterfall when you were struck by lightning?"		Template:book1
16	2012‑10‑16 1w later		Today's topic: Lightning	"What would happen if you were in a boat, plane or a submarine that got hit by lightning?"		Template:book1
16	2012‑10‑16 1w later		Today's topic: Lightning	"What if you were changing the light at the top of a radio tower and lightning struck? Or what if you were doing a backflip? Or standing in a graphite field? Or looking straight up at the bolt?"		Template:book1
16	2012‑10‑16 1w later		Today's topic: Lightning	"What would happen if lightning struck a bullet in midair?"		Template:book1
16	2012‑10‑16 1w later		Today's topic: Lightning	"What if you were flashing your BIOS during a thunderstorm and you got hit by lightning?"		Template:book1
17	2012‑10‑23 1w later		Green Cows	"If cows could photosynthesize, how much less food would they need?"	4% less. There just isn't enough area.
18	2012‑10‑30 1w later		BB Gun	"In Armageddon, a NASA guy comments that a plan to shoot a laser at the asteroid is like “shooting a b.b. gun at a freight train.” What would it take to stop an out‑of‑control freight train using only b.b. guns?"	40000 people and some magic. Stopping an asteroid with a laser on the other hand is a lot easier.
19	2012‑11‑06 1w later		Tie Vote	"What if there's LITERALLY a tie?"
20	2012‑11‑13 1w later		Diamond	"If a meteor made out of diamond and 100 feet in diameter was traveling at the speed of light and hit the earth, what would happen to it?"	Nothing made of matter can travel at the speed of light, but at the closest speed observed (99.99999999999999999999951% of the speed of light, the speed of the Oh My God Particle), the Earth would explode with enough force to obliterate the entire solar system.
21	2012‑11‑20 1w later		Machine Gun Jetpack	"Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns?"	Yes, but you need to talk to the Russians to do it right.
22	2012‑11‑27 1w later		Cost of Pennies	"If you carry a penny in your coin tray, how long would it take for that penny to cost you more than a cent in extra gas?"	Never.
23	2012‑12‑04 1w later		Short Answer Section II	"If my printer could literally print out money, would it have that big an effect on the world?"		Template:book1
23	2012‑12‑04 1w later		Short Answer Section II	"What would happen if you exploded a nuclear bomb in the eye of a hurricane? Would the storm cell be immediately vaporized?"		Template:book1
23	2012‑12‑04 1w later		Short Answer Section II	"If everyone put little turbine generators on the downspouts of their houses and businesses, how much power would we generate? Would we ever generate enough power to offset the cost of the generators?"		Template:book1
23	2012‑12‑04 1w later		Short Answer Section II	"Using only pronounceable letter combinations, how long would names have to be to give each star in the universe a unique one word name?"		Template:book1
23	2012‑12‑04 1w later		Short Answer Section II	"I bike to class sometimes. It's annoying biking in the wintertime, because it's so cold. How fast would I have to bike for my skin to warm up the way a spacecraft heats up during reentry?"		Template:book1
23	2012‑12‑04 1w later		Short Answer Section II	"How much physical space does the internet take up?"		Template:book1
23	2012‑12‑04 1w later		Short Answer Section II	"What if you strapped C4 to a boomerang? Could this be an effective weapon, or would it be as stupid as it sounds?"		Template:book1
24	2012‑12‑11 1w later		Model Rockets	"How many model rocket engines would it take to launch a real rocket into space?"	About 65,000, give or take a few.
25	2012‑12‑18 1w later		Three Wise Men	"The story of the three wise men got me wondering: What if you did walk towards a star at a fixed speed? What path would you trace on the Earth? Does it converge to a fixed cycle?"	No, but it does make some really cool patterns. The word "Bethlehem" was misspelled in this article.
26	2012‑12‑31 2w later		Leap Seconds	"Every now and then we have to insert a leap second because the Earth’s rotation is slowing down. Could we speed up Earth’s rotation, so that we do not need Leap Seconds?"	With 50 000 planets B-612 hitting the Earth each second and a few assumptions, we could stop worrying about leap seconds.
27	2013‑01‑08 1w later		Death Rates	"If one randomly chosen extra person were to die each second somewhere on Earth, what impact would it have on the world population?"	Not much. The world just has too many people.
28	2013‑01‑15 1w later		Steak Drop	"From what height would you need to drop a steak for it to be cooked when it hit the ground?"	From the very edge of the atmosphere and even then it might not be fully cooked.
29	2013‑01‑22 1w later		Spent Fuel Pool	"What if I took a swim in a typical spent nuclear fuel pool? Would I need to dive to actually experience a fatal amount of radiation? How long could I stay safely at the surface?"	As long as you don't touch strange things and you don't swim too close to the fuel rods, it would be just like a regular pool. Except for the fact you would never make it to the pool.		This template has been retired and is no longer in use. Use {{book}} instead.
30	2013‑01‑29 1w later		Interplanetary Cessna	"What would happen if you tried to fly a normal Earth airplane above different Solar System bodies?"	It would be difficult to fly on Mars, so you would crash. The gas giants also have this problem, and you would freeze and tumble. Titan and Venus are the best bets, but Titan is cold and Venus is full of sulfuric acid.
31	2013‑02‑05 1w later		FedEx Bandwidth	"When ‑ if ever ‑ will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx?"	NEVER!!!
32	2013‑02‑12 1w later		Hubble	"If the Hubble telescope were aimed at the Earth, how detailed would the images be?"	A smudge of colour.		This template has been retired and is no longer in use. Use {{book}} instead.
33	2013‑02‑19 1w later		Ships	"How much would the sea level fall if every ship were removed all at once from the Earth's waters?"	Less than a human hair's width.
34	2013‑02‑26 1w later	100px	Twitter	"How many unique English tweets are possible? How long would it take for the population of the world to read them all out loud?"	Forever, literally.
35	2013‑03‑05 1w later		Hair Dryer	"What would happen if a hair dryer with continuous power was turned on and put in an airtight 1x1x1 meter box?"	Bad things. Like lava, and the burning of North America.
36	2013‑03‑12 1w later		Cornstarch	"How much cornstarch can I rinse down the drain before unpleasant things start to happen?"	Define unpleasant. Megan seems to be having fun.
37	2013‑03‑19 1w later		Supersonic Stereo	"What if you somehow managed to make a stereo travel at twice the speed of sound, would it sound backwards to someone who was just casually sitting somewhere as it flies by?"	Assuming the stereo is indestructible then yes.
38	2013‑03‑26 1w later	100px	Voyager	"With today's technology, would it be possible to launch an unmanned mission to retrieve Voyager I?"	We could possibly spend a ton of money and resources to get a probe to Voyager. Getting it back is another story.
39	2013‑04‑02 1w later		Hockey Puck	"How hard would a puck have to be shot to be able to knock the goalie himself backwards into the net?"	This is another impossible scenario.
40	2013‑04‑09 1w later		Pressure Cooker	"Am I right to be afraid of pressure cookers? What's the worst thing that can happen if you misuse a pressure cooker in an ordinary kitchen?"	The worst thing? Science.
41	2013‑04‑16 1w later		Go West	"If everybody in the US drove west, could we temporarily halt continental drift?"	Not even by a bit.
42	2013‑04‑23 1w later		Longest Sunset	"What is the longest possible sunset you can experience while driving, assuming we are obeying the speed limit and driving on paved roads?"	95 minutes at the right place at the right time.
43	2013‑04‑30 1w later		Train Loop	"Could a high‑speed train run through a vertical loop, like a rollercoaster, with the passengers staying comfortable?"	No, not even if we change the requirements to just the passengers staying alive.
44	2013‑05‑07 1w later		High Throw	"How high can a human throw something?"	16 giraffes.
45	2013‑05‑14 1w later		ISS Music Video	"Is this the most expensive music video ever?"	No. Just no.
46	2013‑05‑21 1w later		Bowling Ball	"I've been told that if the Earth were shrunk down to the size of a bowling ball, it would be smoother than said bowling ball. My question is, what would a bowling ball look like if it were blown up to the size of the Earth?"	The finger holes would collapse and then not much would happen.
47	2013‑05‑28 1w later		Alien Astronomers	"Let's assume there's life on the the nearest habitable exoplanet and that they have technology comparable to ours. If they looked at our star right now, what would they see?"	They would see pretty much nothing with regular telescopes. The detection could be possible with radio technology.
48	2013‑06‑04 1w later		Sunset on the British Empire	"When (if ever) did the Sun finally set on the British Empire?"	It hasn't set and it won't for thousands of years.
49	2013‑06‑11 1w later		Sunless Earth	"What would happen to the Earth if the Sun suddenly switched off?"	We would see a variety of benefits across our lives but we would also freeze and die.
50	2013‑06‑18 1w later		Extreme Boating	"What would it be like to navigate a rowboat through a lake of mercury? What about bromine? Liquid gallium? Liquid tungsten? Liquid nitrogen? Liquid helium?"
51	2013‑06‑25 1w later		Free Fall	"What place on Earth would allow you to freefall the longest by jumping off it? What about using a squirrel suit?"	Mount Thor would allow the longest fall an‑AAAAAAAAAAA...
52	2013‑07‑02 1w later		Bouncy Balls	"What if one were to drop 3,000 bouncy balls from a seven story parking structure onto a person walking on the sidewalk below? Should the person survive, what would be the number of bouncy balls needed to kill them? What injuries would occur and what would the associated crimes be?"	Around 3 000 000 balls. Death would occur and you would be charged with manslaughter or murder.
53	2013‑07‑09 1w later		Drain the Oceans	"How quickly would the ocean's drain if a circular portal 10 meters in radius leading into space was created at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in the ocean? How would the Earth change as the water is being drained?"	NETHERLANDS RULE!!! P.S., everyone dies, new islands everywhere.
54	2013‑07‑16 1w later		Drain the Oceans: Part II	"Supposing you did Drain the Oceans, and dumped the water on top of the Curiosity rover, how would Mars change as the water accumulated?"	it would split into many islands and the Netherlands will take over.
55	2013‑07‑23 1w later		Random Sneeze Call	"If you call a random phone number and say “God bless you”, what are the chances that the person who answers just sneezed? On average, not just in spring or fall."	The chances are 1 in 40000.
56	2013-07-30 1w later		Restraining an Airplane	"If you wanted to anchor an airplane into the ground so it wouldn't be able to take off, what would the rope have to be made out of?"	Whale hair.
57	2013-08-06 1w later		Dropping a Mountain	"What if a huge mountain—Denali, say—had the bottom inch of its base disappear? What would happen from the impact of the mountain falling 1 inch? What about 1 foot? What if the mountain's base were raised to the present height of the summit, and then the whole thing were allowed to drop to the earth?"	The first scenarios are pretty boring. the last is devastating.
58	2013-08-12 1w later		Orbital Speed	"What if a spacecraft slowed down on re-entry to just a few miles per hour using rocket boosters like the Mars-sky-crane? Would it negate the need for a heat shield?"
58	2013-08-12 0w later		Orbital Speed	"Is it possible for a spacecraft to control its reentry in such a way that it avoids the atmospheric compression and thus would not require the expensive (and relatively fragile) heat shield on the outside?"
58	2013-08-12 0w later		Orbital Speed	"Could a (small) rocket (with payload) be lifted to a high point in the atmosphere where it would only need a small rocket to get to escape velocity?"
59	2013-08-20 1w later		Updating a Printed Wikipedia	"If you had a printed version of the whole of (say, the English) Wikipedia, how many printers would you need in order to keep up with the changes made to the live version?"	6, but they would cost much more than you could afford and filing would be a nightmare.
60	2013-08-27 1w later		Signs of Life	"If you could teleport to a random place of the surface of the Earth, what are the odds that you'll see signs of intelligent life?"	70% of the time you would end up in the ocean.
61	2013-09-03 1w later		Speed Bump	"How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live?"	Surprisingly fast, but beware destroying the city, and fines.
62	2013-09-10 1w later		Falling With Helium	"What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely?"	2500 cubic feet.
63	2013-09-17 1w later		Google's Datacenters on Punch Cards	"If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would Google's data warehouse be?"	Big enough to bury the world many times.
64	2013-09-24 1w later		Rising Steadily	"If you suddenly began rising steadily at one foot per second, how exactly would you die? Would you freeze or suffocate first? Or something else?"	Assuming you had a good coat, you would survive to the death zone and die.
65	2013-10-01 1w later		Twitter Timeline Height	"If our Twitter timelines (tweets by the people we follow) actually extended off the screen in both directions, how tall would they be?"	Very tall.
66	2013-10-08 1w later		500 MPH	"If winds reached 500 mph, would it pick up a human?"	Absolutely! But first worry about what caused the 500 MPH winds...
67	2013-10-15 1w later		Expanding Earth	"How long would it take for people to notice their weight gain if the mean radius of the world expanded by 1cm every second? (Assuming the average composition of rock were maintained.)"	10 years, give or take.
68	2013-10-22 1w later		Little Planet	"If an asteroid was very small but supermassive, could you really live on it like the Little Prince?"	Yes, but it would be very inconvenient.
69	2013-10-29 1w later		Facebook of the Dead	"When, if ever, will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than of living ones?"	A decade or a century, depending if Facebook would still be popular.
70	2013-11-05 1w later		The Constant Groundskeeper	"How big of a lawn would you have to have so that when you finished mowing you'd need to start over because the grass has grown?"	Very big, bigger if you're a cougar.
71	2013-11-12 1w later		Stirring Tea	"I was absentmindedly stirring a cup of hot tea, when I got to thinking, "aren't I actually adding kinetic energy into this cup?" I know that stirring does help to cool down the tea, but what if I were to stir it faster? Would I be able to boil a cup of water by stirring?"	No, and don't even try.
72	2013-11-19 1w later		Loneliest Human	"What is the furthest one human being has ever been from every other living person? Were they lonely?"	Possibly the Apollo Astronauts but they definitely weren't lonely.
73	2013-11-26 1w later		Lethal Neutrinos	"How close would you have to be to a supernova to get a lethal dose of neutrino radiation?"	About 2.3 AU.
74	2013-12-03 1w later		Soda Planet	"How much of the Earth's currently-existing water has ever been turned into a soft drink at some point in its history?"	0.0000005%.
75	2013-12-10 1w later		Phone Keypad	"I use one of those old phones where you type with numbers—for example, to type "Y", you press 9 three times. Some words have consecutive letters on the same number. When they do, you have to pause between letters, making those words annoying to type. What English word has the most consecutive letters on the same key?"	Nonmonogamous
76	2013-12-17 1w later		Reading Every Book	"At what point in human history were there too many (English) books to be able to read them all in one lifetime?"	Depends, as many were burned.
77	2013-12-31 2w later		Growth Rate	"What height would humans reach if we kept growing through our whole development period (i.e. till late teens/early twenties) at the same pace as we do during our first month?"	10 to 12 meters.
78	2014-01-07 1w later		T-rex Calories	"If a T-rex were released in New York City, how many humans/day would it need to consume to get its needed calorie intake?"	One large-sized one or two small-sized ones per day.
79	2014-01-14 1w later		Lake Tea	"What if we were to dump all the tea in the world into the Great Lakes? How strong, compared to a regular cup of tea, would the lake tea be?"	Not strong enough to make a difference.
80	2014-01-21 1w later		Pile of Viruses	"What if every virus in the world were collected into one area? How much volume would they take up and what would they look like?"	It would be like a Super Bowl of pus.
81	2014-01-28 1w later		Catch!	"Is there any way to fire a gun so that the bullet flies through the air and can then be safely caught by hand? e.g. shooter is at sea level and catcher is up a mountain at the extreme range of the gun."	It is possible, but beware the police.
82	2014-02-05 1w later		Hitting a comet	"Astrophysicists are always saying things like "This mission to this comet is equivalent to throwing a baseball from New York and hitting a particular window in San Francisco." Are they really equivalent?"	The baseball is much harder.
83	2014-02-11 1w later		Star Sand	"If you made a beach using grains the proportionate size of the stars in the Milky Way, what would that beach look like?"	It would be a bunch of boulders with some patches of sand.
84	2014-02-18 1w later		Paint the Earth	"Has humanity produced enough paint to cover the entire land area of the Earth?"	So close!!! But no, only about as much as the land area of Russia.
85	2014-02-25 1w later		Rocket Golf	"Assuming that you have a spaceship in orbit around the Earth, could you propel your ship to speeds exceeding escape velocity by hitting golf balls in the other direction? If so, how many golf balls would be required to reach the Moon?"	If you cheat, a bag a little smaller than the Moon.
86	2014-03-04 1w later		Far-Traveling Objects	"In terms of human-made objects, has Voyager 1 travelled the farthest distance? It's certainly the farthest from Earth we know about. But what about the edge of ultracentrifuges, or generator turbines that have been running for years, for example?"	The Mariner 1 has traveled much farther than Voyager 1.
87	2014-03-11 1w later		Enforced by Radar	"I've occasionally seen "radar enforced" on speed limit signs, and I can't help but ask: How intense would radio waves have to be to stop a car from going over the speed limit, and what would happen if this were attempted?"	Intense enough to cause a medium sized nuclear explosion. Better to just carry a sign.
88	2014-03-18 1w later		Soda Sequestration	"How much CO2 is contained in the world's stock of bottled fizzy drinks? How much soda would be needed to bring atmospheric CO2 back to preindustrial levels?"	Enough soda to cover Earth with ten layers of cans.
89	2014-03-25 1w later		Tungsten Countertop	"How far would a tungsten countertop descend if I dropped it into the Sun?"	It would be vapourized before it got close to the Sun.
90	2014-04-03 1w later		Great Tree, Great Axe	"If all the seas were one sea, What a great sea that would be! If all the trees were one tree, What a great tree that would be! If all the men were one man, What a great man that would be! If all the axes were one axe, What a great axe that would be! And if the great man took the great axe, And cut down the great tree, And let if [sic] fall into the great sea, What a great splish-splash that would be!" ... How great would all of these things be?"	The tree and splash would be great. The others not so much.
91	2014-04-08 1w later		Faucet Power	"I just moved into a new apartment. It includes hot water but I have to pay the electric bill. So being a person on a budget ... what's the best way to use my free faucet to generate electricity?"	Just give it away as drinking water.
92	2014-04-15 1w later		One-Second Day	"What would happen if the Earth's rotation were sped up until a day only lasted one second?"	Everything on Earth would die, but if it happened when the Moon crosses the plane of the Earth, then everything in the Solar System will die (whether there is a difference is debatable).
93	2014-04-22 1w later		Windshield Raindrops	"At what speed would you have to drive for rain to shatter your windshield?"	Fast enough so you would need a speedometer in scientific notation.
94	2014-04-29 1w later		Billion-Story Building	"My daughter — age 4.5 — maintains she wants a billion-story building. It turns out not only is that hard to help her appreciate this size, I am not at all able to explain all of the other difficulties you'd have to overcome."	First of all, it would not stand under its own weight. Also, it would be many times the distance the Earth is from the Moon.
95	2014-05-06 1w later		Pyramid Energy	"What took more energy, the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Apollo Mission? If we could convert the energy to build the Great Pyramid, would it be enough to send a rocket to the Moon and back?"	No
96	2014-05-14 1w later		$2 Undecillion Lawsuit	"What if Au Bon Pain lost this lawsuit and had to pay the plaintiff $2 undecillion?"	They would not be able to pay off the debt, even if they forced humanity to work as slaves from now until the stars die.
97	2014-05-20 1w later		Burning Pollen	"What if you were to somehow ignite the pollen that floats around in the air in spring? Other than being a really bad idea, what effect would it have?"	It would just warm up the air by a bit.
98	2014-05-27 1w later		Blood Alcohol	"Could you get drunk from drinking a drunk person's blood?"	Not before other nasty things happened.
99	2014-06-03 1w later		Starlings	"I was watching this video and was wondering: How many birds there would need to be for gravity to take over and force them into a gargantuan ball of birds?"	Enough to make a black hole
100	2014-06-11 1w later		WWII Films	"Did WWII last longer than the total length of movies about WWII? For that matter, which war has the highest movie time:war time ratio?"	From here on standard release day was Wednesday.
101	2014-06-18 1w later		Plastic Dinosaurs	"As plastic is made from oil and oil is made from dead dinosaurs, how much actual real dinosaur is there in a plastic dinosaur?"	Not much
102	2014-06-25 1w later		Keyboard Power	"As a writer, I'm wondering what would be the cumulative energy of the hundreds of thousands of keystrokes required to write a novel."	Less than enough energy to microwave a burrito.
103	2014-07-02 1w later		Vanishing Water	"What would happen if all the bodies of water on Earth magically disappeared?"	Like with most of the other scenarios, everyone dies.
104	2014-07-09 1w later		Global Snow	"From my seven-year-old son: How many snowflakes would it take to cover the entire world in six feet of snow? (I don't know why six feet...but that's what he asked.)"	Too many.
105	2014-07-16 1w later		Cannibalism	"How long could the human race survive on only cannibalism?"	................................
106	2014-07-23 1w later		Ink Molecules	"Suppose you were to print, in 12 point text, the numeral 1 using a common cheap ink-jet printer. How many molecules of the ink would be used? At what numerical value would the number printed approximately equal the number of ink molecules used?"	An 18 digit number.
107	2014-07-30 1w later		Letter to Mom	"What’s the fastest way to get a hand-written letter from my place in Chicago to my mother in New Jersey?"	Missiles, obviously.
108	2014-08-13 2w later		Expensive Shoebox	"What would be the most expensive way to fill a size 11 shoebox (e.g. with 64 GB MicroSD cards all full of legally purchased music)?"	There are many options (precious materials, hard drugs, physical file storage, etc.), but they all cap out at ~$2,000,000,000.
109	2014-08-20 1w later		Into the Blue	"If I shot an infinitely strong laser beam into the sky at a random point, how much damage would it do?"	Most of the time it would not hit anything.
110	2014-08-27 1w later		Walking New York	"Could a person walk the entire city of NY in their lifetime? (including inside apartments)"	30 years to walk, much longer for the sentence.
111	2014-09-02 1w later		All the Money	"People sometimes say "If I had all the money in the world ..." in order to discuss what they would do if they had no financial constraints. I'm curious, though, what would happen if one person had all of the world's money?"	The only thing to do would be to make a swimming pool, as it is unlikely anybody else would agree with your claims to all the money and property.
112	2014-09-17 2w later		Balloon Car	"My 12-year-old daughter is proposing an interesting project. She is planning to attach a number of helium balloons to a chair, which in turn would be tethered by means of a rope to a Ferrari. Her 13-year-old friend would then drive the Ferrari around, while she sits in the chair enjoying uninterrupted views of the countryside. Leaving aside the legal and insurance difficulties, my daughter is keen to know the maximum speed that she could expect to attain, and how many helium balloons would be required."	A balloon just big enough to lift you would be pushed down by the wind, and a balloon big enough to counteract that would lift up the car along with you. The way to achieve this result is parasailing.
113	2014-09-24 1w later		Visit Every State	"How fast could you visit all 50 states?"	In just over 6 hours, in 5 satellite orbits.
114	2014-10-01 1w later		Antimatter	"What if everything was antimatter, EXCEPT Earth?"	Our existence would end, but much slower than in most other situations, from outer-space gas and meteorites.
115	2014-10-08 1w later		Into the Sun	"When I was about 8 years old, shoveling snow on a freezing day in Colorado, I wished that I could be instantly transported to the surface of the Sun, just for a nanosecond, then instantly transported back. I figured this would be long enough to warm me up but not long enough to harm me. What would actually happen?"	You would not be warmed if you went to the surface. The core, on the other hand, would vapourize you.
116	2014-10-15 1w later		No-Rules NASCAR	"If you stripped away all the rules of car racing and had a contest which was simply to get a human being around a track 200 times as fast as possible, what strategy would win? Let's say the racer has to survive."	If the rider has to survive, 90 minutes is the limit based on human G-force tolerances. If survival is not a priority, you have built a particle accelerator.		This template has been retired and is no longer in use. Use {{book}} instead.
117	2014-10-23 1w later		Distant Death	"What is the farthest from Earth that any Earth thing has died?"	The farthest that any human has died is about 167 kilometers. In terms of any living thing, however, bacterial spores on Voyager 1 are dying every few months, setting a new record each time.
118	2014-10-30 1w later		Physical Salary	"What if people's incomes appeared around them as cash in real time? How much would you need to make to be in real trouble?"	A normal person would not get buried. A CEO, on the other hand, would be in trouble.
119	2014-11-13 2w later		Laser Umbrella	"Stopping rain from falling on something with an umbrella or a tent is boring. What if you tried to stop rain with a laser that targeted and vaporized each incoming droplet before it could come within ten feet of the ground?"	It would be very complicated, not worth it, and would probably catch everything around you on fire.
120	2014-11-20 1w later		Alternate Universe What Ifs	"Dispatches from a horrifying alternate universe"
121	2014-12-11 3w later		Frozen Rivers	"What would happen if all of the rivers in the US were instantly frozen in the middle of the summer?"	Every river in the US would flood, but we'd probably be fine.
122	2014-12-18 1w later		Lava Lamp	"What if I made a lava lamp out of real lava? What could I use as a clear medium? How close could I stand to watch it?"	It would be too bright to watch and it would turn into rock quickly.