It was almost a year ago that two comics had been released with less than two full weeks between them (that was #147 released February 26, 2016). After the break only three articles were released, two more were released after article 137 over three weeks, the last article 139 released on August 4, 2015. "Look how much we're paying now to deal with the hurricanes," Biden said. This has become known as the Countdown in header text, see all details on that page. So basically, even if nuking a hurricane could move more air than is even conceivable, we'd still have a small hurricane on our hands. The hole fills in, with huge columns of steam and great So scientists are pretty sure that nuking a hurricane would both do nothing to stop it and spread nuclear fallout around the globe. What would happen if all the bodies of water on Earth magically disappeared? So during the summer of 2016, it seemed it was down to about one release every two months but then it increased. Would you freeze or suffocate first? Within a dozen or so seconds, the bubble shrinks to a minimum size, then firestorms. 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. off the North American coast: Quantitative study of the destructive And if the great man took the great axe, I know that stirring does help to cool down the tea, but what if I were to stir it faster? Unlike the last article, out after almost a 15 weeks break, this one was released only a bit more than week after that. What would it be like to navigate a rowboat through a lake of mercury? A tropical cyclone is a generic term for a low-pressure system that formed over tropical waters (25S to 25N) with thunderstorm activity near the center of its closed, cyclonic winds. In his explanations, Randall, often uses diagrams in an xkcd style. Luckily for the coast, later research paints a less dire picture. Could it navigate? That turbulent warm water is actually quite substantial. After that articles began coming out regularly with a total of 9 releases out before the end of March 2016, mainly on Tuesdays to begin with, then one on a Friday before the last two came on Saturdays with two weeks breaks before each, the last being article 149 on March 26, 2016. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.". How long would humanity last? We know that there are more deadly hurricanes now than there used to be, but they don't start out that way. All incomplete explanations are here . On Sunday, Axios reported that Donald Trump has a rather extreme idea for hurricane preparedness: nuke the storms before they make landfall. Evin isnt the first person to think of setting off nuclear weapons My daughter age 4.5 maintains she wants a billion-story building. When a stack fits, write the number of iterations on a card. With less than 3 weeks between releases, releases seems to have become more regular in the beginning of 2017. Not in a "scatter my ashes" sense, but, like, "throw my naked corpse out the airlock" sense. It was published on September 2, 2014, and the UK edition of the book was published on September 4, 2014. Earths crust dozens of miles across, leaving a hole through which Hurricane Where-the-Hell-Is-Bermuda enters from the east side of the map, wanders around the Atlantic in a scribble, goes north for a while, and then peters out. What took more energy, the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Apollo Mission? The story of the three wise men got me wondering: What if you did walk towards a star at a fixed speed? Probably not. It turns out that if the waves are very large, they break From here on standard release day was Tuesday. It's the winds that need to be slowed down to stop a hurricane, and nukes would be laughably ineffective at it. We would see a variety of benefits across our lives but we would also freeze and die. How much Force power can Yoda output?). with 64 GB MicroSD cards all full of legally purchased music)? Let's say the racer has to survive. The release date in the archive is the wrong month June. How much would the sea level fall if every ship were removed all at once from the Earth's waters? The bubble grows to about a kilometer across in a couple of seconds. Honestly, my main motivation is to baffle someone in the distant future, but it's an interesting scientific question: what would happen to my body in orbit over the course of years, decades or centuries? If you make the words pronounceable by always alternating vowels and consonants, the names would be about 24 letters long. 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. I've long thought about putting a flamethrower on the front of a car to melt snow and ice before you drive across it. What English word has the most consecutive letters on the same key? early, and expend most of their energy creating a narrow surf zone on While the idea of hurricane police is awesome (and not any crazier than having a Space Force, really), it doesn't seem like you could get humanity on board with dropping 80 nuclear bombs every year to prevent a couple big hurricanes. After that they were released weekly for almost three years, with just a few times with two (and once three) weeks between releases, up until article 136 was released on April 12, 2015 (2 years and 40 weeks). 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? But what if we could stop a hurricane in its tracks? The only three weeks break, the sixth break in total. "People were astonished. Now imagine the energy required to stop five or six a year, every year. After this less orderly period there came a period of 10 weeks in a row with 10 releases starting on January 1, 2015. Stopping an asteroid with a laser on the other hand is a lot easier. water above bulges up, though only slightly, over a large area. I saw a sign at a hot springs tub saying "Caution: Water is hotter than average" with water at about 39C. 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? Would it be possible for two teams in a tug-o-war to overcome the ultimate tensile strength of an iron rod and pull it apart? From here on standard release day was Wednesday. HIDDEN FEATURE: The inside of this book has words and pictures, plus a special UK foreword. The nuclear explosion at the Marshall Islands-which irradiated . It would be a bunch of boulders with some patches of sand. From here on standard release day was again Tuesday. In addition to the heat energy from the water, This warm water creates humid air, which then gets thrust upwards by tropical winds to create storm clouds. For example, in the first article, he discusses what would happen if a baseball were pitched at 90% of the speed of light. He liked these questions so much that he started up What If. But it would be the same problem with nukes. (Assuming the average composition of rock were maintained.). How big a hole do I need to dig before people suffocate? have been enough to strengthen it into a typhoon, much as the deep warm Should the person survive, what would be the number of bouncy balls needed to kill them? According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 1013 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.". 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? The sixth two weeks break, tenth break in total. Here's what would happen if you nuked a hurricane. And mess they did. When my wife and I started dating she invited me over for dinner at one time. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). What if you shined a flashlight (or a laser) into a sphere made of one-way mirror glass? "Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems,"NOAA's hurricane page states. bookprovides How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the Sun? You know your house will flood from the bottom up. Would it eventually reach a point where it would float? 2 came out. Magic, because science just works like that. Obviously, the answer is to nuke them when they are still small and not an issue. Other than being a really bad idea, what effect would it have? My 12-year-old daughter is proposing an interesting project. Aim carefully. [[An unlabeled map shows the region roughly between central Canada and northern Brazil. How hard would a puck have to be shot to be able to knock the goalie himself backwards into the net? }}, xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 31 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS, https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/upcoming_hurricanes.png, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. What if we were to dump all the tea in the world into the Great Lakes? The website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. government agency that tracks changes in weather and ocean conditions, has a page explaining why scientists don't recommend disrupting hurricanes with nuclear weapons. Reed wasn't worried about fallout. No, at least not without starving to death quickly and leaving our pets, belongings and everything else behind. After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f*ck? Around the early 1990s, scientists started discovering jumbled fields of The most obvious concern when it comes to nuking a hurricane, of course, is nuclear fallout. Let's assume there's life on the the nearest habitable exoplanet and that they have technology comparable to ours. How much of the Earth's currently-existing water has ever been turned into a soft drink at some point in its history? National Geographic says it was a meteorologist named Jack W. Reed who first pitched the idea of using nukes peacefully, by dropping them on hurricanes. 0 618: Asteroid 696: Strip Games 786: Exoplanets 809: Los Alamos has not stopped but the first comic in 2017 (#153, January 30, 2017) came almost 15 weeks after the last in 2016, more than three months between releases. How many fairies would fly around, if each fairy is born from the first laugh of a child and fairies were immortal? Intense enough to cause a medium sized nuclear explosion. But the winds of a hurricane can destroy anything, on any level. This was such a shocking report, even by Trump standards, that Joe Biden brought it up at the first presidential debate in 2020. In Armageddon, a NASA guy comments that a plan to shoot a laser at the asteroid is like shooting a b.b. It is almost a year ago that two comics have been released with less than two full weeks between them (that was #147 released February 26, 2016). What about 1 foot? How great would all of these things be? This is neither aerodynamic nor a good idea. It is the 2nd book published by Randall. What would happen if you were in a boat, plane or a submarine that got hit by lightning? of 200-300 miles inland, whichever limit is reached first.. Ever since J. Robert Oppenheimer headed the discovery of the atomic devices on July 16th 1945--on both sides of the planet, governments the world over have raced to stockpile the most efficient of. I jokingly sent him a photo of a parrot holding a pizza slice in its beak. If you cheat, a bag a little smaller than the Moon. 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? During the first presidential debate, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed that Republican President Donald Trump once considered detonating a nuclear device inside of a hurricane to stop it. The heat release is equivalent. What would happen if you exploded a nuclear bomb in the eye of a hurricane? (We have an idea for selling bottled Europa water.). 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. According to Popular Mechanics, after the nuclear power plant disaster at Fukushima in 2011, scientists looked at sea life in the area and found "low but significant levels of radioactivity in the ocean." ", "I never said that," Trump retorted. Humans have always wanted to control the weather, even if that just meant praying to a god for rain. What percentage of the Sun's heat (per day) does the population of Earth eat in calories per year? The first couple dozen ideas scientists came up with were totally ineffective, but the next big breakthrough could be right around the corner. (a 2000 VW Jetta TDI). It's just a matter of time. He said, 'Maybe we should drop a nuclear weapon on them. James P. Kossin, a researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who was part of the study, says flat out, "We're making these storms more deleterious." How long could I stay safely at the surface? Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? Interesting to see if they will begin appearing regularly again during the spring of 2017, as seems possible with three articles in less than a month and #156 was again released with less than two weeks between it and #155. In 1962, physicist Freeman Dyson wrote a memo discussing eight possible The report, published in 1996, The book "Caesar's Last Breath" (via Vox) recounts the 1947 cloud seeding experiment on Hurricane King. What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop? happens near the surface, it can create some pretty big wavesunder some What would actually happen? Thisis what it looks What would it be like to swim in it? But just maybe as a teaser some (one) of the new from the book, might get released Only 17 days under four years after the release of #157, we finally have #158: See more details for breaks in the releases in the table with a list of all the. The second longest break up til summer 2016, the only one to have been announced. How much would you need to make to be in real trouble? Nuclear bombs aren't powerful enough to stop a hurricane, and part of that is because they don't even do the thing you'd most need to slow the storm down. Her kitchen had something called Bauhaus chairs, which are full of holes, approx 5-6 millimeters in diameter in both back and seat. First and shortest of two long breaks in a row, the 11th break in total. Hurricane cos(x) forms a graph of cos(x) along the bottom edge of the map.]] Between the famine and the fires, most life on Earth is 195 years. 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? What would happen if one tried to funnel Niagara Falls through a straw? The result would be some kind of nuclear explosion. Just under four years passed before a new What If. ", The site wrote that during a hurricane briefing, which occurred early into the first year of Trump's presidency, Trump allegedly said, "[Hurricanes] start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Since then there was no new posts for almost four years. Slackers. What injuries would occur and what would the associated crimes be? What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? First after 17 more weeks releases began again with article 141 on Tuesday January 16, 2016. Actually, it would be more clean than it is currently! The New START, signed by then-presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in 2010, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. In fact, weve actually tried it a bunch of times. Is there any way to fire a gun so that the bullet flies through the air and can then be safely caught by hand? A decade or a century, depending if Facebook would still be popular. Freemans son, science historian George Dyson, got a paper copy of the This memo has been declassified, but was never published. Maybe a bigger nuke could stop a hurricane? All that changes when this cat enters the equation: Lets say that when Im typing the above equation, the cat hops onto my I use one of those old phones where you type with numbersfor example, to type "Y", you press 9 three times. near future, and outlined the potential military uses and dangers of Hurricane Screw-It-Let's-Just-Trash-Florida-Again comes from the east, starts to curve to the north, and then turns sharply to head straight for Florida and zigzag through it. to rapidly intensify. Since Death Valley is below sea level could we dig a hole to the ocean and fill it up with water? 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? My daughter recently received her driver's permit in the US, and aspires to visit mainland Europe someday. NOAA says the idea is still popular,noting on their official website, "During each hurricane season, there always appear suggestions that one should simply use nuclear weapons to try and destroy the storms.". circumstances, they can be hundreds of feet high near ground zero. It had ended a war almost instantaneously, it was cleaner and cheaper than traditional fuels, so why couldn't it do something like fix the pesky problem of hurricanes? Would we ever generate enough power to offset the cost of the generators? Those storms don't even get names, so they can't be that big a deal. Would the storm cell be immediately vaporized? part of the ocean. The Mariner 1 has traveled much farther than Voyager 1. If our Twitter timelines (tweets by the people we follow) actually extended off the screen in both directions, how tall would they be? The debris takes Partway down the side of that skyscraper there's a flagpole sticking out, sans flag! The others not so much. What if you strapped C4 to a boomerang? After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f*ck? Regardless of the context, Randall tends to take the questions extremely literally and responds seriously to them, even if they are whimsical (such as the Yoda question). If it lacks a closed circulation it is called a tropical disturbance. I bike to class sometimes. what if? I was absentmindedly stirring a cup of hot tea, when I got to thinking, "aren't I actually adding kinetic energy into this cup?" Crypto Explosion: \[\text{Radius} = \left (\frac{3}{4\pi}\right )^\frac{1}{3}\left ( \frac{40 \% \times 53\text{ megatons of TNT}}{\text{Mariana Trench pressure}+\text{1 ATM}} \right)^\frac{1}{3}\approx580\text{ meters}\]. Sugar: 19 65-million-year-old Chicxulub impact sitethis It should be noted that Trump denied the original report (by tweet, calling it "FAKE NEWS") and reiterated his denial when Biden mentioned it. Unlike other sites which answer readers' questions, what if? (The Metric System). rim. August 26, 2019. "He made it up. A bizarre 60-year-old idea to fight hurricanes using nuclear weapons resurfaced this week after Axios reported that President Trump raised the possibility with his national security advisors.. Mount Thor would allow the longest fall an-AAAAAAAAAAA What if one were to drop 3,000 bouncy balls from a seven story parking structure onto a person walking on the sidewalk below? waters of the Gulf of Mexicos Loop Current sometimes cause hurricanes What if there was a lake on the Moon? Instead, it blows a hole in the into the atmosphere, they heat to a glowlike meteorsigniting global Not much. If you made a beach using grains the proportionate size of the stars in the Milky Way, what would that beach look like? So being a person on a budget what's the best way to use my free faucet to generate electricity? What would happen from the impact of the mountain falling 1 inch? 30 years to walk, much longer for the sentence. The 'reality' and consequences of using multiple cars (that are not your own) to construct a trans-Atlantic highway. With a bigger bomb, it could destroy the world. We've had examples of it before. But those are waves from an explosion close to the surface. 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? Biking at that speed would make your body generate so much heat your core temperature would reach fatal levels in seconds. Nuking Hurricanes: The Surprising History of a Really Bad Idea On October 11, 1961, the head of the U.S. Hurricanes emit a mind-boggling amount of energy. Just more FAKE NEWS!". exhaustively examines and summarizes all available research about the Also, it would be many times the distance the Earth is from the Moon. What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world? Most of the what if? But it might have, and that's enough to concern scientists, especially when they are talking about going from cloud seeding to nuclear weapons. Suppose you were to print, in 12 point text, the numeral 1 using a common cheap ink-jet printer. It's difficult to envision a practical way of moving that much air around.". The explosion at the bottom of the Mariana Trench will create a Reed died in 2007. After acknowledging that the question has been answered elsewhere, he recaps the result, but then focuses more intently on the unasked resulting issue of the aftermath of everyone on Earth being magically transported to one location as they all try to return home. If not, then we all die. What do we do with this?'" What If We Nuked A Hurricane? You would have to go 200m/s. In 2022 the follow up book What If? asteroid hitting the Yucatanthe impact that killed most of the I got it. If we hooked turbines to people exercising in gyms, how much power could we produce? ", Still, we shouldn't stop people from dreaming. After World War II, they started trying in a big way. would reach to a height of 200-300 feet above sea level, or a distance This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). Every now and then we have to insert a leap second because the Earths rotation is slowing down. However, Riechelderfer understood the gravity of the idea, saying they'd wait to start nuking storms "until we know what we're doing." That's more than 666 times bigger than the "Little Boy" bomb that the US dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. As plastic is made from oil and oil is made from dead dinosaurs, how much actual real dinosaur is there in a plastic dinosaur? "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting," the source told Axios. The final six articles in this period were released on four different week days, only two of them with one week apart. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. Enough soda to cover Earth with ten layers of cans. But what about the edge of ultracentrifuges, or generator turbines that have been running for years, for example? I used to work on a fisheries crew where we would use an electro-fisher backpack to momentarily stun small fish (30 - 100 mm length) so we could scoop them up with nets to identify and measure them. What if a huge mountainDenali, sayhad the bottom inch of its base disappear? Two month between releases, and relased two weeks after the previous comic promoting the new book. No underwater test has involved bombs anywhere near How many molecules of the ink would be used? If all the seas were one sea, A 2016 National Geographic article also explained that detonating a nuke inside a hurricane could violate the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. If I shot an infinitely strong laser beam into the sky at a random point, how much damage would it do? What if the entire continental US was on a decreasing slope from West to East. The area is now marked by a 100-kilometer-wide scar of magma sizzling We've been to the Moon! How long could the human race survive on only cannibalism? In the memo, one of the eight ideas Freeman discusses is the use of What would happen if you tried to fly a normal Earth airplane above different Solar System bodies? So I suppose the question is what is the optimal time to heat left over Chinese food in the microwave, how about an 800 watt microwave? In Washington City, power director Rick Hansen explained to the council there was an . If every country's airspace extended up forever, which country would own the largest percentage of the galaxy at any given time? It would be too bright to watch and it would turn into rock quickly. 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