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. This memo has been declassified, but was never published. eclipse look like? At what numerical value would the number printed approximately equal the number of ink molecules used? They're so huge, they're so powerful." Between the famine and the fires, most life on Earth is The hole fills in, with huge columns of steam and great What would happen if you exploded a nuclear bomb in the eye of a hurricane? "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," the page states. 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? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. 40000 people and some magic. What about bromine? "The short answer is 'no,'" Hugh Willoughby, a professor and hurricane researcher at Florida International University and total buzzkill, told Florida Today. Huge volumes of rock and water are blasted into space. Give the signmakers some credit. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. It was published on September 2, 2014, and the UK edition of the book was published on September 4, 2014. Tropical cyclones derive their energy from vertical temperature differences, are symmetrical, and have a warm core. detonated, and at 11 kilometers, the Mariana(s) Trench is the deepest (I don't know why six feetbut that's what he asked.). What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world? After effectively describing what would occur as a nuclear explosion, leveling the stadium and the surrounding mile radius, he concludes with the note "A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered 'hit by pitch', and would be eligible to advance to first base.". Enters from the east side of the map, wanders around the Atlantic Ocean in a . book on 12 March 2014 in the blag. What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place? If our Twitter timelines (tweets by the people we follow) actually extended off the screen in both directions, how tall would they be? I figured this would be long enough to warm me up but not long enough to harm me. It seemed like a safe bet to test cloud seeding on the dying storm. }}, 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. This work is licensed under a After World War II, atomic energy seemed like it could solve all the world's problems. Liquid tungsten? Fat: 39 And it's not possible anyway, since nukes are not giant, cutting-edge fans. What would it be like to swim in it? petrified wood mixed with sand buried beneath the Louisiana and Texas Reed wasn't worried about fallout. What if you were to somehow ignite the pollen that floats around in the air in spring? The culprit was a comet or And since currents move everything in the ocean around, radioactive fallout would not stay in one place and would definitely make it to land eventually. What if you released a submarine into Jupiter's atmosphere? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. off deep underwater acts a bit differently. It's very unpromising. It is just like 'xkcd:volume 0' a compilation of some questions from the website, but half of them are new. Is there any way to fire a gun so that the bullet flies through the air and can then be safely caught by hand? Which has a greater gravitational pull on me: the Sun, or spiders? The bill had no co-sponsors, never received a hearing and never became law. How strong, compared to a regular cup of tea, would the lake tea be? 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 (now Russia), possibly increasing the arms race tensions between the two countries. 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. guns? Repeat. Possibly the Apollo Astronauts but they definitely weren't lonely. The world just has too many people. Sugar: 19 What would happen if the Moon were replaced with an equivalently-massed black hole? near future, and outlined the potential military uses and dangers of But it might have, and that's enough to concern scientists, especially when they are talking about going from cloud seeding to nuclear weapons. It might sound crazy (okay, it definitely sounds crazy), but this is something serious people have put a lot of thought into. ocean waves created by nuclear explosions. 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. is a blog hosted on the xkcd.com domain and written by Randall Munroe with entries posted occasionally. 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. If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive? Red successfully cuts off Blue and then dies shortly thereafter. What is the longest possible sunset you can experience while driving, assuming we are obeying the speed limit and driving on paved roads? part of the ocean. What if everyone who took the SAT guessed on every multiple-choice question? This is clear from his response to the question of what would happen if everybody on Earth stood together and jumped at the same time. The second longest break up til summer 2016, the only one to have been announced. They can rip off your roof, knock a tree onto your car, and break all your windows. Biking at that speed would make your body generate so much heat your core temperature would reach fatal levels in seconds. At what voltage would you have have to set the e-fisher? 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). ", In August 2019, the news website Axios wrote that sources who heard the president's private remarks in recorded comments in a National Security Council (NSC) memorandum claimed to have heard Trump asking top national security officials to "consider using nuclear bombs to weaken or destroy hurricanes. What's the likelihood this could happen? Why can't we do that?" {{Title text: Knuth Paper-Stack Notation: Write down the number on pages. How great would all of these things be? A decade or a century, depending if Facebook would still be popular. No, not even if we change the requirements to just the passengers staying alive. 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. Don't take any chances. In the memo, one of the eight ideas Freeman discusses is the use of Well, sort of. But why would you. Problem solved, right? How many molecules of the ink would be used? Even the mightiest hurricane begins life as a much smaller storm. 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. What if you shined a flashlight (or a laser) into a sphere made of one-way mirror glass? Liquid nitrogen? memo from his father, and was kind enough to show it to me. "As far as I know, there's no serious scientist doing this at all. We kept the chairs for five years but despite laborious attempts it couldn't be reproduced. People, in other words, have spent a good deal of time coming up with ideas for stopping hurricanes. Just more FAKE NEWS!". If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color? At what speed would you have to drive for rain to shatter your windshield? have been enough to strengthen it into a typhoon, much as the deep warm With close to 15 weeks this was the second longest break between articles so far. All that changes when this cat enters the equation: Lets say that when Im typing the above equation, the cat hops onto my He hadn't let go of his idea as of 2004. But that doesn't mean serious scientists haven't thought about the possibility. This new release is probably due to the upcoming release of the What If? There you have it. Would I be able to boil a cup of water by stirring? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. What a great splish-splash that would be! Sanvu could whip up a spray containing fallout from the blast, and waters of the Gulf of Mexicos Loop Current sometimes cause hurricanes 2 came out. When they do, you have to pause between letters, making those words annoying to type. Pin it to the stack. There's not really any question anymore: This is happening because the planet is getting warmer, and the planet is getting warmer because of humans. What would happen if all of the rivers in the US were instantly frozen in the middle of the summer? When my wife and I started dating she invited me over for dinner at one time. Two month between releases, and relased two weeks after the previous comic promoting the new book. And since I am already feeling like Bilbo in this one, is there anything else in my pocket that would have unexpected amounts of stored energy? Intense enough to cause a medium sized nuclear explosion. The second of two longer shifts in release day two weeks in a row which resulted in only two releases over three weeks, resulting in the eight break in total. We would see a variety of benefits across our lives but we would also freeze and die. Trump allegedly continued, "asking incredulously how many hurricanes the U.S. could handle." the surrounding waterthat lingers for some time. 6, but they would cost much more than you could afford. ", 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. As a writer, I'm wondering what would be the cumulative energy of the hundreds of thousands of keystrokes required to write a novel. like with most of the other scenarios, everyone dies. It is the 2nd book published by Randall. Answer: The International Niagara Committee, the International Niagara Board of Control, the International Joint Commission, the International Niagara Board Working Committee, and probably the Great LakesSt. 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. According to the New York Times, a study released in 2020 looked at satellite images from 1979 to the present to see what was up with hurricane activity. What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? 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. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). There's a lot of numbers involved, so let's have the experts at NOAA explain it: "A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 201013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. Uranium: 76 000 000 briefly glows the magma of the mantle. Using only pronounceable letter combinations, how long would names have to be to give each star in the universe a unique one word name? Usually the center but not always and usually rice, but often it will be a small section of meat. Could a person walk the entire city of NY in their lifetime? But scientists know they don't know everything and that is even scarier. I know that stirring does help to cool down the tea, but what if I were to stir it faster? How many bananas would you need to power a house? My 4 year old son and I were wondering about soccer ball sized hail today. What would happen if all the bodies of water on Earth magically disappeared? After that there were five more two weeks break, one three week break (before December 11, 2014) and two releases in a row (133-134 towards the end of this period of 136 articles), where the release dates where shifted so the two came out over three weeks' time with about 1.5 weeks between them. With today's technology, would it be possible to launch an unmanned mission to retrieve Voyager I? Or standing in a graphite field? When - if ever - will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx? Answer: A literal Death Star. The report outlines how when a nuclear weapon goes off underwater, it it just under the surface. expand into a bubble 70 miles across. What place on Earth would allow you to freefall the longest by jumping off it? 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? It's annoying biking in the wintertime, because it's so cold. No one would get a perfect score. Whats the fastest way to get a hand-written letter from my place in Chicago to my mother in New Jersey? What about 1 foot? (Also, Randall misspelled Bethlehem). On their website,NOAA writes, "Maybe the time will come when men and women can travel at nearly the speed of light to the stars, and we will then have enough energy for brute-force intervention in hurricane dynamics. Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns? "People were astonished. How much Force power can Yoda output?). The Mariana Trench is gone, and with it Guam and the Mariana Islands. Printing $100 bills 24/7 for a year can make you about $200 million per year. "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. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who get asked this question a lot, this is a very bad idea. How many unique English tweets are possible? Evins scenario concerns neither. into the atmosphere, they heat to a glowlike meteorsigniting global It would not have a big impact unless it happened during the space age. What if a huge mountainDenali, sayhad the bottom inch of its base disappear? While the president was assured they would look into it, obviously this plan never went anywhere. By Luke Darby. 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? What would happen to the Earth if the Sun suddenly switched off? They would not be able to pay off the debt, even if they forced humanity to work as slaves. Assuming you are in a area with a reasonable amount of birds. In Armageddon, a NASA guy comments that a plan to shoot a laser at the asteroid is like shooting a b.b. . ' I was absentmindedly stirring a cup of hot tea, when I got to thinking, "aren't I actually adding kinetic energy into this cup?" Yes, but you need to talk to the Russians to do it right. Hurricane cos(x) forms a graph of cos(x) along the bottom edge of the map.]] But it would be the same problem with nukes. column of heat creates a hot spot in the oceanmany degrees warmer than How long would humanity last? ", "I never said that," Trump retorted. Unlike the last article, out after almost a 15 weeks break, this one was released only a bit more than week after that. As the chunks of rock fall back Also, it would be many times the distance the Earth is from the Moon. What would be the best way of getting the energy from one to the other? What if you exploded a nuclear bomb (say, the Tsar Bomba) at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? These turned out to be the remains of North American forests In fact, weve actually tried it a bunch of times. Explanation []. no wave of any consequence will be generated.. Bernard Le Mehaute and Shen Wang. Would it eventually reach a point where it would float? Meteorologist Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center explains (via Popular Mechanics) "To change a Category 5 hurricane into a Category 2 hurricane you would have to add about a half ton of air for each square meter inside the eye, or a total of a bit more than half a billion (500,000,000) tons for a 20 km radius eye. If all the axes were one axe, For the answer, the universe would be destroyed. More details. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. terrifying passage describing the detonation of a submerged gigaton mine effects has not been made. What better weather to try to alter than hurricanes? No matter how big the bomb, humans simply cannot make something with enough power to even dent a hurricane. What took more energy, the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Apollo Mission? shooter is at sea level and catcher is up a mountain at the extreme range of the gun. The first of two longer shifts in release day two weeks in a row which resulted in only two releases over three weeks, resulting in the eight break in total. The questions Randall tackles range from realistic possibilities (e.g. How big a hole do I need to dig before people suffocate? Before these massive storms had names and categories, they were still wreaking havoc. If you have a good arm, you could probably throw this book about 45 feet. But what if we could stop a hurricane in its tracks? water above bulges up, though only slightly, over a large area. But what about the edge of ultracentrifuges, or generator turbines that have been running for years, for example? The seminal work in the field of nuclear ocean waves is Water Waves Generated By Underwater Explosions, a But spiders are a lot more scary. The others not so much. First and shortest of two long breaks in a row, the 11th break in total. Let's say the racer has to survive. Or looking straight up at the bolt? Although they were presumably trying to say "hotter than the average swimming pool," this got me wondering: What is the average temperature of all water on the Earths surface, and how does that temperature compare to 39C? The what if? How much would the sea level fall if every ship were removed all at once from the Earth's waters? How long would the Sun last if a giant water hose were focused upon it? Almost nobody would find their soul mate. What English word has the most consecutive letters on the same key? 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? It goes through three or four cycles of this collapse and expansion Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License, fall into Jupiter's atmosphere in a submarine, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=what_if&oldid=304504. This was announced on xkcd on January 31st when the comic 2575: What If? It's difficult to envision a practical way of moving that much air around.". More details. If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would Google's data warehouse be? 65-million-year-old Chicxulub impact sitethis The nuclear explosion at the Marshall Islands-which irradiated . Surprisingly fast, but beware destroying the city, and fines. What if every virus in the world were collected into one area? This has become known as the Countdown in header text, see all details on that page. First after 17 more weeks releases began again with article 141 on Tuesday January 16, 2016. The story of the three wise men got me wondering: What if you did walk towards a star at a fixed speed? If the stack is too tall to fit in the room, write down the number of pages it would take to write down the number. For that matter, which war has the highest movie time:war time ratio? Hurricanes cause destruction in lots of ways, but the big one is wind. Or something else? Maybe a bigger nuke could stop a hurricane? firestorms. off the North American coast: Quantitative study of the destructive dinosaurs. Second and longest break so far of two long breaks in a row, the 12th break in total. What if people's incomes appeared around them as cash in real time? We were both (luckily) amazed and surprised and I have often wondered what the odds are for something like that happening. What changes could be made to our diets for the amount of calories to equal the energy of the Sun? What If We Nuked A Hurricane? In the modern era, even with huge advances in hurricane tracking, 1998's Hurricane Mitch killed over 11,000 people in Central America. 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? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. 2 Countdown. First after 25 releases was there a two week Christmas break before article 26 was released on December 31, 2012. To figure out how big Assuming you had a good coat, you would survive to the death zone and die. Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. See the [[what if]] ''{{what if|147|Niagara Straw}}''. Yup, we can thank climate change for deadlier hurricanes. If cows could photosynthesize, how much less food would they need? First two months break of at least two in a row, the 15th break in total. The comet either burns up in the atmosphere or speeds up global warming. 2 book, in. Never use the Math markup language at the transcript. If, on the other hand, you're being attacked by a coyote, it's higher top speed means you'll have only one chance to hit it. From the very edge of the atmosphere and even then it might not be fully cooked. You would have to go 200m/s. What would happen if a hair dryer with continuous power was turned on and put in an airtight 1x1x1 meter box? Would I need to dive to actually experience a fatal amount of radiation? If all the seas were one sea, Or what if you were doing a backflip? If the Hubble telescope were aimed at the Earth, how detailed would the images be? Freemans son, science historian George Dyson, got a paper copy of the Slackers. In reality, the oceans arent that deep. With practice, it's possible to throw a book every 800 milliseconds, which means that if human attackers are sprinting towards you, you'll have three or four chances to hit them before they reach you. Lighter winds outside the clouds steer them and help them grow. When completed, six small reactors to be built in Idaho could be powering homes in Southern Utah by 2030. 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. If winds reached 500 mph, would it pick up a human? That is a lot of energy. He said, 'Maybe we should drop a nuclear weapon on them.'" Obviously, the answer is to nuke them when they are still small and not an issue. If the explosion Trench. Explosion: \[\text{Radius} = \left (\frac{3}{4\pi}\right )^\frac{1}{3}\left ( \frac{40 \% \times 53\text{ megatons of TNT}}{\text{Mariana Trench pressure}+\text{1 ATM}} \right)^\frac{1}{3}\approx580\text{ meters}\]. If I shot an infinitely strong laser beam into the sky at a random point, how much damage would it do? Getting it back is another story. Any time I attempt to heat left over Chinese food in a microwave, it fails to heat completely through somewhere. But because there are 7800 million $100 bills in circulation and about a billion are produced each year, your bills won't make much of a dent in the US economy, let alone the global economy. would reach to a height of 200-300 feet above sea level, or a distance HIDDEN FEATURE: The inside of this book has words and pictures, plus a special UK foreword. Earth would be unaffected but the human race would be wiped out due to everyone trying to get home at the same time. The rising That's scientist talk for "We are so screwed." We could possibly spend a ton of money and resources to get a probe to Voyager. Until then, perhaps the best solution is just learn to co-exist with them.". How far would a tungsten countertop descend if I dropped it into the Sun? This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). During a segment on climate change in the first presidential debate, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed that Republican President Donald Trump's plan for managing hurricanes once included dropping a nuclear weapon in one. (Assuming the average composition of rock were maintained.). How fast would I have to bike for my skin to warm up the way a spacecraft heats up during reentry? typically takes the question beyond the original scope likely intended by the reader and takes it to some extreme for humorous effect. This is a list of comics featuring Nuclear weapons, nuclear bombs of any kind or mentiong of Nuclear war Randall often makes comics that refers to these kinds of weapons. We've had examples of it before. This came out after a three week countdown revealing the image from the cover of the new book over 136 frames released with about 4 hours between each frame. In most cases this tends to heat the bowl or plate more than the food. Every now and then we have to insert a leap second because the Earths rotation is slowing down. What would it be like to navigate a rowboat through a lake of mercury? In the absence of an You can almost visualize his wide-eyed innocence, wanting to take two deadly forces and use them to destroy each other, to benefit mankind. Would it negate the need for a heat shield? And would it even work? 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? 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. rim. 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