What If?: Serious Scientific Answer to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

• Randall Munroe

• Rating: 4.5

• The creator of the incredibly popular webcomic xkcd presents his heavily researched answers to his fans' oddest questions, including “What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?” and “Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?” 100,000 first printing.

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