Comics that ask "what if?" | Randall Munroe
Comics that ask "what if?" | Randall Munroe
Web cartoonist Randall Munroe answers simple what-if questions (“what if you hit a baseball moving at the speed of light?”) using math, physics, logic and deadpan humor. In this charming talk, a reader’s question about Google’s data warehouse leads Munroe down a circuitous path to a hilariously over-detailed answer — in which, shhh, you might actually learn something.
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HIIIIIIII
I bought that book to read on the airplane :p.
Can I give more than one like?
…he still not update his blog for what if and the book… DISAPPOINTED!
Came here thinking Comics = Comedians. Took me some time to realize I was wrong
Eeeh, I was afraid his face and voice wouldn’t match what I like about the comic, but he actually sounds pretty much like I thought.
Which is the only time that’s *ever* happened. So it’s actually weirder.
This guy looks like he’s packing a big brain.
Thanks for warning I was just about to throw ball very fast!!!
If you pay attention to when a screen is shown in the background you see see that it is JUST off from how he is actually moving and it’s so annoying to see him make a circle and then the screen does it 5 nanoseconds later.
Would tat really,happen with a ball..doesn’t anything moving through,the air regardless of speed push air molecules out of,the way as it moves? I,don’t see why a higher speed,would,cause x rays..
Randal (trying to find out google’s data which is a secret to even the government): "its almost as simple as solving a sudoku puzzle"
He’s amazing !!!! Getting the book just now. Sending so much love nerd royalty !!!! 🌸♥️🌸♥️🌸♥️🌸🌠🌸🌠🌸🌠🌸🌠🌸🌸🌠
OMGG
meanwhile, in google’s Nerd-Snipe detector……
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merci infiniment pour ce travail de traduction
I must have watched this 4 times in my life
Google doesn’t know how many data-centers they have… That’s how powerful they actually are.
What if we used more power?
Skynet: Sends a robot back in time to kill you personally.
Google: NO COMMENT.
Does he work for XKCD?
Google: No comment. 🤣🤣🤣
My 13-year-old daughter HATES math. In the past, she just would refuse to do it. Since then, we’ve convinced her (somehow) to do her math homework, and she’s now at least getting by.
The other day, as I was walking by her, she exclaimed "Dad, I got 500 followers on Instagram! That’s a half a thousand!!!"
I retorted, "Now, how would you know that’s half a thousand? Math, right? YOU did MATH! And nobody made you do it!!!"
STILL, she refused to concede……….."math still sucks," she said.
Internet’s nuclear scientist in creating logically sound and mathematically correct memes😂
Let’s get back to that love after a broken heart question. 💔
Randall is simply the best
What’s the lesson??
I have his book What if translated to croatian it’s a lot of fun!
There he is, the man, the myth, the legend.
https://bookerystore.com/downloads/what-if-serious-scientific-answers-to-absurd-hypothetical-questions/
Oh my gosh, I finally knows what he looks like.
The Good Comic.
Some part of this is called Fermi Problem solving; check out fermiproblems.in if you want to learn how to think like that
Math is one helluva drug…
I was immediately confused when I saw him, because I was expecting a hat.
POLII
Imagine if Google would have rickrolled him…
The name of the "Airplane" is probably the literal sense of what level an object can operate on, it operates in the air-plane.
the latin word "planus" roughly equals to "level" or "slat" or simly a "plane". Just as submarine refers to "sub" which roughly means "under" and "marine" that refers to sea or water area of operation such as marine life equals to all that lives in the sea, so submarine would essentially mean "under-water-plane".
So airplane probably means a certain plane of existence rather than an object.
so a human with wheels and could fly the probably would get a similar name to: airplane people or human airplane
(note that this is a thoughtexperiment and not actual facts, exept for the latin)
In ancient Rome, five courtesans were on the bridge crossing the Tiber discussing prices with three potential clients, Horatius and two Etruscans.
What was the Horatio at the Bridge?
When I finally gain omnipotence and become God, the lightspeed baseball thing is the first thing I’ll do.
That’s the best way I have ever seen to waste my time.
Hey! He has the same last name as me.
Some guy at Google had a lot of free time
No comment.
between sentences you can hear him breathing
I enjoyed every moment of this talk.
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On that last question…. Make it ‘wings’ instead of ‘wheels’ and — Size ( even really big people are smaller than the smallest plane), speed (presumably not fast enough to start losing articles of clothing, but fast enough to get lift), cruising height above ground (the need to breath is a real limiter) lack of ability to show up on radar (unless they can pick up birds too then refer back to size), length of runway needed to land and take off ( if we had vertical capability, they would notice the lack of rotors on top), and so on… Or we could look at it from the way it was asked….They could tell at a glance that you had no registration numbers printed on your side and there for were not registered as a plane. Probably had no submitted flight plan, and therefore would probably end up crashing into other unregistered, flyers. Then the lack of burning and exploding on impact would probably be a dead give-away. Thank you very much! LOL
what a bunch of bullshit
My mum bought me his book some years ago, it was amazing!!!
I want to be his friend