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Munroe, Randall

 
9780544272996: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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ISBN 10 : 0544272994 ISBN 13 : 9780544272996
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

Synopsis

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans’ strangest questions.

The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical:

• What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?

• Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?

• What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City?

• Are fire tornadoes possible?

His responses are masterpieces of clarity and wit, gleefully and accurately explaining everything from the relativistic effects of a baseball pitched at near the speed of light to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements.

The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.

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À propos de l'auteur

RANDALL MUNROE, a former NASA roboticist, is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and the author of xkcd: volume 0. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him; asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause a mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like earth.

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Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0544272994
ISBN 13 
9780544272996
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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