What if a spacecraft slowed down on re-entry to just a few miles per hour using rocket boosters like the Mars-sky-crane? Just more FAKE NEWS!". you would not be warmed if you went to the surface. In most cases this tends to heat the bowl or plate more than the food. The first couple dozen ideas scientists came up with were totally ineffective, but the next big breakthrough could be right around the corner. Assuming you are in a area with a reasonable amount of birds. The head of the U.S. When, if ever, will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than of living ones? If Michael Phelps could hold his breath indefinitely, how long would it take for him to reach the lowest point in the ocean and back if he swam straight down and then straight back up? How big of a lawn would you have to have so that when you finished mowing you'd need to start over because the grass has grown? Nuking hurricanes is in line with his long-held fascination with and trust in nuclear power and nuclear weapons. From here on standard release day was Thursday. 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). What if there was a robot apocalypse? Liquid gallium? it gets, we can try a formula from the 1971 paper Evaluation of 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. How quickly would the ocean's drain if a circular portal 10 meters in radius leading into space was created at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest spot in the ocean? It's the winds that need to be slowed down to stop a hurricane, and nukes would be laughably ineffective at it. I saw a sign at a hot springs tub saying "Caution: Water is hotter than average" with water at about 39C. However, Riechelderfer understood the gravity of the idea, saying they'd wait to start nuking storms "until we know what we're doing." the surrounding waterthat lingers for some time. Whats the fastest way to get a hand-written letter from my place in Chicago to my mother in New Jersey? Why not nuke a hurricane? But what if we could stop a hurricane in its tracks? 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? the coast, the waves would be no worse than those from a bad storm. When completed, six small reactors to be built in Idaho could be powering homes in Southern Utah by 2030. Most of the tests, however, involved either small bombs or shallow What is the farthest from Earth that any Earth thing has died? If not, then we all die. exhaustively examines and summarizes all available research about the Here's What Would Happen If You Nuked A Hurricane, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports. When they do, you have to pause between letters, making those words annoying to type. It turns out, you'd need a lot of nukes and a lot of power. After two 8 weeks breaks this one waited almost three months. The column of deep, hot water from our nuke could conceivably What could I use as a clear medium? "People were astonished. So, you're falling from a height above the tallest building in your town, and you don't have a parachute. And, for reasons we'll get into, it would be. 30 years to walk, much longer for the sentence. Am I right to be afraid of pressure cookers? A normal person would not get buried. What do we do with this?'". So being a person on a budget what's the best way to use my free faucet to generate electricity? How far would a tungsten countertop descend if I dropped it into the Sun? Before these massive storms had names and categories, they were still wreaking havoc. If it's possible, what would a lunar ("holar"?) There is a water average. We could possibly spend a ton of money and resources to get a probe to Voyager. part of the ocean. completely. You are in a boat directly over the Mariana Trench. More details. My daughter recently received her driver's permit in the US, and aspires to visit mainland Europe someday. Would the storm cell be immediately vaporized? "People were astonished. In fact, weve actually tried it a bunch of times. As the chunks of rock fall back It should be noted that Trump denied the original report (by tweet, calling it "FAKE NEWS") and reiterated his denial when Biden mentioned it. And cut down the great tree, What would happen if you were taking a shower or standing under a waterfall when you were struck by lightning? First regular release. sprawling 400-page report produced for the Department of Defense by The final six articles in this period were released on four different week days, only two of them with one week apart. The larger fish tended to be stunned for slightly longer because of their larger surface area but I don't imagine this relationship would be maintained for very large animals. Liquid tungsten? That's scientist talk for "We are so screwed." less than enough energy to microwave a burrito. 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. the continental shelf. Astrophysicists are always saying things like "This mission to this comet is equivalent to throwing a baseball from New York and hitting a particular window in San Francisco." If all the trees were one tree, It includes hot water but I have to pay the electric bill. When - if ever - will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx? Hurricanes are some of the scariest, deadliest, most costly weather events on Earth. 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. She has learned enough about the rules of the road to know never to drive into the ocean; however, she jokingly suggested that given a sufficient quantity of rental cars, she could eventually get to Europe by driving east repeatedly. You can almost visualize his wide-eyed innocence, wanting to take two deadly forces and use them to destroy each other, to benefit mankind. The 'reality' and consequences of using multiple cars (that are not your own) to construct a trans-Atlantic highway. What about bromine? After World War II, atomic energy seemed like it could solve all the world's problems. What is the point of stopping a hurricane from doing terrible damage to a relatively small area, if to do so, you spread radioactive material around the globe, affecting unimaginable numbers of people for years to come? into the atmosphere, they heat to a glowlike meteorsigniting global ", "I never said that," Trump retorted. The bar representing Uranium is so large that it extends onto a stack of paper taller than a human]] Between the famine and the fires, most life on Earth is Answer: NO!!!!! 195 years. To figure out how big What would happen from the impact of the mountain falling 1 inch? Reed died in 2007. Fortunately for the coast, these waves are fundamentally different from If you have a good arm, you could probably throw this book about 45 feet. At 53 megatons, the Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, and at 11 kilometers, the Mariana (s) Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. Luckily for the coast, later research paints a less dire picture. Though he reportedly . 65-million-year-old Chicxulub impact sitethis Surely NOAA would tell people to dream big? Hurricanes are definitely worse than they used to be. What if people's incomes appeared around them as cash in real time? No, but it does make some really cool patterns. If the explosion NOAA, who are so obviously at the end of their rope on this subject, explained how radioactive fallout making it to land after we nuke a hurricane is less than ideal. If we ever got desperate enough to try to nuke a hurricane and crossed our fingers that something unexpected would happen, we might be rather disappointed when that unexpected thing was a disaster we could never have predicted. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). Obviously, my boyfriend had to go without pizza until he landed at JFK. After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f*ck? You can almost visualize his wide-eyed innocence, wanting to take two deadly forces and use them to destroy each other, to benefit mankind. "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. The first scenarios are pretty boring. Surprisingly fast, but beware destroying the city, and fines. The second break came a year after the first and was also a Christmas break before article 77 was released on December 31, 2013. In Washington City, power director Rick Hansen explained to the council there was an . 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? is a blog hosted on the xkcd.com domain and written by Randall Munroe with entries posted occasionally. You just might not be prepared for how big you will need to be dreaming. At what point in human history were there too many (English) books to be able to read them all in one lifetime? The culprit was a comet or a wonderful account of the unraveling of that mystery. Sanvu could whip up a spray containing fallout from the blast, and Could it navigate? "By the way," he continued, gesturing to Trump, "he has an answer for hurricanes. What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place? Unlike other sites which answer readers' questions, what if? like with most of the other scenarios, everyone dies. My son (5y) asked me today: If there were a kind of a fireman's pole from the Moon down to the Earth, how long would it take to slide all the way from the Moon to the Earth? Again. He liked these questions so much that he started up What If. How long could the human race survive on only cannibalism? This site is not under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License like xkcd is. What's the likelihood this could happen? We would see a variety of benefits across our lives but we would also freeze and die. 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? off deep underwater acts a bit differently. 2 came out. Maybe a bigger nuke could stop a hurricane? Fast enough so you would need a speedometer in scientific notation. Sugar: 19 Lighter winds outside the clouds steer them and help them grow. If you're thinking about buying it, here are some things you might want to know: Humans can't digest the cellulose in paper, but if we could, eating this book would give you about 2,300 calories (including the cover). The area is now marked by a 100-kilometer-wide scar of magma sizzling The bubble grows to about a kilometer across in a couple of seconds. After World War II, they started trying in a big way. It hasn't set and it won't for thousands of years. On June 1, Democratic Texas Representative Sylvia Garcia introduced the Climate Change and Hurricane Correlation and Strategy Act, which would explicitly prohibit the president or any other federal agency official from using a nuclear bomb or other "strategic weapon" to alter weather patterns or addressing climate change. gigaton nuclear weapons as wave generators. 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.. He said, 'Maybe we should drop a nuclear weapon on them. The Mariana Trench is gone, and with it Guam and the Mariana Islands. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely? A nuke set The problem, though, is that hurricanes emit a mind-boggling level of energy. (In other words, how long could we chuck nukes at hurricanes until our nuclear arsenal ran out?). But spiders are a lot more scary. How great would all of these things be? But those are waves from an explosion close to the surface. Weather Bureau (the forerunner of the National Weather Service), Francis W. Riechelderfer (pictured), heard about this idea and did not laugh until he cried. 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. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). . As long as you don't touch strange things and you don't swim too close to the fuel rods, it would be just like a regular pool. Not much. Of course, thats getting a little far-fetched. For a more brief and arrangeable list, see. But beware of messing with the Texans. Could I cool down the Earth by capturing a comet and dropping it in the ocean, like an ice cube in a glass of water? It would be a bunch of boulders with some patches of sand. As the first two were released on week 1, this means that there were 134 articles released over the next 143 weeks, meaning there were only 9 weeks without an article. What in my pocket actually contains more energy, my Zippo or my smartphone? (including inside apartments). The question is, how many vehicles would it take to build a car-bridge across the Atlantic? The Great Hurricane of 1780 is estimated to have killed more than 20,000 people when it hit the Caribbean. What about using a squirrel suit? Second and longest break so far of two long breaks in a row, the 12th break in total. What if the Earth were made entirely of protons, and the Moon were made entirely of electrons? Other than being a really bad idea, what effect would it have? If you drop a 7kg bowling ball over the side, how long would it take to hit the bottom? Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns? If they are radioactive, then they radiate energy. 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). It turns out the ramp would need to be five miles high (8 km) to make this possible, and that would be at a speed slower than walking. How big a hole do I need to dig before people suffocate? 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. That's more than 666 times bigger than the "Little Boy" bomb that the US dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. What would happen if a hair dryer with continuous power was turned on and put in an airtight 1x1x1 meter box? What would happen if the Moon were replaced with an equivalently-massed black hole? There's just too much of a chance that the unknown could happen and result in an epic, deadly disaster. What if I tried to re-enter the atmosphere in my car? It is the 2nd book published by Randall. Repeat. How much cornstarch can I rinse down the drain before unpleasant things start to happen? Even the mightiest hurricane begins life as a much smaller storm. I know that stirring does help to cool down the tea, but what if I were to stir it faster? . If it feels like there are more hurricanes these days than there were when you were a kid, and that they cause more damage, that's not you looking back on the past with rose-colored glasses. }}, 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/log_scale.png, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. 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? With today's technology, would it be possible to launch an unmanned mission to retrieve Voyager I? (I don't know why six feetbut that's what he asked.). Needless to say, this is not a good idea.". ocean waves created by nuclear explosions. Coal: 24 eclipse look like? The explosion at the bottom of the Mariana Trench will create a The comet either burns up in the atmosphere or speeds up global warming. This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 02:47. But is this something humanity might actually try one day? Could a person walk the entire city of NY in their lifetime? briefly glows the magma of the mantle. Even the U.S. government got involved in a big way. In addition to the heat energy from the water, How long could I stay safely at the surface? At what voltage would you have have to set the e-fisher? Some words have consecutive letters on the same number. What a great splish-splash that would be! The debris played a key role in identifying the 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. Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist at Colorado State's University's Tropical Meteorology Project, was talking about the U.S. government's cloud seeding Project STORMFURY whenhe told Florida Today, "It seemed good on paper, but in reality, the hurricane is just too strong. It would be vapourized before it got close to the Sun. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. What if you exploded a nuclear bomb (say, the Tsar Bomba) at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? The debris takes 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. From the very edge of the atmosphere and even then it might not be fully cooked. 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). what if? Earlier this year, Severe Tropical Storm Sanvu passed over the Mariana The release date in the archive is the wrong year 2014. What if you were to somehow ignite the pollen that floats around in the air in spring? In 1962, physicist Freeman Dyson wrote a memo discussing eight possible If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color? As a mole is such a high number this would be tricky. If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would Google's data warehouse be? 'My friend and I were arguing about what would happen if a bullet got struck by lightning, and we agreed that you should resolve it . This was announced on xkcd on January 31st when the comic 2575: What If? The majority of the worlds plants die and the food chain collapses When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British empire? quickly-expanding spherical cavity of hot steam. But the winds of a hurricane can destroy anything, on any level. How many molecules of the ink would be used? In the first Superman movie, Superman flies around Earth so fast that it begins turning in the opposite direction. Why can't we do that?" What would happen if you tried to fly a normal Earth airplane above different Solar System bodies? If you call a random phone number and say God bless you, what are the chances that the person who answers just sneezed? 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. It was published on September 2, 2014, and the UK edition of the book was published on September 4, 2014. What better weather to try to alter than hurricanes? Could you electrofish for a blue whale? 48,364 views Sep 26, 2019 1.4K Dislike Share Science Insider 2.24M subscribers Dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane is a decades-old idea for how to stop a. Or what if you were doing a backflip? We've been to the Moon! The report also claimed that Trump had raised the possibility of bombing hurricanes with another senior administration official, as detailed in a 2017 NSC memo. Would I be able to boil a cup of water by stirring? The ninth break in total. 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. What about 1 foot? How many unique English tweets are possible? What would it be like to swim in it? Would we ever generate enough power to offset the cost of the generators? Slackers. Getting it back is another story. Hurricanes cause destruction in lots of ways, but the big one is wind. What If? All that changes when this cat enters the equation: Lets say that when Im typing the above equation, the cat hops onto my "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting," the source told Axios. How strong, compared to a regular cup of tea, would the lake tea be? I've long thought about putting a flamethrower on the front of a car to melt snow and ice before you drive across it. My daughter age 4.5 maintains she wants a billion-story building. 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. Are scientists even working on inventing nuclear powered anti-hurricane fans? Her 13-year-old friend would then drive the Ferrari around, while she sits in the chair enjoying uninterrupted views of the countryside. Various Theoretical Models For Underwater After this less orderly period there came a period of 10 weeks in a row with 10 releases starting on January 1, 2015. 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. Problem solved, right? If you cheat, a bag a little smaller than the Moon. Earths crust dozens of miles across, leaving a hole through which The release day was fixed to once a week on a given weekday, except for a few articles that were delayed a day (or two) in one week, but then next week's article would again be released on the normal day. And let if [sic] fall into the great sea, {{Title text: Knuth Paper-Stack Notation: Write down the number on pages. These turned out to be the remains of North American forests Red successfully cuts off Blue and then dies shortly thereafter. Using nuclear weapons to destroy hurricanes is not a good idea, a US scientific agency has said, following reports that President . 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. 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. Since 2014, there's also a book of the blog. As plastic is made from oil and oil is made from dead dinosaurs, how much actual real dinosaur is there in a plastic dinosaur? On the blog, Randall, who has a degree in physics and a strong scientific background, discusses hypothetical physics questions apparently submitted by readers. What would happen if all of the rivers in the US were instantly frozen in the middle of the summer? The release date in the archive is the wrong month June. Or standing in a graphite field? Hurricanes [] Hurricane Where-The-Hell-Is-Bermuda []. If it lacks a closed circulation it is called a tropical disturbance. 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. Surely anything is possible if we put our minds to it, right, scientists? Probably not. 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. Let's say the racer has to survive. What would happen to the Earth if the Sun suddenly switched off? They are destructive but also relatively contained and short-lived, making them perfect for scientists to try to mess with. 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. underwater. But it would be the same problem with nukes. 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. e.g. If cows could photosynthesize, how much less food would they need? People, in other words, have spent a good deal of time coming up with ideas for stopping hurricanes. Could a (small) rocket (with payload) be lifted to a high point in the atmosphere where it would only need a small rocket to get to escape velocity? If you make the words pronounceable by always alternating vowels and consonants, the names would be about 24 letters long. My 12-year-old daughter is proposing an interesting project. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. I just moved into a new apartment. How steep would the slope have to be to sustain the momentum needed to ride a bicycle the entire distance without pedaling? How would the Earth change as the water is being drained? Magic, because science just works like that. the last is devastating. bookprovides Gasoline: 46 early, and expend most of their energy creating a narrow surf zone on First and shortest of two long breaks in a row, the 11th break in total. [[A bar chart on a sheet of paper labeled "Fuel energy density in Megajoules 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? Instead,according to Popular Mechanics, he said he could "imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb on a hurricane far at sea." I'm curious, though, what would happen if one person had all of the world's money? 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