What If? 2

Happy Birthday, 'What if?'! Die Sonderausgabe zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum des Weltbestsellers von Superstar Randall Munroe - mit brandneuen Zeichnungen, aktualisiert und gewohnt verrückt annotiert vom Meister höchstpersönlich!Fans des beliebten Webcomics 'xkcd' stellen Randall Munroe die unmöglichsten Fragen: Was würde geschehen, wenn man einen Baseball zu schlagen versuchte, der mit 90 Prozent der Lichtgeschwindigkeit geworfen wurde? Was wäre, wenn alle Menschen plötzlich von der Erde verschwänden? Und was geschieht mit der Erde, wenn der Mond sich davonmacht? Randall Munroe antwortet hochwissenschaftlich und umwerfend kreativ. Er führt Computersimulationen durch, löst Differentialgleichungen und untersucht ungewöhnliche Gegenstände unter extremen physikalischen Umständen. Zur Feier des 10-jährigen Geburtstags von 'What if?' hat der Meister der absurd-hypothetischen Wissenschaft seinen Blockbuster überarbeitet und das Abenteuer ums 10-Fache gesteigert. Diese Jubiläumsausgabe bietet noch mehr Spaß durch witzige Annotationen, Kommentare und brandneue zweifarbige Illustrationen. Das Must-have für alle Munroe-Fans und Verehrer der originellen Unterhaltung auf höchstem Niveau!

xkcd-Fans aufgepasst: Nach 'What if?' jetzt der weltoriginellste 'Self-Help-Guide' von Randall Munroe!Für jede Aufgabe, die sich uns stellt, gibt es einen richtigen Weg, einen falschen, und einen, der so offensichtlich absurd ist, dass man ihn niemals in Betracht ziehen würde. 'How to' ist eine Anleitung zu diesem dritten Ansatz. Es zeigt uns, wie wir digitale Daten versenden, indem wir USB-Sticks an Zugvögeln befestigen. Wie wir unserem Auto Starthilfe geben, indem wir elf Jahre auf eine Sonneneruption warten. Wie wir herausfinden, ob wir zur Generation der Babyboomer gehören oder ein Kind der Neunziger sind - nämlich, indem wir die Radioaktivität unserer Zähne messen lassen. Und wir erfahren, wie wir endlich pünktlich zu Verabredungen kommen: indem wir mal eben den Mond zerstören. Mit seinen berühmten Strichzeichnungen erklärt Randall Munroe, wie man einfache Probleme auf die allerschwierigste Weise bewältigen kann. Wie schon sein Bestseller 'What if?' ist 'How to' witzig und horizonterweiternd und hilft uns zu verstehen, welche wissenschaftlichen und technischen Phänomene unserem Alltag zugrunde liegen.Ausstattung: durchgehend illustriert

WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.<BR><BR>The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask.<BR><BR>The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger.<BR><BR>Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing.<BR><BR>Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer doors at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics.<BR><BR>Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-storey building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.<BR><BR>Welcome (back) to the mind-blowing world of What If?<BR><BR>Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers' questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.<BR><BR>Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall's signature stick-figure comics, What If? 2 is sure to be another instant classic adored by inquisitive readers of all ages.

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<BR> <BR> “How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To.” —CNET<BR> <BR> “[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz<BR> <BR>The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, and What If? 2, coming September 13, 2022<BR><BR>For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. <BR><BR>Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. <BR><BR>By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.

Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including:- food-heating radio boxes (microwaves)- tall roads (bridges)- computer buildings (datacenters)- the shared space house (the International Space Station)- the other worlds around the sun (the solar system)- the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates)- the pieces everything is made of (the periodic table)- planes with turning wings (helicopters)- boxes that make clothes smell better (washers and dryers)- the bags of stuff inside you (cells)How do these things work? Where do they come from? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we opened them up, heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever wondered how things work, and why.

Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Wonderful' Neil GaimanAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. 'How strange science can fix everyday problems' New Scientist'A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride' Nature

'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Totally brilliant' Tim HarfordWHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move mountains, fill the solar system with soup and alter the space-time continuum to answer them?Whether it's how to make a lava lamp out of lava or feeding the inhabitants of New York to a T. Rex, welcome to the weird, wonderful (and sometimes terrifying) world of WHAT IF? 2