If so, how many golf balls would be required to reach the Moon? Give the signmakers some credit. This has become known as the Countdown in header text, see all details on that page. Or what if you were doing a backflip? I got it. What would happen if all of the rivers in the US were instantly frozen in the middle of the summer? With the announced release of the what if? (I don't know why six feetbut that's what he asked.). Later he released a different countdown with comic 2636: What If? Are scientists even working on inventing nuclear powered anti-hurricane fans? ", In August 2019, the news website Axios wrote that sources who heard the president's private remarks in recorded comments in a National Security Council (NSC) memorandum claimed to have heard Trump asking top national security officials to "consider using nuclear bombs to weaken or destroy hurricanes. The book "Caesar's Last Breath" (via Vox) recounts the 1947 cloud seeding experiment on Hurricane King. But the winds of a hurricane can destroy anything, on any level. But it would be the same problem with nukes. See the [[what if]] ''{{what if|147|Niagara Straw}}''. No, not even if we change the requirements to just the passengers staying alive. 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? With a bigger bomb, it could destroy the world. How many molecules of the ink would be used? 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. From here on standard release day was Thursday. What would happen to the Earth if the Sun suddenly switched off? "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting," the source told Axios. 70% of the time you would end up in the ocean. The seventh two weeks break, 13th break in total. . The problem is, we already know there would be no point. So scientists are pretty sure that nuking a hurricane would both do nothing to stop it and spread nuclear fallout around the globe. This site is not under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License like xkcd is. Every now and then we have to insert a leap second because the Earths rotation is slowing down. And there probably isn't a point in having the hurricane police just guess which storms they think will become huge to keep the number of yearly nukes to a more reasonable five or six, especially when they might be wrong every time. We kept the chairs for five years but despite laborious attempts it couldn't be reproduced. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. The bubble grows to about a kilometer across in a couple of seconds. ", The site wrote that during a hurricane briefing, which occurred early into the first year of Trump's presidency, Trump allegedly said, "[Hurricanes] start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. In the year following that release only 8 articles where released including both #147 and #154. What about using a squirrel suit? If it's possible, what would a lunar ("holar"?) Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color? Assuming you had a good coat, you would survive to the death zone and die. What in my pocket actually contains more energy, my Zippo or my smartphone? In fact, weve actually tried it a bunch of times. 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. He served in the Philippines in 1946 and rode eight missions through typhoons inside . The heat release is equivalent. Should the person survive, what would be the number of bouncy balls needed to kill them? If they looked at our star right now, what would they see? The nature of the food chain means even radioactive plankton could end up harming much larger marine life. If my printer could literally print out money, would it have that big an effect on the world? Hurricane Katrina was the costliest hurricane ever recorded, with an estimated $176.3 billion in property damage and economic impact (via NOAA, adjusted for inflation.) Sanvu could whip up a spray containing fallout from the blast, and Assuming you are in a area with a reasonable amount of birds. Possibly the Apollo Astronauts but they definitely weren't lonely. Any time I attempt to heat left over Chinese food in a microwave, it fails to heat completely through somewhere. 65-million-year-old Chicxulub impact sitethis Second and longest break so far of two long breaks in a row, the 12th break in total. 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is out! Hurricane Red and Hurricane Blue (which is a blue line) are playing a game of Tron, zipping in straight lines and right angles around Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Her kitchen had something called Bauhaus chairs, which are full of holes, approx 5-6 millimeters in diameter in both back and seat. With less than 3 weeks between releases, releases seems to have become more regular in the beginning of 2017. I have had a particular problem for as long as I can remember. If you have a good arm, you could probably throw this book about 45 feet. What's the likelihood this could happen? If set up in the rainiest place in the United States (Ketchikan, Alaska), the cost could be offset in about a century. Nuclear bombs aren't powerful enough to stop a hurricane, and part of that is because they don't even do the thing you'd most need to slow the storm down. Pin it to the stack. To figure out how big it would split into many islands and the Netherlands will take over. It would be vapourized before it got close to the Sun. On Sunday, Axios reported that Donald Trump has a rather extreme idea for hurricane preparedness: nuke the storms before they make landfall. How many bananas would you need to power a house? When (if ever) did the Sun finally set on the British Empire? How much physical space does the internet take up? Fast enough so you would need a speedometer in scientific notation. The reason for this you can read at the Editor FAQ . At what numerical value would the number printed approximately equal the number of ink molecules used? If all the seas were one sea, When - if ever - will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx? You can almost visualize his wide-eyed innocence, wanting to take two deadly forces and use them to destroy each other, to benefit mankind. If the Hubble telescope were aimed at the Earth, how detailed would the images be? A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. Here's What Would Happen If You Nuked A Hurricane, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports. What if there was a lake on the Moon? Dispatches from a horrifying alternate universe. 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. He liked these questions so much that he started up What If. Not with regular lasers, but with more power, you could destroy the world. have been enough to strengthen it into a typhoon, much as the deep warm This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. The what if? When they do, you have to pause between letters, making those words annoying to type. Evin's scenario concerns neither. Those storms don't even get names, so they can't be that big a deal. The flooding they cause is also terrible and deadly, but at least the law of gravitation means that the water stays by the ground. But what if we could stop a hurricane in its tracks? a wonderful account of the unraveling of that mystery. 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. rim. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). 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? No underwater test has involved bombs anywhere near that size, nor depths anywhere near that deep. At what point in human history were there too many (English) books to be able to read them all in one lifetime? Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee would be angry. The Mariner 1 has traveled much farther than Voyager 1. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who get asked this question a lot, this is a very bad idea. I've long thought about putting a flamethrower on the front of a car to melt snow and ice before you drive across it. How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? The report outlines how when a nuclear weapon goes off underwater, it And the best part is, it's all humanity's fault. What would happen if one tried to funnel Niagara Falls through a straw? We still need to complete some explanations like this one: 1608: Hoverboard. I've often joked I'd like to have my remains put into orbit. [[A bar chart on a sheet of paper labeled "Fuel energy density in Megajoules It answers many important questions, including whether you could jump from a plane with a helium tank and inflate balloons fast enough to slow your fall and survive (yes) and whether you could hide from a supersonic windstorm in Finland (yes, but it won't help). If the bomb is being dropped over the ocean, nuclear waste will definitely affect that ecosystem first. First after 17 more weeks releases began again with article 141 on Tuesday January 16, 2016. If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive? While the president was assured they would look into it, obviously this plan never went anywhere. Meteorologist Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center explains (via Popular Mechanics) "To change a Category 5 hurricane into a Category 2 hurricane you would have to add about a half ton of air for each square meter inside the eye, or a total of a bit more than half a billion (500,000,000) tons for a 20 km radius eye. If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would Google's data warehouse be? Unlike the last article, out after almost a 15 weeks break, this one was released only a bit more than week after that. What height would humans reach if we kept growing through our whole development period (i.e. into the atmosphere, they heat to a glowlike meteorsigniting global Nuking hurricanes is in line with his long-held fascination with and trust in nuclear power and nuclear weapons. 53,000,000 megatons is approximately the energy of the Chicxulub impact. This is a list of comics featuring Nuclear weapons, nuclear bombs of any kind or mentiong of Nuclear war Randall often makes comics that refers to these kinds of weapons. How great would all of these things be? I figured this would be long enough to warm me up but not long enough to harm me. Are they really equivalent? Is there enough energy to move the entire current human population off-planet? For that matter, which war has the highest movie time:war time ratio? Through the decades, theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that researchers tried a laundry list of ways to stop hurricanes, including "seeding clouds with dry ice or silver iodide, reducing evaporation from the ocean surface with thin-layers of polymers, cooling the ocean with cryogenic material or icebergs, changing the radiational balance in the hurricane environment by absorption of sunlight with carbon black, flying jets clockwise in the eyewall to reverse the flow, exploding the hurricane apart with hydrogen bombs, and blowing the storm away from land with giant fans, etc.". terrifying passage describing the detonation of a submerged gigaton mine First after 25 releases was there a two week Christmas break before article 26 was released on December 31, 2012. bookprovides Would I be able to boil a cup of water by stirring? Two month between releases, and relased two weeks after the previous comic promoting the new book. Her 13-year-old friend would then drive the Ferrari around, while she sits in the chair enjoying uninterrupted views of the countryside. Absolutely! Kerry Emanuel, a hurricane expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said, "When you see things going up all over the globe like that, the ducks are kind of in order." How many fairies would fly around, if each fairy is born from the first laugh of a child and fairies were immortal? convulsions. What if you somehow managed to make a stereo travel at twice the speed of sound, would it sound backwards to someone who was just casually sitting somewhere as it flies by? Would it eventually reach a point where it would float? It seemed like a safe bet to test cloud seeding on the dying storm. At what speed would you have to drive for rain to shatter your windshield? How much volume would they take up and what would they look like? part of the ocean. How much cornstarch can I rinse down the drain before unpleasant things start to happen? Would it negate the need for a heat shield? Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns? There is no way to tell in advance which ones will develop." expand into a bubble 70 miles across. In reality, the oceans arent that deep. 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. Earths atmosphere is really thin compared to the radius of the Earth. And since I am already feeling like Bilbo in this one, is there anything else in my pocket that would have unexpected amounts of stored energy? Whats the fastest way to get a hand-written letter from my place in Chicago to my mother in New Jersey? swept out to sea by a massive tsunami. The second of two longer shifts in release day two weeks in a row which resulted in only two releases over three weeks, resulting in the eight break in total. Hurricanes are definitely worse than they used to be. If you stripped away all the rules of car racing and had a contest which was simply to get a human being around a track 200 times as fast as possible, what strategy would win? 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. This can never happen, even if we were to throw Earth at Jupiter. Most of the time it would not hit anyhing. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). I use one of those old phones where you type with numbersfor example, to type "Y", you press 9 three times. The story of the three wise men got me wondering: What if you did walk towards a star at a fixed speed? More details.. The surrounding area would be obliterated and there would be mass panic for many following years. So during the summer of 2016, it seemed it was down to about one release every two months but then it increased. In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. Stopping rain from falling on something with an umbrella or a tent is boring. 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. Nuking Hurricanes: The Surprising History of a Really Bad Idea On October 11, 1961, the head of the U.S. "By the way," he continued, gesturing to Trump, "he has an answer for hurricanes. Would it be possible for two teams in a tug-o-war to overcome the ultimate tensile strength of an iron rod and pull it apart? Answer: A literal Death Star. What would happen if you opened a portal between Boston (sea level) and Mexico City (elev. column of heat creates a hot spot in the oceanmany degrees warmer than How dangerous is it, really, to be in a swimming pool in a thunderstorm? You angle your descent and grab the pole just long enough to swing around so that when you let go you're now heading back up toward the sky. Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? What would happen if I dug straight down, at a speed of 1 foot per second? The core on the other hand, would vapourize you. The first scenarios are pretty boring. Explosion: \[\text{Radius} = \left (\frac{3}{4\pi}\right )^\frac{1}{3}\left ( \frac{40 \% \times 53\text{ megatons of TNT}}{\text{Mariana Trench pressure}+\text{1 ATM}} \right)^\frac{1}{3}\approx580\text{ meters}\]. Lighter winds outside the clouds steer them and help them grow. This is neither aerodynamic nor a good idea. What do we do with this?'" Why can't we do that? No one would get a perfect score. What if you exploded a nuclear bomb (say, the Tsar Bomba) at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? How big a hole do I need to dig before people suffocate? coast. The explosion at the bottom of the Mariana Trench will create a Jack W. Reed began his military career as an Air Force meteorologist during the closing days of World War II. And that's just one hurricane. If all the men were one man, At the moment it seems impossible to guess when a new post is released so: Below is a list of the articles released in the what if? Would I need to dive to actually experience a fatal amount of radiation? How fast would I have to bike for my skin to warm up the way a spacecraft heats up during reentry? My boyfriend recently took a flight on a plane with wifi, and while he was up there, wistfully asked if I could send him a pizza. In the modern era, even with huge advances in hurricane tracking, 1998's Hurricane Mitch killed over 11,000 people in Central America. ocean waves created by nuclear explosions. A hurricane would shrug off a nuclear bomb the way an elephant does a gnat. I also understand that by doing this, Jupiter slowed down very slightly. It goes through three or four cycles of this collapse and expansion James P. Kossin, a researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who was part of the study, says flat out, "We're making these storms more deleterious." What would be the best way of getting the energy from one to the other? Just more FAKE NEWS!". It turns out not only is that hard to help her appreciate this size, I am not at all able to explain all of the other difficulties you'd have to overcome. it just under the surface. How far would a tungsten countertop descend if I dropped it into the Sun? 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. 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. What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? They can rip off your roof, knock a tree onto your car, and break all your windows. effects has not been made. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). As with a lot of these answers, just don't. This work is licensed under a And it's not possible anyway, since nukes are not giant, cutting-edge fans. Biking at that speed would make your body generate so much heat your core temperature would reach fatal levels in seconds. Could it navigate? What would happen if you exploded a nuclear bomb in the eye of a hurricane? Using nuclear weapons to destroy hurricanes is not a good idea, a US scientific agency has said, following reports that President . 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions was released on September 13. beneath the waters of the Pacific. What if you strapped C4 to a boomerang? Bernard Le Mehaute and Shen Wang. It might sound crazy (okay, it definitely sounds crazy), but this is something serious people have put a lot of thought into. Earths crust dozens of miles across, leaving a hole through which After effectively describing what would occur as a nuclear explosion, leveling the stadium and the surrounding mile radius, he concludes with the note "A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered 'hit by pitch', and would be eligible to advance to first base.". Hurricanes are extremely powerful: A fully developed hurricane releases the same amount of energy as the explosion of a 10-megaton nuke every 20 minutes, the NOAA article says. dinosaurs. Evins scenario concerns neither. Hurricane Illinois-Has-It-Too-Easy comes from somewhere to the northwest, goes through Illinois, and then back to the northwest. But why would you. There is a water average. of 200-300 miles inland, whichever limit is reached first.. turbulent warm water and explosion debris. According to the report, as 2 book. 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. detonated, and at 11 kilometers, the Mariana(s) Trench is the deepest No, but it does make some really cool patterns. Pages in category "Nuclear weapons" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. The column of deep, hot water from our nuke could conceivably From the very edge of the atmosphere and even then it might not be fully cooked. If one randomly chosen extra person were to die each second somewhere on Earth, what impact would it have on the world population? Explanation []. Second two months break of at least two in a row, the 16th break in total. The debris played a key role in identifying the How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the Sun? What's the worst thing that can happen if you misuse a pressure cooker in an ordinary kitchen? happens near the surface, it can create some pretty big wavesunder some The second break came a year after the first and was also a Christmas break before article 77 was released on December 31, 2013. What if I took a swim in a typical spent nuclear fuel pool? Needless to say, this is not a good idea.". firestorms. story by using. How would the Earth change as the water is being drained? These turned out to be the remains of North American forests What would happen if the Earth's rotation were sped up until a day only lasted one second? However, Trump called the site's story "ridiculous" in a tweet, adding, "I never said this. each. tsunamis. }}, 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. Obviously, my boyfriend had to go without pizza until he landed at JFK. that engulf the forests of Indonesia, California, and the Pacific We would see a variety of benefits across our lives but we would also freeze and die. But it might have, and that's enough to concern scientists, especially when they are talking about going from cloud seeding to nuclear weapons. 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