What If? 2
Subtitle: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2022
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780525537120
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Science, miscellanea; Science, popular works
First sentence: What would happen if the Solar System was filled with soup out to Jupiter? —Amelia, age 5
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: Soupiter
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Helicopter Ride
pagenum: 6; label: 3
title: Dangerously Cold
pagenum: 11; label: 4
title: Ironic Vaporization
pagenum: 16; label: 5
title: Cosmic Road Trip
pagenum: 22; label: 6
title: Pigeon Chair
pagenum: 26; label: S
title: Short Answers #1
pagenum: 30; label: 7
title: T. Rex Calories
pagenum: 37; label: 8
title: Geyser
pagenum: 40; label: 9
title: Pew, Pew, Pew
pagenum: 43; label: 10
title: Reading Every Book
pagenum: 47; label: W
title: Weird & Worrying #1
pagenum: 51; label: 11
title: Banana Church
pagenum: 52; label: 12
title: Catch!
pagenum: 55; label: 13
title: Lose Weight the Slow and Incredibly Difficult Way
pagenum: 59; label: 14
title: Paint the Earth
pagenum: 66; label: 15
title: Jupiter Comes to Town
pagenum: 70; label: 16
title: Star Sand
pagenum: 74; label: 17
title: Swing Set
pagenum: 78; label: 18
title: Airliner Catapult
pagenum: 83; label: S
title: Short Answers #2
pagenum: 88; label: 19
title: Slow Dinosaur Apocalypse
pagenum: 98; label: 20
title: Elemental Worlds
pagenum: 103; label: 21
title: One-Second Day
pagenum: 108; label: 22
title: Billion-Story Building
pagenum: 111; label: 23
title: $2 Undecillion Lawsuit
pagenum: 120; label: 24
title: Star Ownership
pagenum: 124; label: 25
title: Tire Rubber
pagenum: 128; label: 26
title: Plastic Dinosaurs
pagenum: 131; label: S
title: Short Answers #3
pagenum: 135; label: 27
title: Suction Aquarium
pagenum: 143; label: 28
title: Earth Eye
pagenum: 149; label: 29
title: Build Rome in a Day
pagenum: 154; label: 30
title: Mariana Trench Tube
pagenum: 159; label: 31
title: Expensive Shoebox
pagenum: 164; label: 32
title: MRI Compass
pagenum: 168; label: 33
title: Ancestor Fraction
pagenum: 172; label: 34
title: Bird Car
pagenum: 176; label: 35
title: No-Rules NASCAR
pagenum: 180; label: W
title: Weird & Worrying #2
pagenum: 185; label: 36
title: Vacuum Tube Smartphone
pagenum: 186; label: 37
title: Laser Umbrella
pagenum: 192; label: 38
title: Eat a Cloud
pagenum: 195; label: 39
title: Tall Sunsets
pagenum: 199; label: 40
title: Lava Lamp
pagenum: 202; label: 41
title: Sisyphean Refrigerators
pagenum: 206; label: 42
title: Blood Alcohol
pagenum: 210; label: 43
title: Basketball Earth
pagenum: 214; label: 44
title: Spiders vs. the Sun
pagenum: 217; label: 45
title: Inhale a Person
pagenum: 220; label: 46
title: Candy Crush Lightening
pagenum: 223; label: S
title: Short Answers #4
pagenum: 226; label: 47
title: Toasty Warm
pagenum: 234; label: 48
title: Proton Earth, Electron Moon
pagenum: 236; label: 49
title: Eyeball
pagenum: 241; label: 50
title: Japan Runs an Errand
pagenum: 244; label: 51
title: Fire from Moonlight
pagenum: 249; label: 52
title: Read All the Laws
pagenum: 255; label: W
title: Weird & Worrying #3
pagenum: 262; label: 53
title: Saliva Pool
pagenum: 263; label: 54
title: Snowball
pagenum: 268; label: 55
title: Niagara Straw
pagenum: 272; label: 56
title: Walking Backward in Time
pagenum: 277; label: 57
title: Ammonia Tube
pagenum: 284; label: 58
title: Earth-Moon Fire Pole
pagenum: 287; label: S
title: Short Answers #5
pagenum: 298; label: 59
title: Global Snow
pagenum: 305; label: 60
title: Dog Overload
pagenum: 308; label: 61
title: Into the Sun
pagenum: 314; label: 62
title: Sunscreen
pagenum: 318; label: 63
title: Walking on the Sun
pagenum: 323; label: 64
title: Lemon Drops and Gumdrops
pagenum: 329; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 335; title: References
pagenum: 337; title: Index
pagenum: 349