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Baseball at 90 Percent Light Speed

What It Would Be Like to Hit a Baseball Thrown at 90% the Speed of Light

February 9, 2024

Laser Beam Umbrella

Why a Laser Beam Umbrella Wouldn’t Work

February 21, 2024

Glass Half Empty

What Happens If a Glass of Water Is Literally Made Half Empty by Vacuum Pressure

September 25, 2024

All Lighting Striking at Once

What Would Happen If Every Lightning Bolt on Earth Struck the Same Place All at Once

May 7, 2024

All the Money In the World What If

Why Someone With All the Money In the World Could Never Be Able to Spend Any of It

May 8, 2025

Car Flamethrower to Melt Snow

The Impracticality of Mounting a Flamethrower to the Front of a Car to Melt Snow While Driving

May 28, 2025

Swimming in Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool

Exploring How Safe It Would Be to Swim in a Pool of Spent Nuclear Fuel

April 10, 2024

Drained Oceans

What Would Happen If All of the Oceans on Earth Were Drained at the Deepest Point of the Mariana Trench

June 20, 2024

Submarine as Spaceship

Why a Nuclear Submarine Wouldn’t Work As a Spaceship

March 6, 2024

Magnitude 15 Earthquake What If

What Might Happen If We Had a Magnitude 15 Earthquake

August 20, 2024