Thanks for looking at my book. After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f*ck? Luckily for the coast, later research paints a less dire picture. have been enough to strengthen it into a typhoon, much as the deep warm Reed wasn't worried about fallout. In the memo, one of the eight ideas Freeman discusses is the use of What English word has the most consecutive letters on the same key? The report outlines how when a nuclear weapon goes off underwater, it 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. National Geographic says it was a meteorologist named Jack W. Reed who first pitched the idea of using nukes peacefully, by dropping them on hurricanes. What is the furthest one human being has ever been from every other living person? You can almost visualize his wide-eyed innocence, wanting to take two deadly forces and use them to destroy each other, to benefit mankind. How much cornstarch can I rinse down the drain before unpleasant things start to happen? Here's What Would Happen If You Nuked A Hurricane, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports. This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 02:47. 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. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). If our Twitter timelines (tweets by the people we follow) actually extended off the screen in both directions, how tall would they be? The area is now marked by a 100-kilometer-wide scar of magma sizzling What a great man that would be! How fast would I have to bike for my skin to warm up the way a spacecraft heats up during reentry? My 4 year old son and I were wondering about soccer ball sized hail today. Since then there was no new posts for almost four years. First after 25 releases was there a two week Christmas break before article 26 was released on December 31, 2012. If everyone put little turbine generators on the downspouts of their houses and businesses, how much power would we generate? From here on standard release day was again Tuesday. It turns out that if the waves are very large, they break Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns? If everybody in the US drove west, could we temporarily halt continental drift? 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? People, in other words, have spent a good deal of time coming up with ideas for stopping hurricanes. But spiders are a lot more scary. In the UK edition of the book, Randall included a preface about his thoughts on the units used in the UK. As the chunks of rock fall back it gets, we can try a formula from the 1971 paper Evaluation of Biden said Trump, "has an answer for hurricanes. In Armageddon, a NASA guy comments that a plan to shoot a laser at the asteroid is like shooting a b.b. circumstances, they can be hundreds of feet high near ground zero. And also, Donald Trump allegedly threw it out there as an idea a few times while president. improbable typhoon interaction, the overall effect of the bomb isnt 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? What about using a squirrel suit? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? How long would it take for a single person to fill up an entire swimming pool with their own saliva? Of course, thats getting a little far-fetched. 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? 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. Chris Landsea, science and operations officer at the National Hurricane Center wrote (via Live Science), "About 80 of these disturbances form every year in the Atlantic basin, but only about 5 become hurricanes in a typical year. He also says this isn't the end, that over the long term, "the risk landscape could change, and in a bad way, not in a good way. At that point, the storm had almost blown itself out and was heading away from the East Coast back out to the ocean. What if everyone actually had only one soul mate, a random person somewhere in the world? Though he reportedly . Liquid nitrogen? 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. 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. But it would be the same problem with nukes. There you have it. Even the mightiest hurricane begins life as a much smaller storm. What would kill me first? '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 . What is the farthest from Earth that any Earth thing has died? What would happen from the impact of the mountain falling 1 inch? If we hooked turbines to people exercising in gyms, how much power could we produce? Evin isnt the first person to think of setting off nuclear weapons water above bulges up, though only slightly, over a large area. What path would you trace on the Earth? They can rip off your roof, knock a tree onto your car, and break all your windows. What would happen if you tried to fly a normal Earth airplane above different Solar System bodies? This warm water creates humid air, which then gets thrust upwards by tropical winds to create storm clouds. Would we ever generate enough power to offset the cost of the generators? What about 1 foot? The first scenarios are pretty boring. To figure out how big It's the winds that need to be slowed down to stop a hurricane, and nukes would be laughably ineffective at it. What is the longest possible sunset you can experience while driving, assuming we are obeying the speed limit and driving on paved roads? This was announced on xkcd on January 31st when the comic 2575: What If? Did WWII last longer than the total length of movies about WWII? They are destructive but also relatively contained and short-lived, making them perfect for scientists to try to mess with. "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," the page states. The article 137 from July 14, 2015 was about the New Horizons probe. no wave of any consequence will be generated.. The ninth break in total. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. waters of the Gulf of Mexicos Loop Current sometimes cause hurricanes Almost nobody would find their soul mate. 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? 2 Countdown. to rapidly intensify. What if the Earth were made entirely of protons, and the Moon were made entirely of electrons? Then the A nuke set Since 2014, there's also a book of the blog. That is a lot of energy. What if there was a lake on the Moon? Most of the what if? dinosaurs. What would it be like to swim in it? underwater. 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). Has humanity produced enough paint to cover the entire land area of the Earth? What would happen to the Earth if the Sun suddenly switched off? If it's possible, what would a lunar ("holar"?) In most cases this tends to heat the bowl or plate more than the food. How many unique English tweets are possible? Or what if you were doing a backflip? What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place? before disintegrating into, in the words of the 1996 report, a mass of When - if ever - will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx? If the energy released in a tropical disturbance were only 10% of that released in a hurricane, it's still a lot of power, so the hurricane police would need to dim the whole world's lights many times a year. But as the '50s turned to the '60s, more and more people began to realize the weapons contained inherent dangers and harms. I figured this would be long enough to warm me up but not long enough to harm me. What if the mountain's base were raised to the present height of the summit, and then the whole thing were allowed to drop to the earth? the coast, the waves would be no worse than those from a bad storm. part of the ocean. Again. 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? effects has not been made. He said, 'Maybe we should drop a nuclear weapon on them. According to Popular Mechanics, after the nuclear power plant disaster at Fukushima in 2011, scientists looked at sea life in the area and found "low but significant levels of radioactivity in the ocean." Interesting to see if they will begin appearing regularly again during the spring of 2017, as seems possible with three articles in less than a month and #156 was again released with less than two weeks between it and #155. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Earlier this year, Severe Tropical Storm Sanvu passed over the Mariana In that year (assuming no more comics before February 26 2017), only 8 articles where released including both 147 and this one. Actually, it would be more clean than it is currently! Enough soda to cover Earth with ten layers of cans. Aim carefully. Rough estimates indicate that the inundation But those are waves from an explosion close to the surface. If not, then we all die. (including inside apartments). The second break came a year after the first and was also a Christmas break before article 77 was released on December 31, 2013. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Is there enough energy to move the entire current human population off-planet? Fat: 39 Better to just carry a sign. 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. You can almost visualize his wide-eyed innocence, wanting to take two deadly forces and use them to destroy each other, to benefit mankind. It seemed like a safe bet to test cloud seeding on the dying storm. Around the early 1990s, scientists started discovering jumbled fields of And mess they did. Tropical cyclones derive their energy from vertical temperature differences, are symmetrical, and have a warm core. The culprit was a comet or 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? What's the worst thing that can happen if you misuse a pressure cooker in an ordinary kitchen? is a blog hosted on the xkcd.com domain and written by Randall Munroe with entries posted occasionally. Second time with less than two weeks between release in 2017. Why not nuke a hurricane? That's scientist talk for "We are so screwed." Repeat. off the North American coast: Quantitative study of the destructive What would be the most expensive way to fill a size 11 shoebox (e.g. This site is not under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License like xkcd is. How many fairies would fly around, if each fairy is born from the first laugh of a child and fairies were immortal? Hey! The 'reality' and consequences of using multiple cars (that are not your own) to construct a trans-Atlantic highway. More details.. For example, in the first article, he discusses what would happen if a baseball were pitched at 90% of the speed of light. 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? Magic, because science just works like that. Fortunately for the coast, these waves are fundamentally different from She is planning to attach a number of helium balloons to a chair, which in turn would be tethered by means of a rope to a Ferrari. How dangerous is it to be in a pool during a thunderstorm? tsunamis. "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting," the source told Axios. August 26, 2019. 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). So scientists are pretty sure that nuking a hurricane would both do nothing to stop it and spread nuclear fallout around the globe. 8000+ feet)? what if? pressure from that six miles of water overhead causes it to collapse. From here on standard release day was Thursday. 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? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. You would have to go 200m/s. If you have a good arm, you could probably throw this book about 45 feet. How close would you have to be to a supernova to get a lethal dose of neutrino radiation? As gravity slows you and brings you to a halt, you reach the top of the skyscraper, where you reach out and pull yourself to safety. What if you were changing the light at the top of a radio tower and lightning struck? Within a dozen or so seconds, the bubble shrinks to a minimum size, then The rising Okay, so we can't use nukes, ice, cloud seeding, or anything humanity has invented yet. The New START, signed by then-presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in 2010, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. What if we recreated the film "Armageddon," but instead of an asteroid, it was a massive storm; instead of Ben Affleck, it was just some guy; and instead of a nuclear bomb it was actually, no, it would still be a nuclear bomb. Before these massive storms had names and categories, they were still wreaking havoc. When they do, you have to pause between letters, making those words annoying to type. You just might not be prepared for how big you will need to be dreaming. But the next one (#154) was indeed released only a bit more than week after the one with 15 weeks break, and then less than 3 weeks after followed yet an article on February 28 2017. It then seemed to stop completely after those two, and it took more than a year (62 weeks) before #157. expand into a bubble 70 miles across. A tropical cyclone is a generic term for a low-pressure system that formed over tropical waters (25S to 25N) with thunderstorm activity near the center of its closed, cyclonic winds. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. "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. And cut down the great tree, Humanity would survive if the robots cared about keeping themselves alive as well. After World War II, they started trying in a big way. 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. What if people's incomes appeared around them as cash in real time? Most of the time it would not hit anyhing. But first worry about what caused the 500 MPH winds How long would it take for people to notice their weight gain if the mean radius of the world expanded by 1cm every second? Would it eventually reach a point where it would float? Reed died in 2007. 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. What better weather to try to alter than hurricanes? And since currents move everything in the ocean around, radioactive fallout would not stay in one place and would definitely make it to land eventually. ocean waves created by nuclear explosions. First regular release. "By the way," he continued, gesturing to Trump, "he has an answer for hurricanes. Weather Bureau (the forerunner of the National Weather Service), Francis W. Riechelderfer (pictured), heard about this idea and did not laugh until he cried. But this raised the question: could a bird deliver a standard 20" New York-style cheese pizza in a box? What if you built a siphon from the oceans on Europa to Earth? That turbulent warm water is actually quite substantial. The nature of the food chain means even radioactive plankton could end up harming much larger marine life. Assuming you had a good coat, you would survive to the death zone and die. 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.) What injuries would occur and what would the associated crimes be? Weather Bureau said he could "imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb. 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 the Hubble telescope were aimed at the Earth, how detailed would the images be? The seventh two weeks break, 13th break in total. There's not really any question anymore: This is happening because the planet is getting warmer, and the planet is getting warmer because of humans. In terms of human-made objects, has Voyager 1 travelled the farthest distance? What if the entire continental US was on a decreasing slope from West to East. 95 minutes at the right place at the right time. off deep underwater acts a bit differently. How long would the Sun last if a giant water hose were focused upon it? It's baffling and has made me automatically adjust heating times to over 2 minutes. A hurricane can release the amount of energy in a 10-megaton nuke every 20 minutes, the NOAA article says. If every country's airspace extended up forever, which country would own the largest percentage of the galaxy at any given time? What took more energy, the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Apollo Mission? For a more brief and arrangeable list, see. If all the men were one man, How much of the Earth's currently-existing water has ever been turned into a soft drink at some point in its history? 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. This has become known as the Countdown in header text, see all details on that page. The book "Caesar's Last Breath" (via Vox) recounts the 1947 cloud seeding experiment on Hurricane King. Northwest, along with most of coastal China and the rest of the Pacific More details.. The article is about the slope needed to be able to coast on a bike, without using the pedals, across mainland USA. Surprisingly littleespecially compared to what would happen if you put Were they lonely? How big a hole do I need to dig before people suffocate? water. The third two weeks Christmas break, the seventh break in total. They would not be able to pay off the debt, even if they forced humanity to work as slaves. Randall announced his what if? If you had a printed version of the whole of (say, the English) Wikipedia, how many printers would you need in order to keep up with the changes made to the live version? Before publishing the first what if? But the winds of a hurricane can destroy anything, on any level. 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. It's just a matter of time. 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 (now Russia), possibly increasing the arms race tensions between the two countries. 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. Let's assume there's life on the the nearest habitable exoplanet and that they have technology comparable to ours. till late teens/early twenties) at the same pace as we do during our first month? Could a person walk the entire city of NY in their lifetime? What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant? If you could teleport to a random place of the surface of the Earth, what are the odds that you'll see signs of intelligent life? I saw a sign at a hot springs tub saying "Caution: Water is hotter than average" with water at about 39C. Or standing in a graphite field? Order here! More details. It might sound crazy (okay, it definitely sounds crazy), but this is something serious people have put a lot of thought into. If all the seas were one sea, The finger holes would collapse and then not much would happen. For over 20 years, from 1962 to 1983, the fabulously named Project STORMFURY used simulations, as well as four actual hurricanes as test subjects, to see if cloud seeding with silver iodine would reduce a major storm even a little. 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. (Also, Randall misspelled Bethlehem). "As far as I know, there's no serious scientist doing this at all. How long would it take for the population of the world to read them all out loud? With close to 15 weeks this was the second longest break between articles so far. I heard that bananas are radioactive. quite as dramatic as Evin might have imagined. The seminal work in the field of nuclear ocean waves is Water Waves Generated By Underwater Explosions, a When a stack fits, write the number of iterations on a card. Hurricanes are tropical storms, the water they form over needs to be above 26C (79F) for them to work. 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. 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