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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

天才作者，前NASA员工、网络科普专栏What If合集
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Author：Randall Munroe

Paperback

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd (September 24, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1848549563

ISBN-13: 9781848549562

Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.9 x 7.7 inches

Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces

Book Description

本书是前NASA员工、超热门科普漫画“xkcd”作家兰德尔·门罗的新作，内容来自他的“What If”科学问答专栏，辅以“xkcd”经典火柴人漫画，轻松幽默地将各学科知识跃然纸上。

如果人体内的DNA瞬间消失了会怎样？如果把海水抽干会怎样？如果地球膨胀得像太阳一样大会怎样？牛排从多高的地方掉下来正好烤熟？全人类搬离地球需要几步？这不是中规中矩的《十万个为什么》，而是脑洞大开的科学真相，小时候萌生的异想天开，都可以在这本书里找到机智幽默的科学答案！

牛排从多高的地方掉下来正好能烤熟？ 哭多了会脱水吗？

如果把一辈子亲吻所用的力气用在一个亲吻，会产生多大引力？ 

全人类搬离地球需要几步？ 

所有好奇心都值得被满足！

天才作者，前NASA员工、网络科普专栏What If合集：作者曾在NASA制造机器人，后来成为科普漫画家，玩转物理、天文、生物、化学、数学各学科知识，轻松接招粉丝们提出的脑洞大开的问题，配上xkcd风格的火柴人漫画，幽默机智的答案让人拍案叫绝！ 

国内外人气爆棚，粉丝众多：国外诸多一线媒体、TED演讲人、天文学家、科普作家联手点赞。国内果壳网、译言网持续2年自发翻译连载百余篇，粉丝众多，在中国年轻读者中具有极高人气。 让科学流行起来：机智问答+幽默漫画，全书超过1/3内容初次发表，不怕你敢问，只怕你脑洞不够大！  

尽管本书行文幽默风趣，但作者给出的解释都是非常科学的。这些解释都是作者本人经过充分研究之后得出的，是经得起推敲的干货，满足广大科学“极客”的求知欲和探奇心。 

当然看罢此书，作者的初衷绝不仅仅让大家停留在探寻某一个具体科学问题上，而是提供给大家一种看似荒唐却逻辑十足的思考方式。你是不是在小时候也曾问过许多光怪陆离的问题，但被所谓的“标准答案”束缚住了思维？你是不是在生活中也曾遇到过匪夷所思的现象，但被庸碌的生活所困，懒于进行思考，所以如果你发现自己太长时间没读到什么有趣的书籍，那不妨拿起这本What If?

What if作者新作你怎么能错过，一并购买 

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans’ strangest questions.

The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical:

• What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?

• Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?

• What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City?

• Are fire tornadoes possible?

His responses are masterpieces of clarity and wit, gleefully and accurately explaining everything from the relativistic effects of a baseball pitched at near the speed of light to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements.

The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.

About the Author

Randall Munroe is the author of the popular webcomic xkcd and the science question-and-answer blog What If. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006, he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full-time, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they're getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.

兰道尔·门罗（Randall Munroe），曾在NASA工作，制造机器人。2006年成为全职网络漫画家，是美国非常热门科普漫画网站xkcd的创立者。本书就是他的What If科普问答专栏合集。国际天文学联合会将小行星4942命名为“门罗”。如果“门罗小行星”撞上地球，很可能会导致大灭绝。

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