读过《What If?》 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
问题很有趣，论证很科学严谨，却还是会觉得枯燥。同样用正经严肃的科学态度研究荒诞不经的提问，更喜欢 毕导 香蕉和冬枣怎么吃最恶心，为什么朋友圈每天有人结婚，这类贴近生活的话题。当然论理论功力，毕导还是差NASA背景的作者一截。
而相反套路的，以轻松斗比的方式解说一本正经的问题的，最喜欢 混子曰 了。
我心目中自媒体科普的两大标杆人物。
What If? [Book] Google Books Douban Goodreads
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
8.5 (23 ratings)
author:
Randall Munroe
publishing house:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2014
- 9
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 a large and passionate following.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?
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. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.
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 a large and passionate following.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?
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. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.