Co kdyby? 2 - Další vážné vědecké odpovědi na absurdní hypotetické otázky – Munroe Randall (2023)

The author of the bestsellers What If? and How To tackles more bizarre questions you never thought to ask. ***** Millions of people around the world who have read and fallen in love with the book What If? still have not exhausted all their questions – on the contrary, their inquiries are becoming increasingly strange. Fortunately, the author of the xkcd comic, Randall Munroe, has come to the rescue! ***** Would you like to slide down a fire pole from the Moon to Earth? The hardest part will be nailing the landing. Have you thought about cooling the atmosphere by having everyone in the world open their refrigerators wide? You might need a brief lesson in the laws of thermodynamics. Are you curious about what happens if you try to ride on a helicopter rotor, build a building a billion stories high, make a lava lamp out of real lava, or jump into a geyser at the moment of eruption? Well, if you insist… ***** But before you embark on a cosmic road trip, present New Yorkers as food for a Tyrannosaurus rex, or fill all the world’s shrines with bananas, don’t forget to consult this practical guide to impractical ideas. Munroe does not shy away from absurdity and confronts it with the latest scientific insights on everything from the motion of swings to the construction of aircraft catapults.