No one knows exactly what to expect if we encountered other forms of alien life. Would they talk like us? Look like us? Or would they be completely different? “What if, instead of encountering organic alien life, we met alien artificial intelligence?” This episode was produced in collaboration with Isaac […]
Is it a meteor shower? Space debris? No, it’s something much, much worse. Our nearest neighbor is a full Moon no more. The Moon exploded and splintered into millions of fragments. Enormous lunar rocks are hurtling toward Earth. Could this wipe us off the face of the planet? How could […]
Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that’s no diamond in the sky. That looks like a supernova. As much as we love to blow stuff up here on Earth, no bombs or pyrotechnics could compare to […]
Just 3,000 light-years from Earth is a black hole visible to the naked eye. Thankfully, we are a safe distance from this stellar black hole and many others like it. There are approximately 100 million of them out there in our galaxy that we know of. They are the remnants […]
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Go to https://www.upstart.com/WHATIF and find out how Upstart can lower your monthly payments today. You can check your rate without impacting your credit score in minutes. Thank you Upstart for sponsoring this video. Olympus Mons is the tallest mountain in our Solar System. This giant volcano is located on Mars. […]
You’ve heard the Soundgarden song, but how about a real Black Hole Sun collision? Most black holes are the remnants of massive stars. Would our Sun survive the collision, or could a black hole make some serious cosmic trouble for the ruler of our Solar System? Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-the-sun-collided-with-a-black-hole/ […]
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