If you could combine your genes with any animal in the world, which one would you choose? Would you want the power of a wolf? The agility of a cat? Or the wings of a bird? Well, you’d better make your mind up quickly, because this technology is right around […]
That’s no moon. It’s a space station. The enormous, planet-killing kind, designed for only one thing — to bring order to the galaxy. It’s Star Wars’ Imperial superweapon, the Death Star. What would it take to build one just like this? Where would we assemble the biggest weapon of mass […]
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Would you ever venture into the ocean if you knew this creature could be lurking beneath you? It’s twice the size of a T. rex, its jaws are big enough to crush cars, and it can swallow multiple humans at a time! This ancient beast is called a megalodon shark, […]
With your support we can make our show better! Join our Patreon community: http://bit.ly/whatif-patreon Imagine never being able to dream of landing on Mars or traveling to Saturn. Not because it’s impossible to get there, but because they didn’t exist. Because Earth was the only planet in our solar system. […]
Thanks to Elon Musk and Tesla the world now has a (supposedly) almost indestructible car. As Tesla has a track record of disrupting industries and set new standards, will other carmakers follow suit? Instead of falling apart after a single crash, what if all cars become completely indestructible? Would there […]
What would it actually be like if every particle in your body converted into a dark matter particle? And how long could you last in that state? Everything that we can see in the Universe is a massive mash-up of electrons, protons and neutrons fused into atoms. It’s what is […]
More Earths, including Cubic, Flat and Hollow Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhT7XIZh7vM&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTLYYHcnBePxwYHuR_p-iRoX On our hypothetical journey, we’ve already tested out living on a flat Earth, a cubical Earth, even a hollow Earth. What do you say we try to survive on an Earth with a giant hole in the middle? Would a planet […]
Plastic production is predicted to keep skyrocketing in the next ten years, and our planet is going to pay the price. But, with all that plastic being made, is it possible we could do some good with it? What if we were to use all that plastic and convert it […]
In today’s tech-savvy world, it’s all around you – an invisible world of electromagnetic signals and radio waves. Wi-Fi, or Wireless Fidelity, is responsible for over 60 percent of the planet’s internet traffic. It’s seemingly everywhere, yet, imperceptible to the human eye. But what if you could see it? What […]
