Get 20% off Grammarly Premium by signing up at https://grammarly.com/WHATIF The Sun isn’t the biggest thing in our Solar System. And it’s not Jupiter, either. But close. It’s Jupiter’s very own magnetic field. What would it be like if Earth’s magnetic field was as huge as Jupiter’s? How much stronger […]
Thanks to Established Titles for sponsoring this video! Get 10% off on any purchase with code WhatIf. Go to https://establishedtitles.com/WhatIf and help support the channel! Some of the planets in our Solar System are gigantic. But what if they got even bigger? Let’s go up the planetary size chart and […]
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Imagine Earth with an even 50/50 split between continents and oceans. Our planet covered half by land half by water. How would this change the planet as you know it? What new kinds of vacations could this make possible for you? And what does the color of your pee have […]
Step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to 65! Subscribe for more Pitch Meetings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Kq-yEt1iYsbUzNOoIRK0g Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs with sci-fi weapons sounds like a surefire concept that’s guaranteed to be entertaining. But somehow, when 65 hit theatres, critics weren’t impressed and audiences weren’t present. 65 definitely raises some questions. […]
Follow Michael Stevens: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce EXTRA INFO & LINKS BELOW! Dr. Julian Bayliss’ rainforest story: http://youtu.be/mni8mSS4KDU Cool video from CGPGrey: “How Many Countries Are There?” http://youtu.be/4AivEQmfPpk upside-down map: http://paulmencke.nl.dualdev.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Upside-down-World-Map.jpg INTERACTIVE projection site: http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/ Chromoscope: http://www.chromoscope.net/ Mercator Puzzle: https://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/poly/puzzledrag.html xkcd on maps: http://xkcd.com/977/ Earth “live”: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/imagery/earth/live interactive gnomonic: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3795048 West Wing MAPS […]
Download the Speakly app at https://speakly.app.link/Speakly and get a 60% discount if you join the annual subscription. Something is very wrong with our Sun. It’s turned into a spinning lighthouse of death. What would make the Sun so much more deadly than usual? Would there be any way life on […]
Get a free What If Top 10 book when you sign up for our newsletter: https://underknown.com/newsletter/ The biggest planet in the Solar System has gone rogue. And now it’s heading straight toward Earth. You have 30 days till this gas giant wipes us all out. What speeds would Jupiter be […]
Get a free What If Top 10 book when you sign up for our newsletter: https://underknown.com/newsletter/ Get ready for some serious burns and the instantaneous death of organisms. Let’s turn up the heat and bring the entire planet to a boil for five whole seconds. How would this apocalyptic heat […]
It’s a small world after all, because today, we’re shrinking Earth to the size of Pluto. But if our planet was this tiny, how would it alter the atmosphere? Why would the Earth get hotter? And how would gravity affect our water supply? Would we be tidally locked to the […]
