Pack your bags because you’re traveling through space to see Alpha Centauri. There’s just one problem. It’s going to take 100 years. But is it possible to sleep through the trip? Get comfy because you’re going nighty-night for an entire century. What technology would you need? What would happen to […]
Mars didn’t always look like this. It may have once been covered in oceans. But what if we brought all the Martian water back and transformed the red planet into one that’s half blue? What would Mars look like if it was 50% land and 50% water? Where would we […]
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How much can landing in snow protect you from a fall? We’ve seen it save people who jumped off a roof. Or dived off a cliff. And yes, they even fell from the top of a mountain! But what about a fall from even higher up? Like, from an airplane? […]
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13.8 billion years ago, the entire Universe emerged from one single point in space. This theory is known as the Big Bang. And it’s the most widely accepted story of the creation of our Universe. But what if we have this all wrong? What if the Universe didn’t start like […]
Deep under the Earth’s surface, there’s a scorching hot ball of metal. Scientists just discovered that something very wrong is happening to it. Did Earth’s inner core really stop spinning? What apocalyptic events could this trigger? And are we doomed to become as lifeless as Mars? Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-earths-core-stopped-spinning/ […]
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You might have heard that all dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago when a 15 km wide asteroid crashed into Earth and caused a mass extinction event. But that – is entirely false. 00:00 Myth: All Dinosaurs Became Extinct 02:32 Myth: Dinosaurs Were All Cold-Blooded 05:35 Myth: The […]
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