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. […]
Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but there are a few with very real chances of making contact. What happens if a large asteroid or comet hits Earth? And what are the chances something like Oumuamua or Bennu […]
Book your visit at https://museumofthefuture.ae/en/book Billions of years in the future, our Sun will become a red giant and then die out. But when the Sun dies, where do we go? Well, Elon Musk’s Mars mission is starting to look appealing. Could Mars be the next habitable planet for humans […]
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Antimatter is the most potent fuel source known to humanity. And it could be the secret to faster-than-light space travel. But where in the Universe would we find antimatter? How fast could it make your spaceship travel? And why would you want to stock up on bananas on your intergalactic […]
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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? […]
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/ […]
Stay turned for our new exciting Saturday episode where Peter, our host, will do a real life What If challenge! One of the lucky viewers of that episode will get a chance to meet the What If team. This blue, marble-like planet looks just like Earth. But only five seconds […]
