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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This nasty little fungus has jumped from the screen into your life. You’ve just eaten the deadly parasite spores from the Last of Us. But where would you find this fungus? How do its spores turn living things into zombies? And how could this fungus improve your love life? 00:00 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
