It would be taller than the Burj Khalifa and Mount Fuji. We’re taking it to the sky today and touching the troposphere in a cosmic skyscraper. How big would this skyscraper’s base be? How would you get up by elevator? And what would living the high life in your skyscraper […]
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 […]
Most of us don’t get the recommended eight hours of sleep a night. But what if you went a whole week without sleeping? What would happen to your body? And how quickly would you start to hallucinate without sleep? Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-you-didnt-sleep-for-a-week/ 00:00 No sleep for a week 01:00 […]
You’ve heard the Soundgarden song, but how about a real Black Hole Sun collision? Most black holes are the remnants of massive stars. Would our Sun survive the collision, or could a black hole make some serious cosmic trouble for the ruler of our Solar System? Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-the-sun-collided-with-a-black-hole/ […]
Carbon is the primary building block of all life on Earth. Without it, humans would have no DNA. What if we tried replacing human life with silicon instead of carbon. What would silicon-based humans look and act like? Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-humans-were-silicon-based-instead-of-carbon-based/ 00:00 Silicon-based life 00:53 Carbon life 02:32 Weak […]
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The first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/whatif05221 We might not be alone in the Universe. Scientists from all over the world have their eyes and ears wide open trying to detect signals of life beyond our planet. But we’re […]
Cut down on editing time and write more confidently with Grammarly Premium. Get 20% off Grammarly Premium by signing up at https://www.Grammarly.com/WHATIF Scientists have pieced together a pretty clear picture of what life was like on Earth thousands, even millions of years ago. If you fast-forward one million years from […]
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 […]
