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Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe ran computer simulations, pored over stacks of declassified military research memos, solved differential equations, and consulted with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)
Far more than a book for geeks, What If? explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much smarter for having read.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe ran computer simulations, pored over stacks of declassified military research memos, solved differential equations, and consulted with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)
Far more than a book for geeks, What If? explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much smarter for having read.
Randall Munroe is the author of the webcomic xkcd and the New York Times bestsellers What If?, What If? 2, Thing Explainer, and How To. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time. The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after him; that asteroid, 4942 Munroe, is large enough that it could cause widespread devastation if it were to hit Earth. He lives in Massachusetts.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
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Genre: | Importe |
Produktart: | Humor, Comics & Cartoons |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9780544272996 |
ISBN-10: | 0544272994 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Munroe, Randall |
Hersteller: | HarperCollins |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
Maße: | 236 x 188 x 32 mm |
Von/Mit: | Randall Munroe |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.09.2014 |
Gewicht: | 0,939 kg |
Randall Munroe is the author of the webcomic xkcd and the New York Times bestsellers What If?, What If? 2, Thing Explainer, and How To. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time. The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after him; that asteroid, 4942 Munroe, is large enough that it could cause widespread devastation if it were to hit Earth. He lives in Massachusetts.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
---|---|
Genre: | Importe |
Produktart: | Humor, Comics & Cartoons |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | Gebunden |
ISBN-13: | 9780544272996 |
ISBN-10: | 0544272994 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Munroe, Randall |
Hersteller: | HarperCollins |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
Maße: | 236 x 188 x 32 mm |
Von/Mit: | Randall Munroe |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.09.2014 |
Gewicht: | 0,939 kg |