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<div><b>From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask</b><p></p>Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall MunroeâEuros iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fansâEuro strangest questions.<p></p><p></p>The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical:<p></p><p></p>âEuro¢ What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?<p></p>âEuro¢ Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?<p></p>âEuro¢ What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City?<p></p>âEuro¢ Are fire tornadoes possible?<p></p><p></p>His responses are masterpieces of clarity and wit, gleefully and accurately explaining everything from the relativistic effects of a baseball pitched at near the speed of light to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements.<p></p><p></p>The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with the most popular answers from the xkcd website.<i>What If? </i>is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.</div>