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《如果這樣，會怎樣？》正宗續集，再度來解答那些令人匪夷所思的傻問題、笨問題、天馬行空的爛問題，只要用邏輯推理、數學推算、一點點物理、化學、生物或天文知識，它們就變成讓人大腦開竅的好問題啦！The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to askThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide f

如果這樣，會怎樣？》正宗續集，再度來解答那些令人匪夷所思的傻問題、笨問題、天馬行空的爛問題，只要用邏輯推理、數學推算、一點點物理、化學、生物或天文知識，它們就變成讓人大腦開竅的好問題啦！The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to ask The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer door at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist. Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this

《如果這樣，會怎樣？》正宗續集，再度來解答那些令人匪夷所思的傻問題、笨問題、天馬行空的爛問題，只要用邏輯推理、數學推算、一點點物理、化學、生物或天文知識，它們就變成讓人大腦開竅的好問題啦！The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to askThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide f

本書為 What If? 十週年紀念版，不止重新修訂，並增加全新插圖與註解，以更清晰的方式呈現那些看似荒誕卻引人深思的科學問題。從「光速九成的球會怎麼飛？」到「月亮若消失會發生什麼？」讀者跟著作者循著計算、模擬與查證，一步步理解科學背後的邏輯。Munroe 以一貫幽默筆調展示科學如何解答人們從未想過要問的問題，而 簡潔插畫讓複雜概念變得可親。十年後的增訂版本，不只是科學知識的延伸，也讓讀者在閱讀之間重新體會好奇心的力量。A special 10th anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd--revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to important questions you never thought to ask.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 runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterp

SPECIAL UPDATED 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSICWHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. 'Randall Munroe is nerd royalty' BEN GOLDACRE 'Brilliant' ROLLING STONE'Smart answers to silly questions: Munroe reveals all' GUARDIAN'Required reading' NEW YORK TIMESRandall Munroe is the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com.His readers ask him a lot of strange questions: What would happen if absolutely everyone jumped at the same time? How could we build a Lego bridge between London and New York?What if my DNA vanished?How long could a submarine last in space?What are the odds of meeting my soulmate?In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults everyone from astronauts to nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. (They often predict the comple

《如果這樣，會怎樣？》正宗續集，再度來解答那些令人匪夷所思的傻問題、笨問題、天馬行空的爛問題，只要用邏輯推理、數學推算、一點點物理、化學、生物或天文知識，它們就變成讓人大腦開竅的好問題啦！'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Totally brilliant' Tim HarfordWHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move mountains, fill the solar system with soup and alter the space-time continuum to answer them?Whether it's how to make a lava lamp out of lava or feeding the inhabitants of New York to a T. Rex, welcome to the weird, wonderful (and sometimes terrifying) world of WHAT IF? 2

《如果這樣，會怎樣？》正宗續集，再度來解答那些令人匪夷所思的傻問題、笨問題、天馬行空的爛問題，只要用邏輯推理、數學推算、一點點物理、化學、生物或天文知識，它們就變成讓人大腦開竅的好問題啦！From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, and the Sunday Times bestseller What If?, even more hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.

《HOW TO》出自知名網路漫畫 xkcd 創作者 Randall Munroe 之手，他以科學家的理性與工程師的幽默，帶領讀者探索「極度不實用」的問題解法。本書收錄種種天馬行空的情境：如何用錯誤的方式挖洞、降落飛機，甚至製造能量災難。作者以嚴謹的計算與荒誕的假設，讓讀者在笑聲中重新理解科學的樂趣。本書幽默卻精確，讓人意識到知識與創意之間的微妙邊界，是一本能讓理工迷與好奇心旺盛者都會心一笑的作品。xkcd 創作者 Randall Munroe 最新力作榮登《紐約時報》暢銷書榜首結合科學推理與黑色幽默的「反向自助指南」Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Wonderful' Neil GaimanAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling WHAT IF? and THING EXPLAINER For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it.HOW TO is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. 'How strange science can fix everyday problems' New Scientist'A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride' Nature

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing ExplainerRandall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Wonderful' Neil GaimanAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by d

《What If?》出自 xkcd 網路漫畫創作者 Randall Munroe，他以科學家的嚴謹與漫畫家的幽默，回答那些「不該問卻令人好奇」的問題：若開車衝過減速丘會發生什麼？恐龍在紐約需要吃掉多少人？臉書上哪一天亡者的帳號會超越生者？作者為此查閱軍事文件、進行模擬運算，甚至向核反應爐工程師請教，將不可能的問題化為可笑又可信的推論。本書以簡潔的漫畫與精確的科學推理，讓人驚嘆理性與荒謬並存的魅力。xkcd 網路漫畫創作者 Randall Munroe 代表作以科學方法回答最荒誕的假設問題幽默、聰明又出奇嚴謹的科普經典From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators.His responses are masterpieces of clari

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to askMillions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. 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?In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults 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. The book features new and n

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you mi

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing ExplainerFor any tas

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing ExplainerFor any tas

在《Thing Explainer》中，Randall Munroe 以工程師的精確與漫畫家的創意，挑戰用「最簡單的字」說明「最困難的事」。從微波爐、電腦伺服器到核能反應爐，他以清楚的線條與少見的想像力，將日常物品與宇宙現象化為易懂的圖說。這本書不僅是知識的導覽，也是一場語言與理解的實驗。讀者能在笑聲與驚訝中，看見萬物如何運作。以一千個常用英文字解釋世界的運作將複雜科技轉化為人人能懂的圖像語言適合對世界充滿好奇的所有年齡層From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro. It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do.Richard Feynman once said that if you can't explain something to a first-year student, you don't really get it. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this: he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words.Many of the things we use every day - like our food-heating radio boxes ('microwaves'), our

From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be

Science's most intriguing questions answered by the web's favourite writer, the genius behind xkcd.com. Munroe's hilarious and compelling answers explain everything from the odds of meeting your one t