"What If?" By Randall Monroe
Aug. 11th, 2015 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroThis is the book by the guy who writes xkcd; and I find it hard to believe anyone who wasn't already a fan of his style of extreme nerd humor would find themselves reading it.
Based on his columns (link) but including some new questions and annotations to old ones, there's a fun variety of insanity. Light-speed fastballs? Disappearing atmospheres? Giant raindrops? (I fell way behind on reading the posted columns, so a lot of the questions and answers were new to me.)
My one big disappointment is that I thought a bunch of the weird "rejected" questions would have made for fun dissections. Instead they mostly get rejected with a "You're a weirdo for asking this, ha ha." Which seems kind of insulting to his target audience, especially coming from him, y'know?
Based on his columns (link) but including some new questions and annotations to old ones, there's a fun variety of insanity. Light-speed fastballs? Disappearing atmospheres? Giant raindrops? (I fell way behind on reading the posted columns, so a lot of the questions and answers were new to me.)
My one big disappointment is that I thought a bunch of the weird "rejected" questions would have made for fun dissections. Instead they mostly get rejected with a "You're a weirdo for asking this, ha ha." Which seems kind of insulting to his target audience, especially coming from him, y'know?
