“If you call a random phone number and say “God bless you,” what are the chances that the person who answers just sneezed?
—Mimi A. It’s hard to find good numbers on this, but it’s probably about 1 in 40,000.”
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
—Mimi A. It’s hard to find good numbers on this, but it’s probably about 1 in 40,000.”
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“What if every day, every human had a 1 percent chance of being turned into a turkey, and every turkey had a 1 percent chance of being turned into a human?”
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“If a Venus fly trap could eat a person, about how long would it take for the human to be fully de-juiced and absorbed?”
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“How many unique English tweets are possible? How long would it take for the population of the world to read them all out loud?
—Eric H,”
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
—Eric H,”
― What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
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Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
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