Randall Munroe is the author of the popular webcomic xkcd and the science question-and-answer blog What If. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006, he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full-time, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they're getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions 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 never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.
默默的给五星 感受如下 一是这些提问问题的人脑洞为什么这么大书中罗列的那些五花八门 奇奇怪怪的问题 充斥着各种不切实际 异想天开 甚至有可能造成人类灭绝 地球消亡 宇宙崩塌 这些问题幽默 搞笑 却又耐人思考 可能以现在人类的能力无法完成实现 只会引人发笑 但是 凡尓纳写鹦...
評分一些無厘頭的問題,用科學與幽默的方式來回答,坦白說,讀完會有些收穫,卻又不怎麼營養,也不見得完全正確。它令我想到另一本經濟類別書籍 ~【親愛的臥底經濟學家】,幽默居多,實用其次,正確與否,就別計較。重要的是,在莞爾一笑外,啟發些思索。
評分这是一本能让极客爱不释手的书,但对我这样的非极客来说,也是一次妙趣横生的旅行,首先打开书我就看到了最别开生面的免责声明:不要在家里尝试书中提到的任何行为。本书作者是一位互联网漫画家而不是健康或安全专家,他喜欢看到东西着火或者爆炸,换言之他并没有把你的首要利...
評分一本脑洞大开的书,问题大多不是很现实,但却是突破思维定势的一种尝试,于个人想象、思维创新有一定促进作用。 大多问题,估计很多人甚至想都没想过。其实很多事情还是蛮有趣的呢。比如,"人以每秒1英尺的速度上升,是先冻死还是先窒息而死?将元素周期表中的元素都排列在一...
評分怎么说呢?作为给小白看的科普读物,又讲解的不够细致跟清楚,让我看的时候不停有疑问,而书里又没有给出答案,比如第一个例子中潮汐力是什么,潮汐锁定的地外行星又是什么?作者就这样用了,也不解释原因,第二个例子里为什么空气快速撞上棒球就会发生核聚变,又射出伽马射线...
xkcd作者的問答專欄,一本正經地迴答腦洞巨大的問題,好看得嗷嗷叫。
评分生動展現瞭「隻要腦洞開的大,蠢題也能答齣花」。
评分所謂“看著他一本正經地鬍說八道也恨不得舉雙手雙腳贊同”,就是這種趕腳!
评分講得太認真到都看不下去瞭= =
评分學術萌太逗瞭!插畫可以齣一個錶情包
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