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What If?
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Langbeschreibung
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 true soulmate to how many humans a rampaging T-Rex would need to eat a day.
Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and bestselling author of What If?, Thing Explainer and xkcd: Volume 0. 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, and has since been nominated for a Hugo Award three times. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth.
ISBN-13:
9781848549562
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.09.2015
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Randall Munroe
Gewicht:
263 g
Format:
195x126x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch