Книга: Randall Munroe «What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions»
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In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, digs through declassified military research memos, consults with nuclear-reactor operators, times scenes from Star Wars with a stopwatch, calls his mother, and Googles some very freaky-looking animals. This book features the most popular questions from the blog, but many (51 per cent!) are new. When Randall Munroe is your guide, science gets really weird really fast. Near-light-speed baseball pitches can level entire city blocks. A mole of moles can suffocate the planet in a blanket of meat. Yoda can use the Force to recharge his electric-model Smart Car. Munroe's hilarious and compelling answers explain everything from the odds of meeting your soulmate to the many ways you could die while building a periodic table out of the actual elements. Welcome to the strange world of what If. Издательство: "John Murray" (2014) Формат: 160x210, 320 стр.
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Randall Munroe
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Randall Patrick Munroe (born Biography A native of He has also toured the Munroe currently lives with his roommate Derek Radtke in The comic "xkcd" is a He had originally used xkcd as an instant messaging screenname because he wanted a name without a meaning so he wouldn't eventually grow tired of it. He registered the domain name, but left it idle until he started posting his drawings in September 2005. [cite video |people=@Google Talks (venue) |date2=2007-12-11 |title=Authors@Google: Randall Munroe |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24 |format= Munroe licenses his creations under the Other projects Munroe is the creator of the websites "BestThing", "The Funniest", "The Fairest",and "The Cutest", which present users with two options and ask them to choose one over the other.cite web |url=http://www.pi-con.org/guests/rmunroe |title=Short biography of Randall Munroe |accessdate=2008-09-25 |publisher=Pi-Con] The "WetRiffs" website was started as a joke, one month after drawing the " [http://xkcd.com/305/ Rule 34] " comic, "lamenting the lack of guitar-in-the-shower pictures on the internet" [cite web |url=http://wetriffs.com/ |title=Home |accessdate=2008-09-26 |last=Munroe |first=Randall |authorlink=Randall Munroe |date=2008-03-18 |publisher=wetriffs.com] LimerickDB encourages the creation of new, as well as the collection of old limericks. [cite web |url=http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/02/04/limerickdbcom/ |title=LimerickDB.com |accessdate=2008-09-26 |last=Munroe |first=Randall |authorlink=Randall Munroe |date=2008-02-04 |work=Blag |publisher=xkcd] Most recently he started a Geohashing wiki based on one of his comics which contains an Aside from maintaining his websites, Munroe also engages in kite photography, in which cameras are attached to kites and pictures are then taken of the ground or buildings. [Ben Kuchera, " [http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/07/02/the-joys-of-kite-photography The joys of kite photography] ", See also * References External links * [http://xkcd.com xkcd] the webcomic's site with links to his web store, forums, and blag (blog). Persondata Источник: Randall Munroe
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** [http://thefunniest.info/ The Funniest]
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* [http://wetriffs.com/ WetRiffs]
* [http://limerickdb.com/ LimerickDB]
* [http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page Geohashing wiki]
* [http://es.xkcd.com/xkcd-es/ xkcd-es] Spanish version of the webcomic.
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