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Earth-Moon Fire Pole
- kempbellt 6y agoI love how 5 year-olds see the world. 5yo mind: The Moon is up, so if you have a fire pole, you slide down, to Earth! How long does that take? (Years of KSP experience later...) Oof... Up isn't really what I thought up was, and neither is down. It makes more sense now, and almost less sense at the same time if you try to explain it to anyone.
- CarbyAu 6y agoI have a 2 year old. I can't wait for this wild journey!
- bscphil 6y agoNeeds a (2018) in the title: https://web.archive.org/web/20180523010341/https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180523010341/https://what-if.x... Unfortunately, Randall hasn't added any posts since then.
- cuddlybacon 6y agoI wonder if there just stopped being interesting questions to answer. I remember him saying somewhere that he got a lot of questions that read as if the asker was trying to create a specific answer.
- sohkamyung 6y agoRandall Munroe has (re)started those What-Ifs in a simplified form for a New York Times column called "Good Question" [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/column/good-question-randall-munroe-xkcd https://www.nytimes.com/column/good-question-randall-munroe-...
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- bscphil 6y agoThank you for this. I'm shocked, I had no idea! I wish he would have put a What-If blog post up pointing people to this column. It's pretty telling that What-If has 573 subscribers on Inoreader (the RSS feed reader), but Good Question only has 3!
- CarbyAu 6y agoAbsolutely a fun read! Curiously, it doesn't answer the question.