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Needs 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

Needs 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 ago
I 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 ago
  Randall 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 ago
    Thank 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!