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      What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?

      October 6, 2019
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      What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

      July 19, 2020
      Earth

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

      June 24, 2020
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      What Exactly Happens If You Get Hospitalized With COVID-19?

      May 9, 2020
      Earth

      What If We Nuked an Active Volcano?

      March 11, 2020
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      This Is What It Would Take to Turn the Moon Into a World We Could Live On

      Humanity is preparing to return to the Moon with new missions that will push deeper into space than ever before. Each step brings us closer to long term living beyond...

      MSN New, Earth

      A 11 Trillion Dollar Canal Could Cut Through the U.S. and Mexico, and Change North America Forever

      How about we rip the United States and Mexico apart from each other, geographically speaking? It would open up new trade routes that would make a ton of money for both...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      A Once Warm World Slowly Turned Into the Red Desert We Know Today

      THE BEGINNING – 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO On Mars, this stage is called the Pre Noachian era. Mars had just formed from dust and gas inside the early solar disk, the...

      MSN New, Earth

      AI Predicts an EMP Attack on America, and the First Strike Could Leave the Country in Darkness

      For a moment, everything around you is perfectly ordinary. Then the lights flicker, electronic screens disappear, and an eerie silence spreads through the streets...

      MSN New, Earth

      This Is How You Create Your Own Periodic Table, and Putting It Together Gets Dangerous

      How far into the periodic table could you get? Would you be breaking any laws? At what point would your periodic table start killing you? If you’re willing to...

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      A 2 m Wide River Hides a 65 m Drop, and Two People Were Swept Away in Minutes

      The water is rising. It’s nearly up to your neck. You’re being sucked under the surface of the river. What began as a stroll in the countryside has become...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What If You Shrunk by 1 cm Every Second?

      A sudden reduction in size, shrinking by one centimeter per second, would expose a human to progressively smaller scales of the natural world, from ordinary objects to...

      HTS MSN

      The Temperature Falls to -153°C, and One Hour Could Be All You Have to Survive

      This red planet is our neighbor in the Solar System. But it has none of the components that make life possible here on Earth. It’s full of radiation and too cold...

      HTS MSN

      A Giant Fish Hit Her Kayak at Full Speed, and She Ended Up With a Punctured Lung

      You are out enjoying a lovely dive in the Caribbean when all of a sudden you see giant fish swimming your way. You know those razor-sharp teeth and gnarly-looking faces...

      HTS MSN

      A 310 kg Gorilla Can Hit With 450 kg of Force, So Never Fight Back

      Imagine you are hiking high in the mountains of Rwanda in East Africa. You take in the beautiful sights and sounds and ready your camera phone for that perfect shot...

      MSN New, Cosmos, Earth

      8 Minutes Pass in Complete Silence, and Earth Faces an Unthinkable Change

      The Sun is the engine of life on Earth. It provides heat, light, and the energy that drives every ecosystem on the planet. Without it, our world would instantly become...

      MSN New, Earth, Humanity

      $1.9 Trillion Keeps the World’s Militaries Running, and Removing Them Would Change Everything

      Militaries around the world are money-eating machines. And they keep getting more expensive. In 2019, the world spent $1.917 trillion on all the different militaries...

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