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      What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?

      October 6, 2019
      Earth

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

      June 24, 2020
      Earth

      What If We Nuked an Active Volcano?

      March 11, 2020
      Body

      What Exactly Happens If You Get Hospitalized With COVID-19?

      May 9, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

      July 19, 2020
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      The Blast Is Survivable, the Fallout Arriving Minutes Later Is What Gets Most People

      You survived the flash. You survived the shockwave. You are standing miles from the blast, dazed but alive. You now have minutes, not hours, before the thing that...

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      They Removed One Plug, and the Pipeline Swallowed All Five of Them

      On February 25, 2022, five experienced divers entered the waters off Trinidad and Tobago for what was supposed to be a routine repair job. They were hired to fix a...

      MSN New, Earth

      Hydrothermal Vents Reach 350 Degrees Down There, and the Water Still Cannot Boil

      Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. Everyone learns that. Now go deep enough into the ocean and watch the rule break. Hydrothermal vents down there release water hotter...

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      People Were Already Dead, and the Music Kept Playing

      On July 24, 2010, around 1.5 million people were expected to attend the Love Parade electronic music festival in Duisburg, Germany. What was supposed to be a huge...

      MSN New, Earth

      It Looks Like a Kitten, and It Kills More Successfully Than a Lion Ever Will

      Put a lion and this animal side by side and the comparison looks absurd. One weighs a couple of hundred kilograms and dominates every documentary ever filmed in Africa...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Saving the Great Barrier Reef Costs $60 Million, and You Would Still Have $99.9 Billion Left

      Saving the Great Barrier Reef would cost an estimated $60 million. Put that number next to $100 billion and something strange happens. Rescue the largest living...

      MSN New, Earth

      Lava Hits 1,200 Degrees and Nitrogen Sits at Minus 210, So You Would Need Cannonballs

      Lava reaches 1,200 degrees Celsius. Liquid nitrogen sits at minus 210. Put those two numbers side by side and the experiment writes itself. What happens if you dump one...

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      A Bengal Tiger Killed 436 People, Then She Came Face to Face With a Hunter

      For years, people living near the forests of Nepal and northern India lived in fear of a predator that seemed to have developed a taste for human flesh. She became known...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      One Quadrillion Gauss, and Your Body Simply Disappears Within 1,000 km of It

      One quadrillion gauss. A one with fifteen zeros behind it. That is the magnetic field strength of a magnetar, and to put it in perspective, Earth’s own field...

      MSN New, Earth, Humanity

      8 Moments in Earth’s Past, and You Would Not Survive a Single One of Them

      Time travel sounds like a gift until you look at the destinations. Earth has spent 4.5 billion years cycling through conditions that would kill a modern human within...

      MSN New, Earth

      Millions of Maya May Have Lived Here, and the Forest Kept It Secret for Centuries

      For centuries, it looked like nothing but jungle. Dense Guatemalan rainforest stretching in every direction, hiding what turned out to be one of the largest ancient...

      MSN New, Earth

      Kessler Syndrome Starts, and Humanity Is Trapped on This Planet for Generations

      Every rocket we launch brings us one step closer to being locked on this planet permanently. That sounds backwards. Sending things into space should open it up, not...

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