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      Earth

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

      June 24, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

      July 19, 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
      Humanity

      What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?

      October 6, 2019
      Cosmos, MSN

      7 Facts If Space Was Hot Instead of Cold

      We think of space as an icy void, where temperatures drop to hundreds of degrees below zero and astronauts need layers of thermal protection just to survive. But what if...

      Earth, MSN, Survival

      6 Things That Would Happen If Earth’s Land and Water Switched Places

      Cities would drown, oceans would dry up, and human civilization would be thrown into chaos. This catastrophic change would not just flood our homes but completely...

      Survival, MSN

      6 Things That Would Happen if Giant Insects Never Went Extinct

      Three hundred million years ago, Earth belonged to the giants of the insect world. Towering scorpions, massive millipedes, and dragonflies the size of seagulls dominated...

      Cosmos, Earth, MSN

      6 Stages of Earth’s Destruction If Mars Collided With Our Planet

      Mars is usually a safe 225 million kilometers away from Earth, but what if the red planet went off course and headed straight toward us? This nightmare scenario would...

      Humanity, Cosmos, Earth, MSN

      The Kardashev Scale Explained: From Type 1 to Type 7

      The Kardashev Scale, first proposed by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, measures the technological advancement of civilizations by the amount of energy they can...

      Earth, MSN

      What If Dinosaurs Evolved to Survive the Asteroid

      Sixty six million years ago, a massive asteroid impact wiped out about three quarters of all life on Earth, including every non avian dinosaur. But what if science could...

      Cosmos, Earth, MSN

      8 Space Lies You Were Told About Space

      From blockbuster movies to simplified lessons in school, many of us have been taught ideas about space that are not entirely true. Some of these myths are harmless...

      Earth, MSN

      6 Surprising Things You Would Discover If You Traveled to the Cambrian Period

      Imagine being transported 500 million years into Earth’s past, landing in a world that feels both alien and dangerously unfamiliar. You have just arrived in the Cambrian...

      Cosmos, Humanity, MSN

      6 Ways Humanity Could Evolve Into a Type IV Civilization

      Imagine humanity rising to a level of power and intelligence that feels beyond anything we have ever known. Picture people traveling between galaxies, controlling the...

      Humanity, MSN

      What Humans Could Look Like 1,000,000 years from Now

      Imagine looking into the mirror and seeing a completely different version of humanity, one with huge eyes, advanced technology wired into the brain, and even the ability...

      Cosmos, MSN

      The First 10,000 Days of Populating Venus

      Venus, Earth’s closest planetary neighbor is one of the most extreme and hostile environments in the Solar System. With blistering temperatures, toxic clouds, and...

      Earth, MSN

      What Was Earth Like in Cenozoic era?

      Spanning more than 66 million years, the Cenozoic Era shaped the world we live in today. From the rise of mammals to the emergence of modern humans, this era tells a...

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