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      Earth

      What If Starbucks Dumped Its Waste in the Amazon?

      August 2, 2021
      Body, MSN

      8 Things That Would Happen If Only Drank Milk for the Rest of Your Life

      August 1, 2025
      Cosmos, Science

      What If The Sun Was Smaller Than The Earth?

      August 17, 2018
      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If We Built a Colony on Saturn’s Moon Titan?

      6 months ago
      Cosmos

      What If a Magnetar Collided With a Black Hole?

      February 7, 2020
      MSN New, Humanity

      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...

      HTS MSN

      5 Things You Must Never Do After a Snake Bite, and Most People Get Them Wrong

      A snake bite can turn into a life threatening emergency within minutes. Every year millions of people worldwide are bitten by venomous snakes, and some cases end in...

      Science

      What If You Could Make Yourself Invisible?

      Invisibility is no longer just a topic of fantasy or science fiction; several companies around the world have developed technologies to make it a reality. Some use a...

      MSN New, Earth

      The Sky Could Rain Volcanic Glass, and Here’s What It Would Do to Earth

      Forget anything harmless sounding, because this is volcanic glass falling from the sky, and it could turn everyday life into an itchy, blistered ordeal. Picture waking...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If You Spent 5 Seconds on Triton?

      You might be wondering how I keep ending up in these situations. Well, let me roll it back a bit. Triton, Neptune’s gargantuan moon, is one of the strangest objects in...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If a Nuclear Reactor Built by the U.S. Detonated on the Moon?

      Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing space dust floating around it. Maybe broken-off parts of the moon are raining down on Earth. You’d wonder what happened;...

      MSN New

      We May Be About to Find Thousands of Alien Life Forms at Once

      One of the greatest scientific discoveries in history may be hidden beneath nearly 13,000 feet of Antarctic ice. Deep below the frozen surface lies Lake Vostok, a...

      MSN New

      The Collapse of the Amazon Rainforest and What It Would Mean for Earth

      The Amazon rainforest is often described as one of the most important ecosystems on the planet, yet it is also one of the most threatened. Every year, large sections of...

      MSN New, Earth

      10 Hidden Hybrid Animals You’ve Never Heard Of

      Nature is full of surprises, but sometimes it gets a little help. Hybrid animals are created when two different species, usually closely related, produce offspring...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Every Human Suddenly Became 5 Meters Tall, and Civilization Would Struggle to Survive

      Robert Wadlow holds the record as the tallest human ever confirmed, standing an astonishing 2.72 meters before medical complications tied to his extreme growth ended his...

      Cosmos

      What If You Drank a Glass of Moon Water?

      Would you drink water that was extracted from the Moon? With NASA’s recent discovery of water on the Moon’s surface, it might become a more common practice...

      Science

      What If All Bees Went Extinct?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Food is scarce. Money is worthless. Riots are everywhere. The world is in chaos. This isn’t our past...

      MSN New, Earth

      What If You Lived During the Permian Period?

      The Permian Period, which lasted from about 299 to 252 million years ago, was one of the most fascinating and dangerous times in Earth’s history. It ended with the...

      HTS MSN

      A Grizzly Mauled Him Twice in One Day, and He Still Made It Out Alive

      For Todd Orr, an outdoorsman, what started off as a calm morning hike in the Montana mountains soon turned into a struggle for his life; he never anticipated that the...

      Earth

      What If Everyone Planted Their Own Christmas Tree?

      It’s the most wonderful time of the year, until you get the bill. With prices skyrocketing for this festive fir, it makes you wonder if it’s worth it. So...

      Humanity, MSN New

      What If World War III Erupted Tomorrow Morning?

      Human history has been full of battles and wars, some big and some small. But if World War 3 were to happen, it might be humanity’s biggest battle yet. Advanced...

      MSN New, Science

      Scientists Say You May Soon Be Able to Power a Home With Shadows

      For most of history, shadows have been seen as the absence of light. They cool us down on hot days, hide objects from view, and signal that the Sun has moved across the...

      MSN New

      Explorers Entered a Cave in Vietnam, and What They Found Inside Changes Everything

      Most caves are dark, quiet places filled with rock formations and underground tunnels. But hidden beneath the jungles of Vietnam is a cave so enormous that it contains...

      Cosmos, Earth

      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...

      MSN New

      World Without the Moon Landing and How Everything Would Change

      The moment Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon in 1969 became one of the most defining events in human history. Around 600 million people watched as humans stepped onto...

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