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      Earth

      What If the Yellowstone Volcano Erupted Tomorrow?

      March 6, 2020
      Earth

      What If You Were Sucked Into a Tornado?

      April 25, 2020
      Body

      What If Your Body Could Be Recycled?

      June 9, 2021
      Earth

      What If Carbon Disappeared for 5 Seconds?

      October 20, 2021
      Science

      What If You Fell Into Jupiter?

      December 5, 2018
      Cosmos, MSN New

      What Would Happen If Uranus Collided With Earth

      It’s been 30 days since Uranus first appeared in the sky. At first, it looked like our Moon had found itself a stellar partner. But then, we understood something...

      Humanity

      What If World War III Happened Tomorrow?

      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...

      Earth

      What If We Woke Up Volcanoes to Fight Climate Change?

      Several volcanoes around the world are being woken up on purpose. The mission? To use volcanic eruptions to protect the Earth from global warming. In what ways could you...

      MSN New, Technology

      Imagine IF Telekinesis Was Real?

      Since the early days of spiritualism, psychic mediums have claimed to contact the dead. During these sessions, their clients could see objects mysteriously flying across...

      Cosmos

      What If Earth Were Sucked Into a Black Hole?

      Could a black hole devour us all one day? There are millions of them out there just waiting. And if we happened to make a black hole accidentally, well, you better...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      The Reason Why You Can’t Walk on Saturn

      As you approached Saturn, you would be the first human to take in the glory of its rings and its swirling atmosphere in person. Along the way, you would pass a few of...

      Cosmos, Earth, Humanity

      48 Hours After Alien Contact

      It starts with a signal. Faint, strange, and unlike anything humanity has ever recorded. Within hours, it escalates into an event that changes the course of history as...

      Cosmos

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Every Planet in the Solar System?

      You start your day hearing wild news. Jupiter has just swallowed Saturn. And it doesn’t stop there. Jupiter is on its way to swallow every planet in the Solar...

      Earth

      What If We Filled Our Oceans Up With Lava?

      How long would something like this take? Why would this change the weather? And how hot would Earth get? If you think something like this is impossible because we...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What Would Happen If We Could Open a Portal to a Parallel Universe?

      What if there are other universes, just like ours? With an infinite number of Earths? With uncountable versions of you? And what if we don’t have to look too far...

      Cosmos, Earth

      What If the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Struck Earth in 2025?

      Sixty six million years ago, a colossal asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs and wiped out...

      Science

      What If Teleportation Was Possible?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Welcome to a world of teleportation! Where you can wake up in a remote corner of the world, teleport to work in...

      Technology

      What If a Flash Wiped Out Everyone’s Memories?

      Imagine, it comes out of nowhere. A blinding flash, spanning the entire globe. It lasts only a few seconds, but when it’s over, everyone’s memories have been...

      Cosmos, Earth

      6 Extreme Stars That Would Replace Our Sun and Destroy Life on Earth

      Imagine waking up one morning to find our Sun replaced by a cosmic powerhouse far stranger than anything we have seen. From giants that could swallow planets whole to...

      Science

      What If Earth Stopped Its Orbit Around The Sun?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Ready to have your mind blown? The Earth does not orbit the Sun… Technically speaking. Everything in space, Sun...

      Technology

      What If You Had 1,000,000 Bitcoins?

      The digital age is well and truly upon us. And in recent years, there’s no development more talked about than Bitcoin. Forget about dollars, pounds, and euros...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What Would Happen If the Sun Ate Jupiter

      In order for Jupiter to crash into the Sun, something truly extraordinary would need to happen. Its orbit would need to be drastically altered by a gravitational...

      Cosmos

      What If Venus and Mars Swapped Orbits?

      When it comes to planets in our Solar System’s habitable zone, one world is too close to the Sun, another is too far and Earth is just right. But maybe things...

      Earth

      6 Things That Would Happen if All Underwater Volcanoes Exploded at Once?

      There are over one million volcanoes on our ocean floor. And all of them suddenly started spewing out red-hot molten rock. The ocean is filling with lava. And nothing...

      Science

      What If We’re Living in a Computer Simulation?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] What if your reality was nothing more than a complex computer simulation? And if you were just a program on someone...

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