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      What If You Didn’t Leave the Bathtub for a Month?

      September 27, 2021
      Earth

      What If We Entered a New Ice Age?

      September 7, 2022
      Earth

      What If We Never Started Hunting Whales?

      November 16, 2018
      Cosmos

      What If We Could Harness the Energy of a Black Hole?

      November 14, 2019
      Humanity

      What If Putin Never Came to Power?

      June 20, 2022
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      How You’d Survive Falling Into a Crater That’s Burned for 50 Years

      Located in central Turkmenistan, a massive sinkhole formed when an alleged Soviet oil drilling project hit a gas cavern in 1971. To stop the poisonous methane gas (CH4)...

      The People Who Saved the World Without Anyone Knowing
      MSN New

      The People Who Saved the World Without Anyone Knowing

      Throughout human history, there have been rare moments when a single person stood between disaster and survival. These individuals were not superheroes or fictional...

      Humanity

      What If You Lived in the Stone Age?

      Get your bone flute and gather around the fire. Today on What If, we’re taking you back to the time of woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. That’s right...

      Science

      What If All the Sea Water Becomes Fresh Water

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Where do you go to quench your thirst? The kitchen sink? The local bar? The mineral rich springs of Bergamo, Italy...

      Humanity

      What If Russia Turned Into the Next North Korea?

      What if in a stunning move, Russia, one of the largest energy producers on Earth, decided to cut itself off from the world? This heavily armed dictatorship has declared...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Lies Elon Musk Has Told You About Mars

      Elon Musk says he wants to send one million people to Mars by the year 2050. The SpaceX CEO has become famous for making huge promises about colonizing the red planet...

      Earth

      What If Earth Was Shaped Like a Donut?

      On our hypothetical journey, we’ve already tested out living on a flat Earth, a cubical Earth, even a hollow Earth. What do you say we try to survive on an Earth...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Left in Space: 12 of the Strangest Things Humans Left in Space

      During the Apollo missions in the 1960s, astronauts collected lunar rocks to bring back to Earth, but to lighten their cargo, they left 96 bags of urine and feces on the...

      Science

      What If Earth’s Axis Was Tilted by 90 Degrees?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] The Earth sits comfortably in its orbit tilted on its axis at 23 degrees. Knock the planet over – and it...

      Cosmos

      What If You Survived the End of the Solar System?

      Billions of years from now, the Sun will become a red giant. And then, it will slowly die. That’s right. It’s the end of the Solar System, and this is your survival...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Could a Jetpack Really Carry a Person All the Way to Space?

      Jetpack technology is getting better, and maybe someday, jetpacks will be available for your everyday commute. But what if, instead of just using a jetpack for a short...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Why No Country Would Ever Actually Win World War III

      Whenever people imagine World War III, the question is always the same: who would win? The United States, Russia, or China are usually seen as the three most powerful...

      Earth, MSN New

      What If We Dug a Tunnel Through a Volcano?

      Volcanic eruptions can be devastating. So what if we took extreme actions to prevent them? How could we drill into a volcano? What would be the benefits of doing this...

      Cosmos

      What If Aliens Came to Earth a Million Years in the Future?

      Scientists have pieced together a pretty clear picture of what life was like on Earth thousands, even millions of years ago. If you fast-forward one million years from...

      MSN New

      What Happens If You Were Bitten by One Million Mosquitoes?

      It starts with one bite. Then, one hundred. Soon, one thousand. Now a swarm of one million bloodsucking mosquitoes descends on you. Why is your blood their favorite...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Are We About to Create a Superintelligence That Outsmarts Us?

      We heard the warnings. But we didn’t listen. Now, we live in a world controlled by artificial intelligence. How did we let this happen? Will we able to survive...

      Science

      What If We Could Breathe Underwater?

      What if humans had gills and could breathe underwater just like fish?

      MSN New, Earth

      What Happens If the Mega-Earthquake Hits California Tomorrow?

      The mega-earthquake. It’s coming. We don’t know exactly when or how big it’s going to be, but it’s coming. It will be chaotic, and with millions...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      A Black Hole Would Stretch Your Body Into a Thread in a Single Nanosecond, and You’d Never Feel It Coming

      Physicists gave the process a slightly absurd name, which does nothing to soften what it actually describes. They call it spaghettification. Cross the boundary of a...

      Humanity, MSN New

      What Would Happen If Russia Started World War III Tomorrow

      Russia already takes up one-eighth of all of the inhabited land on the planet. And now it has its eyes on one of its European neighbors, Ukraine. Historically, Ukraine...

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