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      What If Earth Had a Global Hyperloop Network?

      November 24, 2018
      Earth

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

      November 11, 2022
      Cosmos

      What If You Cut the Moon in Half?

      March 15, 2021
      Humanity

      What If Putin Never Came to Power?

      June 20, 2022
      1 U.S.A dollar banknotes
      Humanity

      What If You Had A $100 Billion Dollars to Spend?

      May 16, 2018
      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If We Finally Went on a Search for Alien Life?

      For decades, humanity has listened to the cosmos, hoping that somewhere among the stars another civilization might be trying to reach us. Powerful telescopes scan...

      MSN New, Science

      He Went on Holiday and Left a Dirty Dish Behind, and It Saved 200 Million Lives

      September 1928. A London laboratory sits empty while its owner takes a summer holiday. When Alexander Fleming finally comes back, his workspace is exactly as messy as he...

      HTS MSN

      A 70 Kilogram Komodo Dragon Sank Its Teeth Into Sharon Stone’s Husband

      Phil Bronstein thought he was about to get a rare photograph. In 2001, the journalist was visiting the Los Angeles Zoo with his then wife, actress Sharon Stone. During...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If Elon Musk Owned the Moon?

      When a SpaceX spacecraft intentionally crashed into the Moon during testing, it sparked plenty of online jokes about Elon Musk “leaving his mark” on our...

      Humanity, MSN, MSN New

      What If You Were as Rich as Jeff Bezos?

      As the CEO and founder of Amazon, the multibillion dollar online shopping company, Jeff Bezos is the richest person on the planet. With a current net worth of $270...

      Humanity

      What If We Vaccinated All Animals for Covid-19?

      The immunization battle against COVID-19 continues. This time, your pet’s life is at stake. Any animal’s life, for that matter. And even your life could be...

      MSN New

      Everyone Suddenly Lives to 150. Here’s What Breaks First

      Would you like to live forever? That may not be possible yet. But what if I told you your body could technically last for 150 years? What should you do to live that long...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Here’s What Would Change if Outer Space Became Breathable

      Imagine floating outside a spacecraft on a routine spacewalk when something goes terribly wrong. Your helmet suddenly comes loose. Normally, that would be a fatal...

      HTS MSN

      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

      A Single Needle at the Speed of Light Would Hit Harder Than 100 Nuclear Bombs

      Picture a sewing needle. Small enough to lose in the carpet, light enough that you barely feel it resting in your hand, and completely harmless in every ordinary sense...

      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...

      MSN New, Earth

      A Giant Weighing 5.44 Tons Could Return After 10,000 Years, and Nobody Knows What Happens Next

      These shaggy haired herbivores are cousins to the modern day Asian elephant. Weighing in at 5.44 metric tons and around 3 to 4 meters (11 to 13 feet) tall, they were...

      Cosmos

      What If Everything You Knew About the Universe Is Wrong?

      13.8 billion years ago, the entire Universe emerged from one single point in space. This theory is known as the Big Bang. And it’s the most widely accepted story of the...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Ask “What Can You Tell Me About It” and They Hide the Truth, Ask This Instead and They Confess

      Two people are selling the same broken phone. A buyer asks the first one, “So what can you tell me about it?” The seller says it works great. The buyer asks...

      HTS MSN

      People Have Survived Months Adrift at Sea, but Staying Alive Comes Down to Five Things

      Imagine waking up in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight. The sun is burning your skin, your lips are dry, and every wave reminds you how small and helpless...

      MSN New, Earth

      A Full Year of Nonstop Rain Would Reshape the World Fast

      Flooding, devastation, and disease. What could all these awful things have in common? Rain. And lots of it. We’re not talking April showers here. So, imagine a...

      Cosmos

      What If You Jumped Into Saturn’s Rings?

      Since its discovery in 1610 by Galileo, the rings of Saturn have enchanted us for centuries. Remarkably, we’ve visited Saturn before. Stunning photographs taken...

      MSN New, Earth

      We Painted Earth White, and It Could Actually Cool the Planet

      Imagine a white picket fence around a white house, with a white driveway and a white car. And it’s not just your house that’s white. It’s also the road...

      Cosmos, MSN

      What If the Sun Swallowed Jupiter?

      Something incredibly strange is unfolding in our cosmic neighborhood, a powerful and unexplained gravitational force is pulling Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar...

      MSN New, Earth

      A Certain Snake Can Do Something No Snake Should Be Able To

      What would you do if you grabbed a tree branch and suddenly realized it was not a branch, but a snake? Now imagine that snake launching itself directly toward you...

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