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      Humanity

      What If You Could Work Anywhere in the World?

      September 2, 2019
      Cosmos

      What If Each Planet Replaced Our Moon?

      May 21, 2021
      Humanity

      What If Everyone Over the Age of 18 Disappeared?

      June 22, 2019
      Body

      What If You Spent a Month in Chernobyl?

      July 22, 2022
      Earth

      What If We Brought Europa’s Ocean Water to Earth?

      May 25, 2022
      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...

      Humanity

      What If You Traveled One Billion Years Into the Future?

      If you traveled 10,000 years into the future, what would planet Earth look like? Would most of its surface be covered in volcanoes? Or would it be frozen in ice? What if...

      Cosmos

      What If You Lived in a Cosmic Skyscraper?

      Wouldn’t it be great to have a truly jaw-dropping view? Like windows looking directly into space? Well, it’s time to build your very own cosmic skyscraper. What would it...

      Humanity

      What If Covid-19 Was Made in a Lab?

      Where did COVID-19 come from? Some think it originated in this Wuhan wet market. While others think it comes from bats. But could it be possible that COVID-19 was made...

      Cosmos, MSN

      What If a Gamma-Ray Burst Hit a Black Hole?

      What would happen if you took the most energetic light source in the Universe and smashed it into a massive gravitational monster? Well, you might reverse the flow of...

      MSN, MSN New

      What Would Happen If You Broke the Rules in North Korea?

      Welcome to one of the most restrictive countries in the world. Ruled by an enigmatic, tyrannical and violent leader, North Korean citizens and tourists can be threatened...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If Saturn Replaced our Moon?

      A huge gas giant suddenly appears in the sky. You look up in wonder. It’s beautiful. The second Saturn replaces our Moon in its orbit, Earth would just as suddenly...

      Earth

      What If Latin America Was a Single Country?

      What if I told you Latin America could have hosted one of the world’s greatest superpowers? Capable of changing the course of history in ways that only players like the...

      Cosmos, Earth, MSN New

      What If Every Nuke Detonated in Space?

      Nuclear weapons are the most powerful and frightening tools ever created by humanity. With over twelve thousand warheads spread across the globe, these devices hold...

      Humanity

      What If You Had to Live Through 2020 All Over Again?

      2020 has been one of the worst years in human history. It’s been strange, confusing, and often terrifying. But what if when the clock strikes midnight on December...

      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 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...

      Humanity

      What Humans Might Look Like If Evolution Sent Us Back Underwater

      Humans are built for life on land, but what if evolution had taken a different path and sent us back into the ocean? To imagine this, we need to look at some of the...

      Technology

      What If All Houses Were Covered With Solar Panels?

      Rise. and. shine! Get up and seize the day! You can do anything under the sun…when the sun powers everything. Your phone, your home, and all that’s in...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If Harnessing Zero-Point Energy Could Power the World Forever

      Imagine if we could collect the energy out of thin air. And I mean it quite literally. You know how you were taught that a vacuum is nothing but empty space? That...

      Cosmos, MSN

      What If You Lit a Match on Jupiter?

      Uh-oh. Looks like somebody left the gas running on Jupiter. Don’t do anything stupid, like lighting a humongous match. What would a match need to be made of to ignite...

      Cosmos, MSN New

      What If Jupiter Were a Rocky Planet Instead of a Gas Giant?

      Jupiter is old. Like 4.5 billion years old. It started as a swirling disk of gas and dust that formed into a pretty big planetary core. With time, Jupiter’s core...

      Humanity

      What If We Stopped Animal Testing?

      Experimenting on animals is a dark side of science and research. And most of us try not to think about the animals that experienced the horrors of testing when we buy...

      MSN New, Earth

      Scientists Just Found a Giant Squid the Size of a School Bus Lurking Off Australia. Here’s What That Means for You

      The deep ocean has always been Earth’s final frontier. It is darker than space, more inaccessible than most people realize, and filled with creatures that seem like they...

      Humanity, MSN New

      What If China Went to War With Russia?

      Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Wise words. But what if two of the world’s most powerful nations burned their friendship, and each other, to the...

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