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      What If the African Continent Broke Apart?

      March 10, 2019
      Cosmos

      What If We Replaced Our Moon With a Disco Ball?

      June 23, 2022
      Cosmos

      What If You Could Hear Planets?

      October 20, 2021
      Cosmos

      What If Jupiter Collided With the Smallest Star?

      July 28, 2022
      Earth

      What If We Could Control The Weather?

      August 24, 2018
      Earth

      What If it Rained Every Day for a Year?

      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, MSN New

      Could Solar Panels on the Moon Power Earth

      Not too far from Earth is a giant space rock that has silently played host to just twelve people in its entire history. What would happen if we put our cosmic satellite...

      Science

      What If Earth Orbited Betelgeuse

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse. Unlike in the movie, you don’t have to say it three times to make it...

      Earth

      What If All Life on Earth Lived in the Oceans?

      Right now, only 15% of life on Earth lives in Oceans. Today, we’re gonna crank that up a notch. You, as well as all life on Earth, are moving underwater. Would we have...

      Humanity

      What If Humans Suddenly Went Extinct?

      It’s the end of the world as you know it. Every human on Earth suddenly went extinct. And it’s time for nature to make its ultimate comeback. What would happen to...

      Science

      What If Humanity Became an Interstellar Society?

      What if humanity grew to be so technologically advanced that we were able to leave our Solar System and spread across interstellar space? Would we hop from one exoplanet...

      Earth

      What If Everyone Farted at the Same Time?

      Everybody farts. And it’s no secret that they’re smelly, gross, and embaressing at times. But what if, instead of trying to hide our flatulence, we all just...

      Cosmos

      What If We Dug a Hole Through the Moon?

      Scroll down to watch our video. The Moon’s surface is made up of long-dead volcanoes and impact craters from asteroids. But have you ever wondered what might be...

      Earth

      What If the Oceans Were Made of Gasoline?

      Are you tired of high gas prices? If only you had an ocean of gasoline. Well, now you do! In this episode, we’ll fill all our oceans with gasoline instead of...

      Humanity

      What If You Knew the Date and Time You Will Die?

      We all know our time here is limited. But we don’t know by how much. Are we better off not knowing when we’ll die? Or would a countdown help us all to lead...

      Humanity, MSN, MSN New

      A.I Predicts Why the U.S. Could Leave NATO in 2027

      What if a single decision shattered the world’s most powerful alliance overnight? Built on real-world data and analyzed through AI, this explores a worst-case chain...

      Science

      What if We Used Nuclear Energy as Our Only Fuel Source?

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Take a look at the two most popular energy sources around the world. Oil. Coal. Dirty. Scary. By some estimates...

      Science, MSN New

      How Anti Gravity Would Change Everything

      Are you tired of cramped city-living? Then anti-gravity might be for you! Do you want to soar effortlessly over traffic jams, while the drivers below you lose their...

      MSN New, Earth

      Earth in a Billion Years: What Scientists Predict

      One billion years into the future, you might imagine a world full of artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and space colonies. Maybe we’ll see the end of...

      Science

      What If Thomas Edison Wasn’t Born

      [dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Thomas Edison is one of the most famous inventors in history. He had over 1,000 patents and countless inventions...

      Cosmos

      Avatar’s Pandora in Real Life is Terrifying

      Avatar’s Pandora is the wildest, most beautiful and most deadly place in the galaxy. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live here? But how could the air kill you...

      Cosmos, MSN, MSN New

      Nuking Every Planet in the Solar System

      Humanity has built some incredibly destructive weapons. There are still roughly 12,000 nuclear warheads on Earth today, capable of causing catastrophic damage to human...

      Science, MSN, MSN New

      What Happens If You Build a Real-Life Periodic Table?

      How far into the periodic table could you get? Would you be breaking any laws? At what point would your periodic table start killing you? If you’re willing to...

      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 There Was No Salt in the World?

      Cities have been named after it, economies have been built on it, wars have been fought over it, your life depends on it. Salt may be the most important, and the most...

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