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      Body

      What If You Woke Up During Heart Surgery?

      November 1, 2021
      Earth

      What If the Earth Was Spinning on Its Side?

      May 9, 2022
      Earth

      What if Earth Dropped to Absolute Zero for 5 Seconds?

      May 5, 2022
      Body

      What If You Were Sucked Into a Whirlpool?

      January 10, 2022
      Earth

      What If There Was No Friction for 1 Minute?

      October 21, 2019
      MSN New, Earth

      Earth’s Tectonic Plates Come to a Complete Stop, and the Planet Enters a New Era

      Tectonic plates: can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Their movements cause some of the world’s deadliest disasters, but, as you’re...

      MSN New, Earth

      200 Million Years Ago, Earth Was Almost Unrecognizable, and Life Was Already Thriving

      Imagine landing on Earth two hundred million years in the past. Rather than feeling like time travel, it would feel like touching down on a completely foreign planet. No...

      Earth, MSN New

      Imagine If We Drilled a Hole at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench?

      In the western Pacific, the Mariana Trench isn’t the most popular travel spot. It’s frigid and bone-crushingly deep, not something you pick for your vacation...

      Cosmos, Science

      What If The Sun Was Smaller Than The Earth?

        How big is the Sun compared to the Earth? Imagine you were able to shrink the Sun to the size of a basketball. At that point, the Earth would be reduced to the...

      HTS MSN

      He Went to Venezuela for Love, Then Was Tortured for 695 Days Inside a Secret Prison

      Joshua Holt traveled to Venezuela in 2016 because he believed he was starting a new life with the woman he loved. Instead, the 24 year old American would be arrested...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What if We Built Vacuum Airships?

      Imagine floating silently above cities, countryside, and wilderness, traveling in luxurious airships without engines roaring or massive amounts of fuel being burned. A...

      MSN New, Earth

      The 5 Hunters Evolution Should Have Never Created

      Evolution does not have a conscience. It does not ask whether something should exist. It only asks whether it works. And sometimes, what works is horrifying. Over...

      Technology

      What If the World Is Only Your Illusion?

      So, is our world just an illusion? Why do some physicists believe that physical matter isn’t real? What scientific experiments have changed our view of reality...

      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...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      If Our Sun Became a Neutron Star, Earth Wouldn’t Stand a Chance

      Stars with a much larger mass than our Sun burn out after just a few million years; in a gigantic explosion known as a supernova. Moving at the speed of light, millions...

      Science

      What If Aliens Visited Us Tomorrow?

      Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets in the Milky Way alone, don’t you...

      MSN New, Humanity

      A Rare Few People Claim to Remember Something No One Should Be Able To

      Imagine remembering the exact moment you entered the world. The first light you saw, the first sounds you heard, and the strange sensation of leaving the safety of the...

      Cosmos

      What If We Could See Through a Black Hole?

      This star is about to transform into a black hole. And we’re about to travel inside it to see what’s on the other side. The only problem is that we’ll...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What Would Happen If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb on Mars?

      Life on Mars would be nothing like life on Earth. The first settlers would probably spend most of their time inside sealed habitats protected from radiation and the...

      MSN New, Earth

      Bugs the Size of Cars Once Ruled Earth What If They Returned?

      Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline when you stomped on a bug? Well, imagine how this guy is about to feel. Call the army, heck, call your mom, because the end is...

      Science

      What If Dinosaurs Never Went Extinct?

      How cool would it be to see a real life T-Rex? If only that one fatal asteroid never hit Earth.

      MSN New

      What If There Were Only 1,000 People Left on Earth?

      With so many amazing things happening in the world today, what could possibly go wrong? Well… A giant asteroid is barrelling on a collision course with Earth, and...

      Science

      What If We Could Breathe Underwater?

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

      Health, MSN New

      Here is What Happens If You Only Drink Coca-Cola

      Coca-Cola can do some pretty strange things. And the ingredients inside of it might be even more bizarre. Just imagine what it’s doing inside your body after you...

      MSN New, Earth

      If a Gamma-Ray Burst Struck Earth, Would We See It Coming?

      What if the brightest explosion in the Universe was heading straight toward Earth? Would humanity have time to prepare, or would the event happen so quickly that there...

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