原作：http://what-if.xkcd.com/121 译者：猪的米 What if 系列：https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问： 如果在盛夏时节美国所有的河流都在一瞬间冰冻起来会发生什么？ —— Zoe Cutler 回答： 这是又一个结局比我预想的要惨的问题。 （你这话说的我心中一凉） 首先，河流里几乎所有的生物都会死去。结果是好几种鱼类将会彻底灭绝（你可以在这个网站上找到只存在于密西西比河及其支流里的鱼类），还有很多种鱼类将会受到重创。 随后这些冰块会开始融化。冰在融化的过程中会吸收许多热量，但是在现在这个情况中全美所有河流上都只有薄薄的一层冰冰，因而融化速度会快上许多。[1]这会导致局部地区的空气温度下降，但是整个环境系统实在是太大了，区区这点热量… Read more
Title Text:GENERAL JAN DODONNA: An analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has reinvigorated the arguments of the ‘artificial moonlet’ and ‘rogue planet-station’ camps. I fear this question is fracturing the Rebellion.
Title Text:A new study finds that if you give rats a cell phone and a lever they can push to improve the signal, the rats will chew on the cell phone until it breaks and your research supervisors will start…
Title Text:”I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on Venus and returning him safely to–” [an aide frantically whispers in the president’s ear for a moment]…
Title Text:For $5 I promise not to orchestrate this situation, and for $25 I promise not to take further advantage of this ability to create incentives.
Title Text:I’m sorry, but the author of this Facebook comment clearly believes you were.
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Title Text:Hey guys! What’s eating you? Ha ha ha it’s me! Oh, what fun we have.
Title Text:No way, we gotta rewind and cross-reference this map with the list of coordinates we saw on the other screen. This Greenland thing could be big.
Title Text:I’m working to bring about a superintelligent AI that will eternally torment everyone who failed to make fun of the Roko’s Basilisk people.
