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I just read Randall Munroe's What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. It's a lot of fun, though pretty heavy going in places. When he says serious scientific answers, he means SERIOUS. 
SCIENTIFIC. 
ANSWERS.

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