Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent of the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there were a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. The results are optimal improvisational accounts leaving the reader with great clarity and hilarity.

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0:00 Introduction

4:20 About the Author

5:55 Ch1-5: What If?

30:45 Shmoke break

32:25 The Hang

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