Given what we know about physics, engineering, and the delicate nature of a human body, it's a safe bet that the person is going to get squished.Randall Munroe
Most textbooks and websites I checked suggested that, roughly speaking, the chance of any given atom 'decaying' in a single second is about one in a trillion trillion.Randall Munroe
Our bodies are full of tiny atomic time bombs.Randall Munroe
The oceans would boil and the atmosphere would burn off, but those things wouldn't kill everybody -- just most of us.Randall Munroe
Getting hit by a pitcher-full of fastball might not feel great, but it wouldn't be very destructive.Randall Munroe
It turns out that trying to thoroughly answer a stupid question can take you on some pretty awesome adventures.Randall Munroe
The speed of any piece of hardware making the round trip from Earth to Mars will have to be quite high to accomplish this within a human lifetime.Randall Munroe
If you're going to worry about something, try worrying about asteroids. The ones we know about don't pose any threat, but there are a lot we haven't discovered yet.Randall Munroe
Even a tiny fraction of the Sun's heat--less than one part in a billion--is enough to warm the Earth to its current comfortable temperature.Randall Munroe
Your everyday life is full of mildly interesting physical phenomena.Randall Munroe