What If? (International edition) Serious Scient 那些古怪又讓人憂心的問題 英文原版 [平裝] pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025

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Randall Munroe 蘭德爾·門羅 著

齣版社： Mariner Books

ISBN：9780544456860

商品編碼：19479624

包裝：平裝

齣版時間：2014-09-02

用紙：膠版紙

頁數：320

正文語種：英文

內容簡介

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, surprising answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask

Millions of people around the world visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans’ strangest questions. The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical:

What if I took a swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool?
Could you build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns?
What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City?
What would happen if someone’s DNA vanished?

His responses are comic gems, accurately and entertainingly explaining everything from your odds of meeting your soul mate to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements.

This book features the most popular answers from the xkcd’s What If blog, but many of the questions (51 percent!) are new and answered here for the first time. What If? is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.

　　《那些古怪又讓人憂心的問題what if？》是前NASA員工、超熱門科普漫畫“xkcd”作傢蘭德爾·門羅的新作，內容來自他的“What If”科學問答專欄，輔以“xkcd”經典火柴人漫畫，輕鬆幽默地將各學科知識躍然紙上。
　　如果人體內的DNA瞬間消失瞭會怎樣？如果把海水抽乾會怎樣？如果地球膨脹得像太陽一樣大會怎樣？牛排從多高的地方掉下來正好烤熟？全人類搬離地球需要幾步？這不是中規中矩的《十萬個為什麼》，而是腦洞大開的科學真相，小時候萌生的異想天開，都可以在這本書裏找到最機智幽默的科學答案！

作者簡介

Randall Munroe begann seine Karriere als Physiker im Langley Research Center der NASA, wo er Roboter baute und entwickelte. 2006 verlie? er die NASA, um ausschlie?lich Webcomics und Infographiken zu schreiben und zu zeichnen. Er ist ein wandelndes Lexikon der Naturkatastrophen, hat ein Kugelbad im Wohnzimmer, l?sst Drachen steigen, um Luftaufnahmen zu machen, und schafft den Zauberwürfel in einer guten Minute. Er lebt in Massachusetts.

精彩書評

Praise for Randall Munroe and xkcd:
"By speaking the language of geeks. . . while dealing with relationships and the meaning of a computer-centric life, xkcd has become required reading for techies across the world….The Internet has also created a bond between Mr. Munroe and his readers that is exceptional. They reenact in real life the odd ideas he puts forward in his strip."
—The New York Times

"With his steady regimen of math jokes, physics jokes, and antisocial optimism, xkcd creator Randall Munroe, a former NASA roboticist, scores traffic numbers in NBC.com or Oprah.com territory. One key to the strip’s success may be that it doesn’t just comment on nerd culture, it embodies nerd culture."
—Wired, in an issue featuring "the people who have shaped the planet’s past 20 years"

"Sometimes the beloved geek-chic webcomic xkcd is funny in a broadly accessible way. Sometimes it’s achingly poignant, sometimes it’s socially intelligent, and sometimes it’s esoteric humor that programmers or scientists have to explain to the rest of us. But at its most ambitious, it either packs massive amounts of interesting information into a small space, or engages in breathtaking experiments with the medium….[A]t its best [xkcd] isn’t a strip comic so much as an idea factory and a shared experience."
—Onion AV Club

前言/序言

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除此之外，作者還是一位漫畫愛好者，所以他能夠用妙趣橫生的簡筆漫畫更加準確地錶達自己的思想與知識。比如在講述人類可以扔齣棒球的高度時，他沒有直接給齣枯燥的數字，而是畫瞭一隻高為5米的長頸鹿，然後告訴你，平常人至少能把棒球扔到3隻長頸鹿這麼高，臂力不錯的人大概可以扔到5隻長頸鹿這麼高……於是，在一幅幅可愛的小漫畫中，人們很輕鬆地記住瞭普通人扔齣棒球的高度是15米，而臂力不錯的則可以達到25米。

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不錯的書，讓人腦洞大開。

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包裝有點不好，到貨後被摺瞭。

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很棒的書，這一套準備收齊！慢慢收！喜歡的很！～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～

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左上角有破損，還有指印。品相可以說是極差

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送給孩子的，目前沒看到，看到後追評

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書很好，很快就到手瞭，趕上做活動，買來劃算

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非常古靈精怪的問題，但是相當專業科學的解答，這是一本豐富知識的好書!

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