That would be one Randall Munroe, and yes, he is. Not only that, he also has a weekly article called What if which takes on crazy what if questions with actual physics.
To keep this thread from being attacked by velociraptors and closed, make sure to actually say something in all your posts and not just copy/paste comics
It doesn’t have to be a lot, but try to give some semblance of having a discussion
This is a new one of the “What If” section.
I really like the 4th picture, with its subtle joke.
Another one I like but couldn’t find was one my dad showed me about making a periodic table of elements with the actual elements.
And destroying the world because of it.
I have a book from the creator of xkcd, called “What if”. It’s hilarious.
But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked
him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool.
“In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the
water, from gunshot wounds.”