What-If Numbers @whatifnumbers
Numbers I've estimated, calculated, or found while researching questions for my What If blog what-if.xkcd.com Joined January 2013-
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17: Annual cost in billions of dollars to give every cat in America, feral or domestic, a Netflix account
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0.04: Average number of people directly beneath the International Space Station at any given time
0.000000000000000019: Fraction of the Earth’s mass made up of Roombas
71.4: Neil Armstrong’s lifetime average height above the Earth’s surface in kilometers
5: Average number of dark matter molecules in a can of Campbell’s soup, if dark matter were made of the same size molecules as soup
87,500,000,000: Current world population in gallons
1,961: Number of non-librarians in the US per librarian
950: Approximate total amount of pet snake in the US, in miles
2: Minimum diameter, in centimeters, of a rope made of DNA strands that would be strong enough to lift a human
22.1: Average weight, in kilograms, of a human leg
1: Number of What If books I'm announcing today blog.xkcd.com/2014/03/12/wha…
0.000000000000000056: Growth rate of a baby in units of the speed of light
100,000,000,000,000,000,000: Approximate number of transistors in the world
10,000,000,000,000,000: Approximate number of ants in the world
20.1: Heat production, in kilowatts, of a nuclear submarine's crew.
326: Weight of a Tesla Roadster sports car measured in gallon jugs of water
1.85: Average length, in meters, of the human genome
101: Global number of civilians per soldier
119: Amount of time, in years, for which the Curiosity rover's generator could power a Nintendo Gamecube and LCD monitor
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Luke Landherr @danteshepherd
9K Followers 574 Following Northeastern ChemE teaching professor / assoc. chair of undergrad studies. My research: making educational comics! I used to make Surviving The World. They/he.
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2 Followers 60 Following
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4 Followers 49 Following
Vaden K. @Vaden_K_
6 Followers 82 Following Professional dumbass, amateur weeb, self-proclaimed scientist, actual gamer, artist in training, writer in purgatory, youtuber in limbo. Check out my stuff?
Deco @Deco_Xu1
11 Followers 244 Following
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73 Followers 227 Following
DeeSimone @OpticksSky
1 Followers 30 Following A desire to connect and the motivation to learn how things work. Stay curious. Reposting anything that fascinates me.
Inbar @Inbar74499292
1 Followers 77 Following
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10 Followers 383 Following
Martin Milan @martin12333
153 Followers 3K Following #f8_text_file(s) (not only for PowerShell); #visual_conlangs; (and I am #survivingAntidepressants )
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162 Followers 224 Following
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5 Followers 61 Following
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Kanika @smashnext
2 Followers 16 Following
Zandria Smit @SmitZandri22066
0 Followers 2 Following
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32 Followers 168 Following
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19 Followers 87 Following
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3 Followers 17 Following
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Wojciech Waydel @WojciechWaydel
104 Followers 103 Following
n @gelocink
210 Followers 178 Following
Leidari Dey art and t... @leidari_art
36 Followers 114 Following Artist and traveler, living in Portugal. I post travel notes, artworks (also based on my travels) and new prints from my shop.
lav-may @lavmayenderrr
63 Followers 309 Following i write. ~~ art, linguistics, nature, philosophy ~~
Qafqazlı Swanson-06.... @QafqazlS
116 Followers 1K Following The ladybug has brought Qafqazlı hope when all hope was lost, and now with losing hope again, realizes there is still hope when he sees the ladybug.
All Things In-Sync @xavier_coutinho
354 Followers 2K Following Bullshitting my way through existence. Coffee by the day,Gin by night. Events-Designer-Investor-Traveller-Innovation Sarcasm-Books-Art-Life-Plants-Animals-WEB3
dwol @dag_boy
2 Followers 348 Following
Katie Mack @AstroKatie
373K Followers 3K Following Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. She/her. Dr. Personal account; not representing employer or anyone else.
Canadian Space Agency @csa_asc
367K Followers 1K Following The Canadian Space Agency coordinates all civil, space-related programs on behalf of the Government of Canada. Terms: https://t.co/58Nfe1GL0V (Français @asc_csa)
Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield
2.2M Followers 205 Following Astronaut, back on Earth after 3 spaceflights. For events and media, please write to [email protected] Order books at https://t.co/Y7p3sa0MX3
Emily Lakdawalla @elakdawalla
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