What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth?

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6 ай бұрын

Get a copy of What If? 2 and Randall’s other books at: xkcd.com/books
More serious answers to absurd questions at: what-if.xkcd.com/
If you pointed the Hubble telescope at the Earth, what could you see? Could you read over your neighbor’s shoulder? Or would it all just be a big blur?
Randall Munroe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers What If? 2, How To, What If?, and Thing Explainer; the science question-and-answer blog What If?; and the popular web comic xkcd (xkcd.com). A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time.
Henry Reich is the creator of MinutePhysics and executive producer of MinuteEarth and MinuteFood and founder of Neptune Studios (the parent company for all three youtube channels).
Credits
Narrated by and based on "What If?" by Randall Munroe
Written & Directed by Henry Reich
Illustration and Video Editing by Lizah van der Aart
Illustration and Animation by Ever Salazar
Music & Sound Effects by Know Art Studios
What If? The Video Series is the official adaptation of the What If? books by Randall Munroe and is produced by Neptune Studios LLC.
©2023 xkcd, inc.

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@Bismuth9 6 ай бұрын

This Randall guy has potential, nice to see up and coming creators.

@jackg1135 6 ай бұрын

Nice to see you as well! Haven’t watched your newest video yet but I plan to

@shiftoff9936 6 ай бұрын

Randall isn't up and coming lol

@zSanityz 5 ай бұрын

@@shiftoff9936woooosh

@wildekek 5 ай бұрын

woosh@@shiftoff9936

@brightblackhole2442 5 ай бұрын

@@shiftoff9936 you should be nice to small creators. "randall xkcd" only has one video out

@Codricmon 6 ай бұрын

"Narrated by and based on "What if?" by Randall Munroe" I can't believe they managed to get the actual book to narrate the video!

@stevevernon1978 6 ай бұрын

that book has an excellent voice.

@anonymes2884 6 ай бұрын

What if "What if ?" could talk ?

@Dusterisp 5 ай бұрын

I squinted at that awhile, but the best alternative phrasing I could come up with was 'Based on "What If?" by and narrated by Randall Munroe'. Instead of despairing over the wording, I too will accept the headcanon that these video is narrated by the book. A shame; I was hoping to get Mr Munroe's voice reveal one of these days.

@WorldsUnhealthiestFitPerson 5 ай бұрын

Next thing you know, they'll get some employees to wash hands for you!

@realitywave 5 ай бұрын

Guess it is an audio book.

@CleoAbram 5 ай бұрын

So glad you're on KZfaq! Can't wait to watch every video.

@HundredMillionViews 5 ай бұрын

Of course Cleo is an xkcd fan!! Makes me love her work even more

@datagamerbulby 5 ай бұрын

hubble

@H3n7yx76 5 ай бұрын

1.7K likes, 3 replies.

@bierymolina4379 5 ай бұрын

Next FAQ: James web telescope over earth

@erkinalp 5 ай бұрын

@@bierymolina4379 not possible, JWST cannot be turned sunwards or else its cameras would burn

@FabrisFanatic 6 ай бұрын

One of the US reconnaissance satellites referred to at the end of this video is known as the KH-11. It's essentially a HST that is designed for staring at the Earth. The US has launched over a dozen of these things in orbit. Makes the HST seem positively quaint by comparison: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN

@winterwatson6811 6 ай бұрын

thank you-i thought this was going to be the subject of entire video when i clicked

@flippington9007 6 ай бұрын

Fun fact: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly WFIRST) is built with a leftover mirror of those Key Hole spy satellites. The NRO had a spare mirror lying around but moved on to better telescopes, so they gifted it to NASA.

@brianorca 6 ай бұрын

In 2012, NRO gave two of these to NASA (with the electronics removed) so NASA could build more telescopes. One of them is nearing launch as the WFIRST mission next year. (The other remains in storage.)

@rockets4kids 6 ай бұрын

Even the little bit which has been released about these satellites is mind blowing. Also, the "11" is the revision number. There were something like 20 KH-11s sent into orbit. IIRC there were on the order of 150 film-based spy satellites sent into orbit. And in an unrelated note, Trump's release of a classified satellite photo revealed that the current generation are operating at the optical limit.

@travcollier 6 ай бұрын

@@brianorca If I remember correctly, the HST also started off as a 'gift' from the NRO (or whatever its predecessor was). Makes a lot of sense. In addition to just being nerds who think astronomy is cool too, the NRO gains from the more innovative technological developments a broader open community tends to come up with. It also allows supporting industry to build factories and such in the open for the scientific project, but make stuff for the NRO in secret using those facilities/capabilities.

@harrisonirving8751 6 ай бұрын

I've been reading xkcd since middle school and I love the webcomic so much. I read each new comic on the day it's released, and have read every comic multiple times. It's a big part of what inspired me to become a physics major. It's great to see it on a new platform.

@DanPassant 6 ай бұрын

You should read his 4 books if you haven’t yet

@harrisonirving8751 6 ай бұрын

I have, along with the what if Blog/Blag. Honestly I think Thing Explainer might be my favorite because I felt like a really learned a lot about stuff I had no clue about before.

@TheFremontTroll07 5 ай бұрын

Same🔥, love the comics

@tncorgi92 5 ай бұрын

I went through serious "What If?" withdrawals when he wasn't updating the web page. So happy to see this channel!

@mxandrew 5 ай бұрын

i remember feeling slick for reading articles about easter eggs on the xkcd website and finding them, it’s super fun with such a huge backlog

@KevinRiggle 6 ай бұрын

3:14 I'd love a follow-up about how ground-imaging satellites, whether government or commercial, actually achieve their increasingly jawdropping levels of image quality.

@AndyStarr0 6 ай бұрын

I work as an GNC engineer at the company that takes the satellite images for google maps (among other things) - it's a lot of work by a lot of people to get those nice clean surface images!

@MusicalMethuselah 6 ай бұрын

Gotta be geosynchronous orbits, right? I don't actually know but that's my guess haha

@TheHuesSciTech 6 ай бұрын

@@MusicalMethuselah Ground imaging satellite are typically around 500-600km above the Earth's surface, not the 35 THOUSAND km above the earth's surface that geosynchronous orbit would be. The best way to take a detailed image is to stay relatively close to the thing you're imaging, not move 10's of thousands of kilometers further away. Also, geosynchronous orbits literally don't move with respect to the earth's surface, which makes it a pretty useless place to image any part of the earth from.

@Tkmined 6 ай бұрын

From what I heard from one of the engineers on the gambit 3 project (1960s and 70s), they were reading numbers off of russian ICBMs (allegedly. The exact resolution is still classified, along with the program's cost.)

@nicholas4368 6 ай бұрын

Just finished my degree on the stuff (tho google man may know more than me). What is commonly used is a method known as push broom scanning where a single line of pixels (known as a linear array) scans the surface using this motion (edit: the orbital motion), building up a 2D image. To reduce calibration issues and (I think) motion blur, multiple of these arrays are used and averaged in a process known as Time delay integration (TDI). Hope this helps :))

@rtchau4566 6 ай бұрын

I'd love to see a narrated/animated version of the debut What If.... the relativistic baseball. I've been an xkcd fan forever, so great to see a video version of What If appearing!

@fcr619 5 ай бұрын

I agree. Hopefully this will be one of next vids.

@MMuraseofSandvich 5 ай бұрын

The audiobook exists and theoretically they could use that for the soundtrack, although they would have to work it out with Wil Wheaton's people (he's the narrator of the audiobook).

@LoneStarr1979 2 ай бұрын

So... guess from which exact video I got here 🙂

@RareEarthSeries 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely fantastic

@iamkapilkalra 6 ай бұрын

Just here from Minute Physics!

@J75Pootle 6 ай бұрын

Hah that's funny, I'm here from Minute Earth!

@GreenPoint_one 6 ай бұрын

@@J75Pootlemin. Earth too

@user-yw8sr3uj1w 6 ай бұрын

Same!!

@iFreshCrispy 6 ай бұрын

I'm here from ur mums place. Last night

@GreenPoint_one 6 ай бұрын

@@iFreshCrispy necrophile?

@dbp_patel_1994 6 ай бұрын

Wow! An official video series adaptation of xkcd stuff?! Thank you so much, Randall and Team! I hope this medium brings your content and ideas to more and more people. As it absolutely should!! Congrats on this new project and all the best to the Team for this endeavour.

@my-rocket 6 ай бұрын

Story time. I worked at NASA Goddard when HST arrived on orbit. HST was designed by Marshall SFC whose specialty was manned space systems, and NOT unmanned satellites. It showed. In every system on HST it showed. Lost in the din of thousands of GSFC engineers all lamenting “but why?”, because of the nature of HSTs capabilities and technology, the NRO involved itself in key elements of HST reviews. If there was too much leakage from the vendors making key components of the KH- family of assets into HST, our adversaries could deduce the capability of the keyhole sats. The answer to “but why?” Was frequently because of the firewall between people who REALLY knew how to make extremely complex and capable telescopes looking down, and the team trying to make the same thing, looking the other way.

@TheMetalButcher 5 ай бұрын

You've gotta be an engineer with that many acronyms!

@camdensullivan5713 5 ай бұрын

i dont believe you, not because you seem educated or that I am too stupid to understand. Rather I believe that there is a certain falsehood around characters such as yourself who pose as such theoretical magicians using such grandiose or trite terminology to further confuse such, "simpletons". Sorry if my use of jargon has confused you.

@MatthijsvanDuin 5 ай бұрын

@@camdensullivan5713 uhh, what "grandiose terminology" ? You mean the small number of abbreviations he uses, mainly HST=Hubble Space Telescope ? (NRO = National Reconnaissance Office, the folks operating spy sats, and SFC is probably Space Flight Center)

@dodoservicesxbox3608 5 ай бұрын

This is all a lie because you can’t put a satellite past the firmament

@corvidconsumer 5 ай бұрын

@@camdensullivan5713 simple is better

@obiwanda 6 ай бұрын

I miss when the What If? page had regular updates, but excited to see where this channel goes!

@ainsliekr 6 ай бұрын

It's so cool to see a video version of this! Thanks, Randall!

@GideonFrazier 6 ай бұрын

I love xkcd so much! I have how to and what if and I’ve been a dedicated follower of the webcomic forever. Thank you for putting work on this platform!

@IwasFRAMEDiTELLyou 6 ай бұрын

Xkcd's What If blog was always my favorite thing that Mr. Munroe had ever put out, and I always wished there were more of it. Seeing this pop up on my homepage has me absolutely ecstatic!

@M0r0zkA 6 ай бұрын

Randall Munro you are a unique person, I have read your books, and realized that no one has ever explained more complicated things to me in simple language with humor, so there are also MINI COMICS there!!! I am your big fan, greetings from Kazakhstan🎉🎉🎉

@TheComputerCrasher42 6 ай бұрын

So excited that What If is getting videos now! I've read both books and most of the questions on the website, so I'm very excited to see some new stuff! I instantly came here and subscribed when I saw the MinutePhysics video.

@josukedrinkingcoffee7346 3 ай бұрын

honestly this is exactly how i imagined you'd sound like

@peterfager2892 6 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you did the sound effects of the desk whizzing past Hubble, that was amazing! Your books are awesome and I just got two new people excited about them!

@darkenergylambda 6 ай бұрын

I’ve been reading XKCD for over 15 years. Glad to have it as KZfaq channel!

@LackofPants 6 ай бұрын

Randall, if you’re reading the comments, I want you to know the second What If? book was the funniest nonfiction book I’ve ever read. That is, if you can consider it nonfiction. Some of those questions are kinda outlandish. I’m so glad there’s finally a video series to supplement it.

@rocketman2tm 6 ай бұрын

Wait, is What if nonfiction?

@mr_thecyborg 6 ай бұрын

I guess it would go in the boba fett category. (Only real fans get the joke)

@U20E0 5 ай бұрын

@@rocketman2tm technically yes

@joechen9770 6 ай бұрын

I go to XKCD's What If site many times a week even though there are rarely updates. It's an entertaining read if I need to kill time at work without having to go to social media sites. Super excited to see there's a KZfaq channel now!

@flyguy8791 5 ай бұрын

It's great to see you here on KZfaq! Some of my favorite books I've read (and of course my favorite webcomic)!

@zechariahunderwood5851 6 ай бұрын

I'm so Excited for this Channel! I've been using XKCD comics and books for my classroom for years now and this will engage on a whole new level!

@AaronxATL 6 ай бұрын

Awesome video! Anyone interested in the satellites mentioned at the end should check out the “secret” KH-11. They used to be launched on the shuttle too. There’s a few pictures out there believed to have came from them.

@ericfielding2540 6 ай бұрын

Many of the early high-resolution satellite images have been declassified and released to the public. I am not sure if the KH-11 images have been released yet.

@ronblack7870 5 ай бұрын

trump showed one when he was president because he doesn't care about secrets.@@ericfielding2540

@AaronxATL 5 ай бұрын

You’re trying to over generalize something I was already fairly nuanced with. You are correct, sure, just as long as we’re stressing declassified and not the released to the public part. Anyone can just look into believed KH-11 photos. A good place to start is USA-224, maybe Samuel Loring Morison, and decide for yourself from there what you choose to believe. I don’t know why you needed to comment that.

@johncho3467 5 ай бұрын

The 45th President happened to have tweeted it out relatively early in recently. (A photo of a failed Iranian space launch) So now we know.

@emmydothething 6 ай бұрын

I'm so excited! Every year during standardized testing, I bring books for kids who don't have one. And every year, students end up fighting over What If and How-To. I can't wait to share your videos with my students!

@aepokkvulpex 5 ай бұрын

I'm so happy to see you venturing into KZfaq after years of reading your comics - you have a great voice for this!

@BindMedia 5 ай бұрын

This is the best thing to happen to youtube, been reading what if again, its nice to have the fun visuals with a narration. Great work mr Munroe!

@Stephen_Lafferty 5 ай бұрын

I'm very happy to have been alerted to the existence of this channel with only its second video published! I'm looking forward to more educational and entertaining content!

@kaustubhjoshi3975 6 ай бұрын

Finished book 1 a while back. Started book 2 yesterday ! What an absolute treat

@BFAYW Ай бұрын

Is this the first comment?

@lectorserelith 5 ай бұрын

Randal welcome to KZfaq!! I'm so excited you're doing these!!!

@OtakuUnitedStudio 5 ай бұрын

Thank you, Randall! I still haven't managed fo get through all of Thing Explainer to move onto What If? Vol. 1 due to life circumstances, so having some of them as videos is a big help. I was a huge fan of them on the main site and still really want to get the books!

@teamcyeborg 6 ай бұрын

Randall sounds surprisingly exactly how I imagined Cueball to sound, I love it

@xxFxDx 6 ай бұрын

I love xkcd to death and am glad that I can now also watch you on youtube. Also shoutout to minutephysics for bringing me here.

@augustofilosi4706 5 ай бұрын

So excited to see Randall Munroe post content on youtube! My parents gave me "What If" as a birthday gift when i was younger and loved it so much!

@haiderhussain3237 6 ай бұрын

I have been reading your books, and what if? has been my favorite book of all time. Great first video! Can’t wait for more scientifically accurate absurdity!

@aurisbunni 6 ай бұрын

so glad an xkcd channel popped up now, here from minute physics ❤

@DaveTexas 5 ай бұрын

I don’t know why I’ve never looked for a "What If?" channel - I love the books - but I’m now a subscriber here! This video is very cool, as I was a professional photographer for about 20 years and I know all about shutter speed vs movement vs resolution. Studying photojournalism in college, we had to learn how to track objects while dragging the shutter in low-light situations in order to get a relatively non-blurred photo of a moving object. I spent hours on the fourth floor of the building where I worked, hanging out a window after sunset and trying to get good photos of passing cars on the street almost directly below. It’s very, very hard to do, even when you’re holding the camera. I can imagine the difficulty in trying to do that remotely on a telescope with limited speed for movement…

@gordontaylor2815 5 ай бұрын

It looks like this "What If?" channel was only created recently - this video is the first one that's been uploaded here (although judging from the related videos it looks like XKCD has sometimes guess starred on minutephysics in the past).

@DaveTexas 5 ай бұрын

@@gordontaylor2815 I see that now! The KZfaq algorithm obviously worked well in this case, suggesting a channel that I would definitely love right when that channel first started. Although I have to admit that I’m a little sad that they don’t have dozens or hundreds of older videos that I can binge-watch… That’s always the best part of finding something new here. Oh well, at least I’m subscribed so I won’t miss anything.

@smirkingrevenge6 6 ай бұрын

So stoked for more of everything xkcd!! A very pleasant surprise, love your work and please keep it up 😁

@ahadmrauf 6 ай бұрын

Looking forward to seeing more What Ifs! The blog stopped updating a few years ago, so I'm looking forward to seeing videos of old and hopefully new questions!

@bird3713 6 ай бұрын

I've been a huge fan of "What if?" ever since it launched so many years ago, and I was sad when it was put on hiatus. I'm hoping this KZfaq channel pans out!

@meta04 6 ай бұрын

I've read every comic, every what if? entry in both books and the blog, every entry in how to, and most of Thing Explainer. I'm excited to see if there's going to be original questions answered on this one or maybe a 163rd blog entry!

@ChristopherWoods 6 ай бұрын

Hurray, delightful little educational videos to entertain us! I look forward to seeing these in my feed from now on. Thanks for investing time and effort into making these, please keep them coming. --this longtime enjoyer of xkcd

@colinhinze1115 6 ай бұрын

Huge fan of xkcd, thrilled to see it come to KZfaq so more people can enjoy it.

@TheSnake08 6 ай бұрын

Hi Randall, I love your books, and I have read all of your books. Im so excited now that there is a youtube channel.

@M0r0zkA 6 ай бұрын

Me too bro 🎉🎉🎉

@stonemannerie 6 ай бұрын

They even did it before Hubble was launched. They hinted at NASA, that they should enlarge the lens size, since they know for reasons, that there is a manufacturer, who can produce them and has the exact tools for it. But I don't think earth facing satellites rotate as a whole, as suggested in the video. You could simply move the sensor or some optics, with much greater speed, effort and less energy.

@gcriloux 6 ай бұрын

Earth observation satellites do rotate to remain in the same position relative to the surface of the earth (cameras mostly facing down for electro-optical sensors). However, they use their motion relative to the ground to take a complete image because they have linear CCD sensors, while Hubble has a two dimensional CCD array to create images which is why it needs to remain as still as possible relative to its imaging target.

@kaitlyn__L 6 ай бұрын

@@gcrilouxah, so they’re one of those rolling tabletop scanners (that always got misaligned with the receipt halfway down) ;)

@gcriloux 6 ай бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L except here the whole scanner (aka the satellite) is moving over the scanned landscape. No moving part in push broom scanners. Older Landsat satellites had moving parts (whisk broom scanners) that were more prone to failures.

@danielevans1680 5 ай бұрын

There are also earth-observation satellites with full 2D CCD imagers - I'd actually imagine those are almost more common these days. I work with one such satellite, and we do indeed roll the entire cubesat to track the earth from ~500km up. I'd be tempted to say those are more common these days than push broom or whisk broom, at least for new launches. The biggest challenge actually seems to be stabilising the satellite on that slew track, having whipped it around from a different target, so the motion is entirely smooth. Watching the raw frames as a video, you sometimes feel a little bit sea-sick.

@gcriloux 5 ай бұрын

@@danielevans1680 not sure about cubesats, as there are so many it's hard to keep track, but all the big birds designed for electro optical earth observation are push broom scanners. Even the slew of Chinese ones launched in the last decade or so, for which much less info is available, seem to use that technology for now. More generally, for a satellite in an orbit suited to its observation objectives, I don't quite see the benefit of a sensor array vs. a CCD line. The only one would be the need for higher stability during the entirety of the capture window which for big satellites is a more manageable problem than for small ones. Line sensors simplify the optics tremendously particularly for multispectral sensors.

@craigspaulding9711 6 ай бұрын

Came here from Minute Earth! I’ve always loved xkcd and both What-If books are incredible! This channel will be a lot of fun to watch

@SkienceGuy 6 ай бұрын

I am so incredibly excited by this new channel, you have no idea. "What if?" has been my favorite book since it was released, and I recommend it to literally everyone I meet in physics. I have also become obsessed with the xkcd webcomic recently, anxiously awaiting new comics to be released on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and I share that too frequently with others. There are multiple Discord servers where posting xkcd comics has become part of my personality lmao. To say the least, I am excited for more videos!

@JoelRosenfeld 6 ай бұрын

Likely, you could clear up that picture with the right priors. I have seen some incredible results with much worse images using L1 regularization strategies. Dr. John Murray Bruce’s at my university (USF) does what is called computational periscopy, which uses diffuse reflections off of a wall to reconstruct images from a monitor. It’s incredible. A Nature paper too. Happy to see you come to KZfaq, Randall! This is exciting! I’ve been following XKCD since year 1 or so.

@pyropulseIXXI 2 ай бұрын

The Hubble telescope is literally a keyhole spy satellite that’s been downgraded.

@Kushpatel9047 4 ай бұрын

More of these please! Love the books and now visualizing them with videos is mesmerizing.

@Master_of_the_Fish 5 ай бұрын

I loved your what if books and was so sad when I finished number two, but now finally even more can be answered, I love this so much.

@Human_that_exists 5 ай бұрын

Your first video is supposed to be bad not amazing

@HyperBirbN3rd 6 ай бұрын

Me and my friends have created a cult where we worship Randall. Don’t ask.

@ionz75 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful to have you on youtube so I have a constant reminder to check out your latest work.

@bradnail99 5 ай бұрын

Just found this! Nice to hear Randall’s voice after years reading XKCD. Subscribed.

@tonywilson4713 5 ай бұрын

Aerospace engineer here: Sorry but Hubble doesn't use gyroscopes for its orientation it uses reaction wheels and yes there's a significant difference. In my final year when we had to do 2 high level aerospace options one of mine was spacecraft dynamics. Most of my class took finite element methods and orbital mechanics. 4 or 5 of us (out of 40) took space craft dynamics instead of orbital and regretted it about 5 minutes into the first lecture when we realised how hard the maths was. While orbital mechanics (which isn't much easier) is about orbits and moving between them space craft dynamics is about orientating and pointing free bodies in space which sounds easy but gets into some nightmare maths. Because there's nothing to push back against when you move an antenna or point a camera the rest of the space craft moves in the opposite direction about the center of gravity. Its not so bad on things like the Voyager probes because of how they built them, but for things like Hubble and the ISS its gets into some weird math because things like gyros and reaction wheels cause things to rotate in odd ways because of precession. I did that class in 1987 during the time of Ronald Regan's Star Wars program. There were around 8-9 postgrads doing the higher level version of the class where they had to do a term paper as well. They were all sponsored by DARPA and a couple of them did some real interesting things the like of which very few people are aware of. Simply thing. let me say that making things like Hubble and James Webb work requires some extraordinary high level math skills. I still have nightmares from that class it was so hard.

@MrAdriennp 4 ай бұрын

Prime conspiracy fuel

@VulcanTrekkie45 5 ай бұрын

I'm so glad I found this! I don't know if you're just animating questions you've already gotten on the blog or if you're gonna take new questions, but I've got one for you: what would the the climatic effects of a ring system around Earth? Would the planet still be habitable?

@FergalToohey 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Randall et al! What a fantastic addition to youtube this channel will be

@tgypoi 6 ай бұрын

I've been a fan for a long time. I'm glad to see you're still making content for my to enjoy.

@Skimeric 5 ай бұрын

man, I was like 14 when I got the first What if book for Christmas, and now 9 years later im getting nostalgia bumps on KZfaq. xkcd was my childhood...

@spider_chelicerae 5 ай бұрын

Awesome! It's so cool that you are on here as well now! I've been a fan since I was young and can ever stop laughing when I read your answers.

@blackhawk15897 6 күн бұрын

Fun fact, back around 2012, the NRO(National Reconnaissance Office) Donated Two near complete spy satellites similar in design to the Hubble Telescope to NASA.

@Nameless13th 5 ай бұрын

This is awesome. I love your comic and I cant wait to see more of you on youtube. Instant subscription

@blacktimhoward4322 6 ай бұрын

This is the first video of yours that I've watched and it will NOT be the last. Very well done, thank you.

@notamiscreantfish8742 6 ай бұрын

Yay more XKCD ! Well done Randall. Thanks for the amazinfg free stuff - you are a strongly net benefit to our world.

@sashamyshkina1097 5 ай бұрын

I've been reading xkcd ever since I happened to pick up What If? in my school library when I was 11, and these videos are absolutely awesome! Will definitely be religiously watching every single one :)

@RazielBG 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for a video that actually answers the title in 2 minutes instead of 30 minutes. I'm so done with explanations videos. And i'm subscribing instantly to you.

@SergioRamirezLuelmo 6 ай бұрын

This is the channel I didn't know I needed. Subscribed. 😁👍🏽

@micahjones7837 6 ай бұрын

Yayyy! It’s crazy that I’ve read 3 of your books and so many of your comics and today I heard your voice for the first time

@simonrmerton 6 ай бұрын

Great to see you on a new platform. Looking forward to more.

@giosueleschi4981 5 ай бұрын

A Randall Munroe channel with mini videos of absurd questions? It is not even my birthday! Never read the comics, but loved his books.

@jhines0042 5 ай бұрын

I'm glad this came up on my feed today!

@stanley9868 6 ай бұрын

A video series of What If? is such a good idea! I love your books btw

@matterhorn731 4 ай бұрын

Super excited to see more What Ifs in this new format!

@wiseguysfs1834 5 ай бұрын

So excited that you're making videos!

@Spudman9 5 ай бұрын

i love all of your what if and how to books you're an amazing explanator and comedian

@john39er 6 ай бұрын

I don't think I've ever subscribed so fast.. Thank you!!! ❤

@way2tired2 5 ай бұрын

I just stumbled into this, and this is amazing. Please make more!

@loserock1 6 ай бұрын

Good to see xkcd content even in KZfaq!

@lajoswinkler 5 ай бұрын

Opening this channel was a great idea. I'm a longtime fan of your work. :)

@internet_polymath 5 ай бұрын

It's nice to hear Randall's actual voice on KZfaq, I was always hoping for animated videos of "what if" on KZfaq.

@laukinath194 5 ай бұрын

These seem fun so far! Looking forward to more!

@Freddisred 3 ай бұрын

I'm always just as informed as I am unsettled with the new info, thanks!

@centenarium 5 ай бұрын

Best of luck to you. Can't wait to see this channel grow

@jochemvdberg8898 4 ай бұрын

Ive seen all your videos and see its a new channel which is a addaption of the book. Love to get to watch more of them, so keep going! Such a cool concept these what if questions

@Cudddlefish 5 ай бұрын

This is easily the best video on the channel to date.

@TheAnimeLurk 5 ай бұрын

Really loved the editing and visuals. Have a subscription.

@JohnFoley1701 6 ай бұрын

Very happy to see this on KZfaq!

@BionicMilkaholic 3 ай бұрын

There have been so many situations where I share an XKCD because it applies so well.

@LastIcebear Ай бұрын

Hey Randall, a very nice video you have there, its so cool to see how you can explain such complex concepts in easy words and small steps, that's really a talent not many people have. I'd love to see a video of you on how we could resolve our current issues we have with this planet using the technology we have rn Love from germany

@bowlface 5 ай бұрын

Dude I loved ur books I'm so glad ur on KZfaq

@nmavrantzas 6 ай бұрын

Amazing :D Thank you! I've been reading XKCD since time immemorial, and this is just as nice.

@thoughtsintime 6 ай бұрын

Awesome work guys! Looking forward to more!

@shahporanpriyom 5 ай бұрын

wow i always wondered how awesome would be if someone made videos of the the book. Cant wait to watch each video

@RumiD12384 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations on coming up with your new youtube channel. Ill be looking forward to your stuff from videos now that I have already read the book and visited your website.