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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · 3d

Real talk: Seneca Lake makes mysterious booms. Our world: Chicago evacuates to the mountains because the Great Lakes won't stop fizzing. Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Aug 10

Scientists at Los Alamos literally held uranium chunks apart with a screwdriver in an experiment called "tickling the dragon's tail" until one day the screwdriver slipped. Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Aug 9

The actual nuclear reactor is only the size of a truck but needs massive cooling infrastructure because apparently even space gets too hot when you're splitting atoms. Listen now at whattheif.com

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Aug 8

NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 because two-week-long lunar nights make solar panels pretty useless for powering moon bases. Listen now at whattheif.com

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Aug 5

Apple helps ALS sufferer to use an iPad in a demonstration of thought control (via @ambermac newsletter): appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

ALS sufferer uses iPad in demonstration of thought control

Apple's new thought control protocol has now been shown in use by Synchron, a medical company that has made a prototype for using iPads solely by thinking.

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Aug 2

Cities would install water pipeline infrastructure so everyone can live knee-deep in their living rooms to stay cool. Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Aug 1

No more sweating means everyone walks around panting like dogs with their tongues out during important meetings. Listen now at whattheif.com

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jul 26

Want to see taxi cabs on alien planets? Just position yourself a billion miles from the Sun and use gravity as your magnifying glass! Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jul 25

The Vera Rubin Observatory spotted 2,000 asteroids on its first night - imagine what a telescope the size of Earth's orbit could find! Listen now at whattheif.com

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jul 20

Shake hands with Usain Bolt, get the fast-running genes. Shake hands with Keith Richards, become immortal. Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jul 19

Fungi can trade superpowers through Starship elements, but humans just get awkward handshakes. Listen now at whattheif.com

What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jul 18

Scientists named genetic elements after Star Trek because they kept seeing Vulcan hand signs in their data. Listen now at whattheif.com

What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 29

Billions of neutrinos are zipping through your body right now and you can't feel any of them. Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 28

Wolfgang Pauli was so bad at experiments that people waited for him to leave the city before running them. Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 21

The Total Perspective Vortex shows you're just a piece of fairy cake in an infinite universe and that's the point. Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 20

Space is really huge, but Douglas Adams already told us that and we still haven't learned our lesson. Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 14

Jellyfish swarms are clogging warship engines while thermal layers hide nuclear subs forever. Nature's ultimate defense system. Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 13

Climate change is creating underwater stealth zones where submarines just vanish completely into thermal chaos. Listen now at

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Niayesh Afshordi @nafshordi.bsky.social · May 2

#BattleoftheBigBang is finally here!

Take advantage of a 30% discount by using this discount code (UCPNEW) when ordering from:

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 10

The universe might be stuck in cosmic Groundhog Day where every Big Bang leads right back to another Big Bang in an endless loop. Listen now at whattheif.com

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 10

Philip Shane @philipashane.bsky.social · Jun 10

This weekend I will be teaching a session within the Sundance Institute's weekend intensive, "NAVIGATING AI IN FILMMAKING" on June 13-15. Registration for the online weekend program is closing very soon, learn more at collab.sundance.org/catalog/Navi...

Navigating AI in Filmmaking

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Philip Shane @philipashane.bsky.social · Jun 10

This weekend I will be teaching a session within the Sundance Institute's weekend intensive, "NAVIGATING AI IN FILMMAKING" on June 13-15. Registration for the online weekend program is closing very soon, learn more at collab.sundance.org/catalog/Navi...

Navigating AI in Filmmaking

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 9

Infinite copies of you are scattered across millions of light years right now, just waiting their turn to have this exact conversation. Listen now at whattheif.com

What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 5

The robot revolution begins with a badminton racket to the head after being stuck on easy mode too long. Listen now at

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What The IF? @whattheif.bsky.social · Jun 4

Your Roomba is named Alan Rickman? Ours is Chad GPT because of false AI advertising. Listen now at

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