What If (2018)

Épisode 1 - What If Bees Disappeared?

14 février 2018 - 3/5

It's not just about the honey - if bees were to disappear our diets would never be the same.

Épisode 2 - What If the Sun Disappeared

15 février 2018 - 5/5

The sun is more than just Earth’s lightbulb - it’s what keeps our planet alive.

Épisode 3 - What If the World Ran out of Oil Today?

17 février 2018 - 5/5

A world less dependent on oil is one that might help our planet, but what would happen to humans if oil no longer existed?

Épisode 4 - What If the Earth Was Actually Flat?

21 février 2018 - 5/5

What if Flat-Earthers were right?

Épisode 5 - What If Earth Suddenly Stopped Spinning

22 février 2018 - 3/5

Our planet's rotation is mysteriously slowing down. What if it stopped spinning entirely?

Épisode 6 - What If the Internet Stopped Working

23 février 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 7 - What If All the World's Ice Melted?

28 février 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 8 - What If the Moon Landing Was Indeed Faked?

2 mars 2018 - 3/5

What would it take to pull off the greatest hoax in history?

Épisode 9 - What If You Suddenly Lost All Your DNA?

5 mars 2018 - 3/5

Your body without its construction manual. What could possibly go wrong?

Épisode 10 - What If Earth's Magnetic Poles Flipped?

7 mars 2018 - 5/5

Epic night skies.

Épisode 11 - What If We Dug a Hole Through the Earth?

9 mars 2018 - 5/5

If you jumped into the hole where you are, where would you pop out?

Épisode 12 - What If Gravity Suddenly Went Away?

19 mars 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 13 - What If NASA Had a Budget like the US Military

21 mars 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 14 - What If Money Didn't Exist?

23 mars 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 15 - What If All Continents Joined Back Together?

26 mars 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 16 - What If You Fell Into a Black Hole?

28 mars 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 17 - What If Everyone in the World Was Vegan

2 avril 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 18 - What If You Made an Actual Model of the Periodic Table?

4 avril 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 19 - What If Dinosaurs Never Went Extinct?

6 avril 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 20 - What If There Was a Robot Apocalypse Today?

9 avril 2018 - 3/5

Do you trust your computer?

Épisode 21 - What If We Drained the Oceans?

16 avril 2018 - 3/5

Why do we call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean?

Épisode 22 - What If We Suddenly Lost the Moon?

19 avril 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 23 - What If All the Coral Reefs Died Out?

24 avril 2018 - 3/5

How could we stop this from happening?

Épisode 24 - What If Plastic Was Never Invented?

25 avril 2018 - 3/5

Only we humans make waste that nature can’t digest.

Épisode 25 - What If Earth Spun Twice as Fast?

26 avril 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 26 - What If Earth Suddenly Lost Its Atmosphere?

30 avril 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 27 - What If the Moon Fell to Earth?

2 mai 2018 - 3/5

Dear Moon, please stay where you are.

Épisode 28 - What If Earth Doubled in Size?

3 mai 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 29 - What If We Stopped Burning Fossil Fuels Right Now?

7 mai 2018 - 3/5

"Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile." — Theodore Roosevelt

Épisode 30 - What If a Nuke Goes Off in Washington D.C.?

11 mai 2018 - 5/5

What would happen after the blast?

Épisode 31 - What If an Asteroid Hit the Earth?

14 mai 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 32 - What If We Terraformed the Moon?

16 mai 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 33 - What If You Had 100 Billion Dollars?

17 mai 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 34 - What If Time Travel Was Possible?

23 mai 2018 - 5/5

When would you travel to?

Épisode 35 - What If We Could Breathe Underwater?

25 mai 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 36 - What If All Volcanoes Erupted at Once?

28 mai 2018 - 5/5

Would you be worried if every volcano erupted at once?

Épisode 37 - What If Our Sun Were to Die Tomorrow?

30 mai 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 38 - What If All Cars Went Electric?

31 mai 2018 - 5/5

Could the electric car save our climate?

Épisode 39 - What If We All Lived on Mars

5 juin 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 40 - What If We Could Communicate Directly From Brain to Brain?

7 juin 2018 - 5/5

Have some Braintime with someone you love.

Épisode 41 - What If All Humans Suddenly Disappeared From The Earth

8 juin 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 42 - What If The Universe Stopped Expanding?

11 juin 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 43 - What If All Insects Disappeared From the Planet?

14 juin 2018 - 5/5

Thumbs up if you agree that these little guys are underappreciated.

Épisode 44 - What If the Earth's Core Cooled Down

18 juin 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 45 - What If the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collided?

20 juin 2018 - 5/5

Épisode 1 - What If You Stepped Into the Vacuum of Space?

22 juin 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 2 - What If We Discovered Alien Life?

29 juin 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 3 - What If You Lived 50 Years into the Future?

6 juillet 2018 - 3/5

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future?

Épisode 4 - What If We Never Discovered Antibiotics?

12 juillet 2018 - 3/5

Watch out for stray superbugs.

Épisode 5 - What If We Stopped Caring About Our Planet?

13 juillet 2018 - 3/5

Let's heat up that planet.

Épisode 6 - What If an Advanced Civilization of Humans Existed Millions of Years Ago?

14 juillet 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 7 - What If the Earth Was Cube Shaped?

17 juillet 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 8 - What If the Earth Was Hollow?

20 juillet 2018 - 3/5

Our solid core has given us life as we know it. But what if Earth was hollow?

Épisode 9 - What If You Could Clone Your Body?

27 juillet 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 10 - What If the World Lost Oxygen for Five Seconds

3 août 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 11 - What If Fire Was Never Discovered?

10 août 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 12 - What If The Sun Was Smaller Than The Earth?

17 août 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 13 - What If We Stopped Recycling

21 août 2018 - 3/5

What if everyone was as lazy as you and didn't recycle?

Épisode 14 - What If We Could Control The Weather?

24 août 2018 - 3/5

Who would decide what kind of weather to make?

Épisode 15 - What If You Had To Repopulate The Planet?

28 août 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 16 - What If A Rogue Planet Entered Our Solar System?

31 août 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 17 - What If Oxygen Doubled in Earth’s Atmosphere?

8 septembre 2018 - 3/5

Would giant insects roam the streets if there was more oxygen in the atmosphere?

Épisode 18 - What If We Had Two Suns?

11 septembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 19 - What If The Ocean Was Transparent?

15 septembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 20 - What If the Earth Was Tidally Locked to the Sun?

17 septembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 21 - What If We Started Mining Asteroids?

19 septembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 22 - What If You Were Born on a Space Station?

24 septembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 23 - What If There Was a Meal Replacement Pill?

26 septembre 2018 - 3/5

Meal replacement pills are the future. At least, that’s what people have been saying for the past century. Why don't we have them yet?

Épisode 24 - What If The Transistor Was Never Invented?

28 septembre 2018 - 3/5

Even the tiniest of things can have a huge impact on humanity.

Épisode 25 - What If a Coin-Sized Black Hole Appeared On Earth

3 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 26 - What If Driverless Cars Ruled The World?

5 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Are driverless cars exciting or terrifying?

Épisode 27 - What If We Sent All of Our Garbage Into Space?

8 octobre 2018 - 3/5

How can we stop humans from filling the world with trash?

Épisode 28 - What If You Had the Strength of a Superhero?

10 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 29 - What If We Built a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun?

12 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 30 - What If We Built an Elevator to Space?

15 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 31 - What If Earth Had Two Moons?

19 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 32 - What If the Sahara Desert Was Covered With Solar Panels?

22 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 33 - What If a Wormhole Formed in Our Solar System?

24 octobre 2018 - 3/5

If we ever attempted to send someone through a wormhole back in time, wouldn't we already know if we succeeded or not?

Épisode 34 - What If Planet X Was Real?

26 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 35 - What If Everyone Flushed at the Same Time?

29 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 36 - What If We Could Build a Replica of the Sun on Earth?

31 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 37 - What If There Were No More Cats?

2 novembre 2018 - 3/5

How dramatically would rodent populations increase if all cats suddenly vanished?

Épisode 38 - What If Genetically Modified People Became the Norm?

5 novembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 39 - What If Earth Had a Large Elliptical Orbit?

7 novembre 2018 - 3/5

What if Earth's orbit ventured as far from the Sun as Pluto and as close to it as Venus?

Épisode 40 - What If Everyone Lived Underground?

9 novembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 41 - What If We Used the Full Capacity of Our Brains?

12 novembre 2018 - 3/5

What if it was true that we only use 10% of our brain‘s capacity?

Épisode 42 - What If Our Sun Became a Black Dwarf?

14 novembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 43 - What If We Never Started Hunting Whales?

16 novembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 44 - What If We Lost Our Senses One After the Other?

19 novembre 2018 - 3/5

If you lost all but one of your 5 senses, which one would you not want to lose and why?

Épisode 45 - What If You Were a Space Tourist?

21 novembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 46 - What If the Earth Was a Moon of Jupiter?

22 novembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 47 - What If There Was a 3rd Industrial Revolution?

23 novembre 2018 - 3/5

What if we're already part of a 3rd industrial revolution?

Épisode 48 - What If Earth Had a Global Hyperloop Network?

24 novembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 49 - What If Humanity Became an Interstellar Society?

26 novembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 50 - What If Earth's Oceans Evaporated?

28 novembre 2018 - 3/5

Without water, everything is nothing.

Épisode 51 - What If We Built an Artificial Planet?

29 novembre 2018 - 3/5

What would it take to build a new, artificial planet?

Épisode 52 - What If We’re Living in a Computer Simulation?

1 décembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 53 - What If Time Is an Illusion?

3 décembre 2018 - 3/5

What if the past, present and future all exist at once?

Épisode 54 - What If You Fell Into Jupiter?

5 décembre 2018 - 3/5

Would you keep falling to the center?

Épisode 55 - What If Mermaids and Mermen Existed?

7 décembre 2018 - 3/5

What if you lived your life as a mermaid or merdude? Guest episode written by fantasy writer Sonia Faruqi.

Épisode 56 - What If Humans Were Immortal?

7 décembre 2018 - 3/5

What if your time here on Earth wasn't limited?

Épisode 57 - What If All Plate Tectonics Movement Stopped Forever?

9 décembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 58 - What If a Black Hole Entered Our Solar System?

11 décembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 59 - What If Companies Had to Pay to Pollute the Planet?

13 décembre 2018 - 3/5

Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global carbon emissions. So, why don't we make them pay for polluting the planet?

Épisode 60 - What If Earth's Topography Was Inverted?

15 décembre 2018 - 3/5

What if Earth's land became ocean and ocean became land?

Épisode 61 - What If We Terraformed Venus?

17 décembre 2018 - 3/5

Would you want your children to become Venusian cloud pirates?

Épisode 62 - What If Life Didn’t Originate on Earth?

19 décembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 63 - What If There Were No Limits to Organ Transplantation?

21 décembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 64 - What If Jupiter Became a Star?

23 décembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 65 - What If Humans Could Hibernate?

25 décembre 2018 - 3/5

What's the longest you've ever slept?

Épisode 66 - What If Teleportation Was Possible?

27 décembre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 67 - What If We Nuked the Moon?

29 décembre 2018 - 3/5

The U.S. once planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon. What would have happened?

Épisode 68 - What If You Stopped Sleeping

23 octobre 2018 - 3/5

Épisode 1 - What If Everyone Cycled to Work?

1 janvier 2019 - 3/5

What if all commuters ditched their cars and replaced them with bicycles?

Épisode 2 - What If We Shrunk Humanity?

3 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Could downsizing ourselves to 5 inches reduce our impact on the biosphere?

Épisode 3 - What If Bacteria Became Antibiotic Resistant?

5 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 4 - What If All the Sea Water Becomes Fresh Water

7 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 5 - What If Money Was Equally Distributed?

9 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Would we be a happier society if all the money in the world was distributed equally to all 7.7 billion people on the planet?

Épisode 6 - What If You Could Swim in Titan's Lakes?

11 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 7 - What If We Covered the Moon With Solar Panels?

12 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 8 - What If We Stopped Doing Science?

15 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Scientific research leads to benefits, but these seem to go hand-in-hand with death and destruction. Should we stop while we're ahead?

Épisode 9 - What If We Could Remember Everything?

17 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Would you want to be able to remember every detail from any day of your life?

Épisode 10 - What If You Ate Uranium?

19 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Could you eat Uranium?

Épisode 11 - What If the Universe Ended Tomorrow?

21 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Our universe is racing toward its destruction, right now. But how exactly will it end?

Épisode 12 - What If We Geo-Engineered Earth?

23 janvier 2019 - 3/5

We only have one Earth. How far should we go in our attempts to save it from ourselves?

Épisode 13 - What If a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth?

25 janvier 2019 - 3/5

The threat is very real.

Épisode 14 - What If We Let Synthetic Life Forms Loose?

29 janvier 2019 - 3/5

Should we intervene with nature to save the world?

Épisode 15 - What If There Was Another Earth in Our Solar System?

31 janvier 2019 - 3/5

What if there was another Earth in the solar system?

Épisode 16 - What If We Had Thermal Vision?

2 février 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 17 - What If Earth Started Spinning Backwards?

4 février 2019 - 3/5

What if the Sun rose in the west and set in the east?

Épisode 18 - What If We Became Cyborgs?

6 février 2019 - 3/5

if you could become a cyborg, what enhancements would you get?

Épisode 19 - What If Earth Orbited Betelgeuse

8 février 2019 - 3/5

Betelgeuse is 900 times larger than our Sun and astronomers think it's about to explode. What if Earth orbited this giant monster of a star?

Épisode 20 - What If You Were Alive 200 Million Years Ago

10 février 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 21 - What If Our Sun Became a Neutron Star?

12 février 2019 - 3/5

What would it take for our Sun to become a neutron star?

Épisode 22 - What If Our Mountains Collapsed?

14 février 2019 - 3/5

What happens when entire mountain ranges disappear?

Épisode 23 - What If We Had Working Warp Drive Technology?

16 février 2019 - 3/5

Where would you travel to if you had a spaceship capable of going into warp drive?

Épisode 24 - What If We Were Born Without Empathy?

18 février 2019 - 3/5

What keeps you and your friends from turning into self-centered psychopaths?

Épisode 25 - What If Earth's Axis Was Tilted by 90 Degrees?

20 février 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 26 - What If There Were Ads in Space?

22 février 2019 - 3/5

Should we put ads in space to fund human exploration of the solar system?

Épisode 27 - What If Earth Stopped Its Orbit Around The Sun?

23 février 2019 - 3/5

What if Earth’s orbit around the Sun suddenly stopped?

Épisode 28 - What If You Could Stop Time?

24 février 2019 - 3/5

What would you do for humanity if you were the only person that could freeze time?

Épisode 29 - What if You Died in Space?

25 février 2019 - 3/5

So far only 3 people have died in outer space but with upcoming civilian space travel and journeys to Mars, odds are that we are going to be seeing a lot more deaths in space.

Épisode 30 - What If Thomas Edison Wasn't Born

26 février 2019 - 3/5

How different would our world look if Thomas Edison never existed?

Épisode 31 - What If We Trashed Earth's Orbit With Space Junk?

27 février 2019 - 3/5

Litter, litter, everywhere.

Épisode 32 - What If We Stopped Vaccinations?

28 février 2019 - 3/5

How bad would things get if everyone stopped vaccinating their kids?

Épisode 33 - What If Dogs Didn't Exist?

1 mars 2019 - 3/5

If there were never any dogs in this world, would we have found another animal that is as loyal and trainable?

Épisode 34 - What If We Didn't Have Free Will?

3 mars 2019

Is free choice real, or is it just an illusion?

Épisode 35 - What If Everyone on Earth Lived in One City?

4 mars 2019

Épisode 36 - What If All Plankton Disappeared?

5 mars 2019

Tiny creature, big impact.

Épisode 37 - What If the Universe Was White Instead of Black?

7 mars 2019

Épisode 38 - What If All Trees Were Cut Down?

9 mars 2019

Could we survive in a world without trees?

Épisode 39 - What If the African Continent Broke Apart?

10 mars 2019

Épisode 40 - What if We Used Nuclear Energy as Our Only Fuel Source?

12 mars 2019

Nuclear energy may be the most efficient and clean energy source we have right now. So why don't we produce more?

Épisode 41 - What If Machines Took Over?

14 mars 2019

The robots are coming, and they want your job.

Épisode 42 - What If All Bees Went Extinct?

16 mars 2019

Industrial agriculture is killing bees. Will drone pollinators and robot bees save us from running out of food?

Épisode 43 - What If a Black Hole Deleted the Universe?

18 mars 2019

Épisode 44 - What If Earth’s Gravity Was Stronger?

20 mars 2019

Life on a planet with stronger gravity is harder than you think. How would you adapt?

Épisode 45 - What Happens If You Wake up During Surgery?

22 mars 2019

In 1 of every 19,000 surgeries involving general anesthesia, a patient may become conscious. What if this happened to you?

Épisode 46 - What If the Gulf Stream Stopped?

24 mars 2019

The Gulf Stream is one of the strongest ocean currents in the world. What if it collapsed tomorrow?

Épisode 47 - What If Birth Control Was Free Everywhere?

26 mars 2019

What if no women on Earth had to pay for the pill?

Épisode 48 - What If You Lived Inside a Hologram?

28 mars 2019

Some physicists believe we're living in a giant hologram.

Épisode 49 - What If All Humans Were Asexual?

2 avril 2019

Would this be the end of the human race?

Épisode 50 - What If We Dumped Our Trash into Volcanoes?

6 avril 2019

Great question. Glad you asked.

Épisode 51 - What If Every Dead Person Came Back to Life?

8 avril 2019

How many people have ever lived on Earth? And what if they all came back to life at once?

Épisode 52 - What If Extinct Animals Could Be Brought Back to Life?

10 avril 2019

Épisode 53 - What If the Speed of Light and Sound Were Switched?

11 avril 2019

Weird stuff is about to happen.

Épisode 54 - What If Earth Was Inside of a Nebula?

13 avril 2019 - 3/5

What would our skies look like if Earth was inside a nebula?

Épisode 55 - What If You Could Make Yourself Invisible?

15 avril 2019 - 3/5

If you could become invisible, what would you do?

Épisode 56 - What If The Neanderthals Had Not Gone Extinct?

17 avril 2019 - 3/5

You might be more Neanderthal than you think.

Épisode 57 - What If We Built A Ring World In Space?

19 avril 2019 - 3/5

Someday, when humankind outgrows planet Earth, we might aim to build a habitat so vast we could never overpopulate it.

Épisode 58 - What If A Mega-Tsunami Hit The United States?

21 avril 2019 - 3/5

Some geologists theorize that a volcano on La Palma might fall into the ocean and send a mega-tsunami across the Atlantic.

Épisode 59 - What If Almost Everyone (Who Can) Worked From Home?

23 avril 2019 - 3/5

Your boss needs to see this.

Épisode 60 - What If Half the Population of Earth Was Wiped Out?

25 avril 2019 - 3/5

What if Thanos’ snap really wiped out half the population of Earth? What would have happened?

Épisode 61 - What If We Terraformed The Sahara Desert?

27 avril 2019 - 3/5

Why don’t we transform the Sahara Desert into a lush rainforest?

Épisode 62 - What If Everyone Fell Asleep At The Same Time?

29 avril 2019 - 3/5

How would our world change if we were all forced into the same sleep schedule?

Épisode 63 - What If We Had To Evacuate Earth?

1 mai 2019 - 3/5

Would you stay or would you go?

Épisode 64 - What If We Lived In Cities Under Water?

3 mai 2019 - 3/5

Why haven’t we built cities underwater yet?

Épisode 65 - What If Aliens Visited Us Tomorrow?

5 mai 2019 - 3/5

They’re here.

Épisode 66 - What Happens If You Don't Shower for a Month?

7 mai 2019 - 3/5

Showering daily is bad for you. But what happens if you don’t shower for an entire month?

Épisode 67 - What If You Could Ski On Mars?

9 mai 2019 - 3/5

What will we do for fun once we live on Mars?

Épisode 68 - What If You Fell Into a Volcano?

11 mai 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 69 - What If the Earth Collided With Another Planet?

13 mai 2019 - 3/5

What exactly would happen if Earth collided with a rogue planet? Here’s a timeline.

Épisode 70 - What If Humans Could Do Photosynthesis?

15 mai 2019 - 3/5

Several animals can already do photosynthesis. Why don't we biohack our bodies to do the same?

Épisode 71 - What If Abortion Was Illegal Worldwide?

17 mai 2019 - 3/5

What if the world followed Alabama's example and banned abortions?

Épisode 72 - What If You Fell Into a Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool?

19 mai 2019 - 2/5

What happens if you fall into one of those pools where they store the highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods?

Épisode 73 - What If the Earth Was Cut in Half?

21 mai 2019 - 2/5

What would happen if Earth was cut in half?

Épisode 74 - What If Mars Orbited The Earth?

23 mai 2019 - 2/5

What if the Moon was replaced with Mars?

Épisode 75 - What If Robots Were Capable Of Emotions?

25 mai 2019 - 2/5

Could you be friends with a robot?

Épisode 76 - What If We Lived Our Lives Backward?

27 mai 2019 - 2/5

Would you prefer to live your life sdrawkcab?

Épisode 77 - What If the World Was a Single Country?

29 mai 2019 - 2/5

Should we have one world government?

Épisode 78 - What If We Could Harness the Energy of a Black Hole?

30 mai 2019 - 2/5

How could we collect the energy of a black hole? We can't just walk up to one with a bucket to fill... or can we?

Épisode 79 - What If We Planted a Trillion Trees?

1 juin 2019 - 2/5

How many trees are too many?

Épisode 80 - What If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn?

3 juin 2019 - 2/5

Épisode 81 - What If Humans Became Cold-Blooded

16 janvier 2019 - 2/5

Épisode 82 - What If There Was A Zombie Apocalypse

3 mai 2019 - 2/5

Épisode 1 - What If Orgasms Didn’t Exist?

5 juin 2019 - 3/5

Would you exist if humanity never had the pleasure of the big O?

Épisode 2 - What If All Stars Exploded at the Same Time?

7 juin 2019 - 3/5

What would happen if all stars exploded at once?

Épisode 3 - What If You Were 5 Meters Tall?

9 juin 2019 - 3/5

Would everyone treat you like a freak if you were 5 meters tall?

Épisode 4 - What If You Had X-Ray Vision?

13 juin 2019 - 3/5

Of all the superpowers, this isn't the one you want to have, trust us.

Épisode 5 - What If There Was No Music?

15 juin 2019 - 3/5

Could you live without music?

Épisode 6 - hat If You Were the First Person on Mars?

18 juin 2019 - 3/5

You're the first person to land on Mars. All of humanity is watching. What do you say as you step on the red planet?

Épisode 7 - What If a Magnetar Entered Our Solar System?

20 juin 2019 - 3/5

The strongest magnet in the Universe enters our Solar System. What would happen?

Épisode 8 - What If Everyone Over the Age of 18 Disappeared?

22 juin 2019 - 3/5

Should we put the kids in charge?

Épisode 9 - What If We Created a Superintelligence?

24 juin 2019 - 3/5

What would happen if we created something far smarter than humans?

Épisode 10 - What If Earth’s Atmosphere Was Pure Oxygen?

26 juin 2019 - 3/5

We require oxygen to live. So would an atmosphere composed of 100% oxygen be good thing?

Épisode 11 - What If You Were the Last Person on Earth?

27 juin 2019

How to survive as the last human on Earth in 7 steps.

Épisode 12 - What If Earth Was Near the Center of the Milky Way?

28 juin 2019

What's at the center of the Milky Way galaxy and what would be different if Earth was positioned there?

Épisode 13 - What If You Fell Into a Pool of Liquid Nitrogen?

30 juin 2019

How dangerous is liquid nitrogen and what happens if you jumped into a pool filled with the liquefied gas?

Épisode 14 - What If You Lived During the Middle Ages?

4 juillet 2019

At least they didn’t believe the world was flat.

Épisode 15 - What If You Fell Into Quicksand?

6 juillet 2019

The more you move, the more you get sucked into it.

Épisode 16 - What If We Had Flying Cars?

8 juillet 2019

It's 2019, where are all the flying cars?

Épisode 17 - What If We Moved Earth?

10 juillet 2019

What will we do when the Sun turns into a red giant?

Épisode 18 - What If We Had Working Quantum Computers Today?

12 juillet 2019

What if the next computing revolution already happened?

Épisode 19 - What If All Houses Were Covered With Solar Panels?

15 juillet 2019

Wouldn't it be a good idea to cover every house with solar panels?

Épisode 20 - What If We Lived in a Globular Cluster?

17 juillet 2019

What would life be like inside such a dense clump of stars?

Épisode 21 - What If One Million People Actually Stormed Area 51?

18 juillet 2019

You asked for it. #area51

Épisode 22 - What If a Gamma-Ray Burst Hits Earth?

20 juillet 2019

Gamma ray bursts are the most energetic events in the Universe. What if one hit earth?

Épisode 23 - What If You Fell Into a Pool Filled Snake Venom?

22 juillet 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 24 - What If We Sent Our Trash Into the Sun?

24 juillet 2019 - 3/5

Is this the solution to stop humans from trashing the planet?

Épisode 25 - What If You Had a Cosmic Twin?

26 juillet 2019 - 3/5

If there were many identical copies of you out there in the universe, would you want to meet them?

Épisode 26 - What If You Ate Mold?

28 juillet 2019 - 3/5

Have you ever eaten moldy stuff by accident?

Épisode 27 - What If We Lived in a Galactic Zoo?

30 juillet 2019 - 3/5

What if aliens are simply watching us without revealing themselves, to avoid triggering pandemonium on Earth?

Épisode 28 - What If You Fell Into a Pool Full of Sharks?

1 août 2019 - 3/5

Please don't do this. #sharkweek

Épisode 29 - What If We Created a Second Artificial Moon?

3 août 2019 - 3/5

China plans to launch an artificial moon to light up the night skies and save electricity. What would be the consequences?

Épisode 30 - What If You Fell out of an Airplane at 30,000 Feet?

5 août 2019 - 3/5

You're 9 km (~6 miles) up in the sky. You're alone. You're falling. Could you survive?

Épisode 31 - What If a Spoonful of Neutron Star Appeared on Earth?

7 août 2019 - 3/5

Have a spoonful of neutron star.

Épisode 32 - What If Animals Were As Smart As Us?

9 août 2019 - 3/5

Would we cooperate or fight?

Épisode 33 - What If We Settled on the Moon?

11 août 2019 - 3/5

NASA wants to send astronauts back to the Moon by 2024. What if we stayed and settled on the Moon this time?

Épisode 34 - What If There Was No Salt in the World?

13 août 2019 - 3/5

Could you live without salt for a week?

Épisode 35 - What If People With Down Syndrome Ruled the World?

15 août 2019 - 3/5

More hugs, affection, and caring for others.

Épisode 36 - What If You Went Surfing on a Tsunami?

17 août 2019 - 3/5

What would happen if you tried to surf a tsunami wave?

Épisode 37 - What If We Built Cloud Cities on Venus?

19 août 2019 - 3/5

Should we be going to Venus instead of Mars?

Épisode 38 - What If You Could Upload Your Brain?

21 août 2019 - 3/5

Under what conditions would you consider uploading your brain?

Épisode 39 - What If We Nuked Mars?

23 août 2019 - 3/5

Elon Musk wants to nuke Mars. What would happen?

Épisode 40 - What If We Lost The Amazon Rainforest?

26 août 2019 - 3/5

What would happen if we completely lost the Amazon rainforest to the fires? #AmazonFires

Épisode 41 - What If We Nuked a Hurricane?

28 août 2019 - 3/5

Dear Mr President...

Épisode 42 - What If We Extinguished the Sun?

30 août 2019 - 3/5

Could we extinguish the sun when it becomes red giant in about 5.4 billion years from now?

Épisode 43 - What If You Could Work Anywhere in the World?

1 septembre 2019 - 3/5

Where would you work?

Épisode 44 - What If We Could Open a Portal to a Parallel Universe?

3 septembre 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 45 - What If You Could Record Your Dreams?

5 septembre 2019 - 3/5

If you could record your dreams, would you?

Épisode 46 - What If Pangea Never Broke Apart?

7 septembre 2019 - 3/5

Where on Earth would you be if the Pangea supercontinent never broke appart?

Épisode 47 - What If You Didn’t Feel Pain?

9 septembre 2019 - 3/5

Would a world without pain truly be painless?

Épisode 48 - What If Telekinesis Was Real?

11 septembre 2019 - 3/5

What would you do if you could move objects with your mind?

Épisode 49 - What If You Skydived Into a Tornado?

13 septembre 2019 - 3/5

Nobody has ever done this. For obvious reasons.

Épisode 50 - What If the Earth Was One Living Organism?

15 septembre 2019 - 3/5

Could we all be part of one giant superorganism?

Épisode 51 - What If the World Was Ruled by Only One Man?

17 septembre 2019 - 3/5

If the world was ruled by one man or woman, who should it be?

Épisode 52 - What If You Met a Time Traveler?

19 septembre 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 53 - What If You Could Melt Metal With Your Hands?

21 septembre 2019 - 3/5

What would you melt?

Épisode 54 - What If We Could Refreeze the Arctic?

23 septembre 2019 - 3/5

Could refreezing the Arctic reverse the effects of global climate change?

Épisode 55 - What If We Poured a Pool of Liquid Nitrogen Into a Volcano?

25 septembre 2019 - 3/5

What happens when you mix one of the coldest and hottest substances on Earth on a large scale?

Épisode 56 - What If You Were the Only Man on Earth?

27 septembre 2019 - 3/5

There are 3.8 billion women on Earth. There were 3.9 billion men. But now, it's just you..

Épisode 57 - What If You Jumped Into a Pool Full of Stomach Acid?

29 septembre 2019 - 3/5

How strong is stomach acid really?

Épisode 58 - What If We Dug Tunnels Between Continents?

1 octobre 2019 - 3/5

Why don’t we build tunnels between continents?

Épisode 59 - What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?

4 octobre 2019 - 3/5

We might have only 760 years left before we go extinct. A timeline to the end of humanity.

Épisode 60 - What If Everybody Planted a Tree on Their Birthday?

6 octobre 2019 - 3/5

Could we save the planet if we all planted a tree every year on our birthday?

Épisode 61 - What If We Find a Cure for Cancer?

9 octobre 2019 - 3/5

Will we ever find a cure for cancer?

Épisode 62 - What If It Rained Acid?

17 septembre 2019 - 3/5

Rain, rain, go away...

Épisode 63 - What If Alien Life Was Silicon-Based?

19 septembre 2019 - 3/5

Is silicon-based life possible?

Épisode 64 - What If There Was No Friction for 1 Minute?

21 octobre 2019 - 3/5

Rubbing things together creates, not destroys...

Épisode 65 - What If Smartphones Were Invented in the 60s?

25 octobre 2019 - 3/5

What would your phone look like if smartphones were invented in the '60s?

Épisode 66 - What If Another Sun Entered Our Solar System?

27 octobre 2019 - 3/5

What are the chances for another sun to pass through our Solar System? And what would happen to the planets?

Épisode 67 - What If We Created Hybrid Human-Animals?

29 octobre 2019 - 3/5

Should we create human-animal hybrids to grow tissues and organs for people in need of organ transplants?

Épisode 68 - What If Ghosts Were Real?

31 octobre 2019 - 3/5

Trick or treat...

Épisode 69 - What If All Humans Spoke The Same Language?

2 novembre 2019 - 3/5

Could one universal language for all humans solve the problems on this planet?

Épisode 70 - What If We Found Alien Life on Enceladus?

4 novembre 2019 - 3/5

NASA revealed last month that the ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus contains the building blocks of life. What are the chances that we will find aliens?

Épisode 71 - What If You Could Build the Death Star?

6 novembre 2019 - 3/5

What would it take to make the Death Star a real-life possibility?

Épisode 72 - What If You Jumped Into a Pool Filled With Human Saliva?

8 novembre 2019 - 3/5

How much saliva do you produce in your life?

Épisode 73 - What If the Atmosphere Was 10% Deep Voice Gas?

10 novembre 2019 - 3/5

Humanity goes Darth Vader.

Épisode 74 - What If You Owned a Time Machine?

12 novembre 2019 - 3/5

Which moment in history or the future would you visit first?

Épisode 75 - What If We Dumped Our Trash in the Bermuda Triangle?

14 novembre 2019 - 3/5

Because large objects seem to disappear mysteriously, why don't we dump our trash in the Bermuda Triangle?

Épisode 76 - What If Megalodon Sharks Never Went Extinct?

16 novembre 2019 - 3/5

Could megalodon sharks still live in our oceans?

Épisode 77 - What If We No Longer Needed Sleep?

18 novembre 2019 - 3/5

Eternal insomnia...

Épisode 78 - What If Earth Was the Only Planet in the Solar System?

20 novembre 2019 - 3/5

Sorry, Elon Musk. Mars is not there anymore.

Épisode 79 - What If We Could Upload Fake Memories Into the Brain?

22 novembre 2019 - 3/5

How much do you trust your memory?

Épisode 80 - What Happens If You Never Take Your Contacts Out?

24 novembre 2019 - 3/5

Lazy with your contact lenses?

Épisode 81 - What If There Was No Sugar in the World?

26 novembre 2019 - 3/5

Would you live completely sugar-free?

Épisode 82 - What If All Cars Were Indestructible?

27 novembre 2019 - 3/5

What if every car was a #Cybertruck?

Épisode 83 - What If Spiders Were the Size of Humans?

28 novembre 2019 - 3/5

Don't watch this if you're afraid of spiders.

Épisode 84 - What If You Were Made of Dark Matter?

30 novembre 2019 - 3/5

How long would you last as dark matter?

Épisode 85 - What If Ice Was Hot Instead of Cold?

2 décembre 2019 - 3/5

What would the Arctic look like if all the ice was hot?

Épisode 86 - What If We Created No Waste?

5 décembre 2019 - 3/5

What would happen if everyone became zero waste?

Épisode 87 - What If You Never Left Your Bed?

6 décembre 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 88 - What If Earth Was Shaped Like a Donut?

7 décembre 2019 - 3/5

According to the laws of physics, a donut world could actually exist.

Épisode 89 - Face Reveal

26 décembre 2019 - 3/5

Épisode 1 - What If We Turned Plastic Into Fuel?

9 décembre 2019 - 4/5

Is this the perfect solution to our plastic problem?

Épisode 2 - What If Wifi Was Visible?

11 décembre 2019 - 4/5

Look out for wifi radiation...

Épisode 3 - What If You Had to Find Baby Yoda?

13 décembre 2019 - 4/5

May the force be with you...even if it's small and adorable

Épisode 4 - What If We Built a Canal Between U.S. and Mexico?

15 octobre 2019 - 4/5

Why would we even consider a canal between U.S. and Mexico?

Épisode 5 - What If You Fell Into the Deepest Hole on Earth?

17 décembre 2019 - 4/5

How long would you be falling for?

Épisode 6 - What Happens If You Don’t Leave the Bathtub for a Week?

19 décembre 2019 - 4/5

What would happen to your body after a week in soap and water?

Épisode 7 - What If Santa Claus Actually Exists?

21 décembre 2019 - 4/5

Naughty or nice?

Épisode 8 - What If You Were Swallowed by an Anaconda?

22 décembre 2019 - 4/5

What's it like to be swallowed by an anaconda?

Épisode 9 - What If the Sun Exploded Tomorrow?

24 décembre 2019 - 4/5

Could the Sun suddenly explode? What would happen?

Épisode 10 - What Happens If You Vape for 24 Hours Straight?

26 décembre 2019 - 4/5

What does vaping do to your body?

Épisode 11 - What If You Were Swallowed by a Whale?

27 décembre 2019 - 4/5

This is our most popular episode of 2019.

Épisode 12 - What If You Traveled to a Black Hole?

28 décembre 2019 - 4/5

How close could you approach a black hole without getting sucked into it?

Épisode 13 - What If You Knew the Date and Time You Will Die?

30 décembre 2019 - 4/5

How would your life change if you knew the date and time you die?

Épisode 14 - What If the Universe Is a Loop?

31 décembre 2019 - 4/5

The year 2019 might happen again some time in the far future. #nojoke

Épisode 15 - What If Everyone Stopped Drinking Coffee?

2 janvier 2020 - 4/5

Would you be down to live in the world without coffee?

Épisode 16 - What If Our Bodies Kept Evolving?

3 janvier 2020 - 4/5

From chimpanzees to us to...

Épisode 17 - What If You Lived on a Tiny Planet?

5 janvier 2020 - 4/5

Could the story of the Little Prince turn into reality?

Épisode 18 - What If We Could Grow Babies in Artificial Wombs?

7 janvier 2020 - 4/5

What if you were grown instead of born?

Épisode 19 - What If World War III Happened Tomorrow?

8 janvier 2020 - 4/5

The previous world wars happened within a few decades. Could World War III happen soon?

Épisode 20 - What If a Quasar Entered Our Solar System?

9 janvier 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if a supermassive luminous black hole appeared in our Solar System?

Épisode 21 - What If We Generated Electricity With Our Bodies?

11 janvier 2020 - 4/5

Why don't we generate electricity when working out?

Épisode 22 - What If We Could Create Anti-Gravity?

13 janvier 2020 - 4/5

How would we utilize anti-gravity?

Épisode 23 - What If You Die?

15 janvier 2020 - 4/5

What would happen to your body and mind?

Épisode 24 - What If Earth Was As Big As the Sun?

17 janvier 2020 - 4/5

Welcome to giant Earth!

Épisode 25 - What If the Pterodactyl Was Still Alive?

19 janvier 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if these giraffe-sized flying reptiles were still alive?

Épisode 26 - What If Two Black Holes Collided?

22 janvier 2020 - 4/5

Would there be a supermassive explosion?

Épisode 27 - What If a Flash Wiped Out Everyones Memories?

24 janvier 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if somebody used a neutrolyzer on everyone?

Épisode 28 - What If the Kraken Was Real?

26 janvier 2020 - 4/5

In the ocean many things are hidden...

Épisode 29 - What If We Set Aside Half the Planet for Wildlife?

27 janvier 2020 - 4/5

How would we feel sharing only 50% of the planet?

Épisode 30 - What If the Moon Never Formed?

29 janvier 2020 - 4/5

What would our world look like if Theia hadn't smashed into us 4.5 billion years ago?

Épisode 31 - What Happens If You Put Your Head Into a Particle Accelerator?

31 janvier 2020 - 4/5

Could you survive its effects?

Épisode 32 - What If We Had a Worldwide Superbug Pandemic?

1 février 2020 - 4/5

Could we be experiencing a global pandemic soon?

Épisode 33 - What If Betelgeuse Exploded Right Now?

2 février 2020 - 4/5

Betelgeuse, one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye, is dimming substantially. Will it explode anytime soon?

Épisode 34 - What If We Became Enslaved by Aliens?

3 février 2020 - 4/5

What would our new alien masters do with us?

Épisode 35 - What If You Were Swallowed by a Venus Flytrap?

5 février 2020 - 4/5

What would it feel like being swallowed by a venus flytrap?

Épisode 36 - What If a Magnetar Collided With a Black Hole?

7 février 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if a magnetar collided with a black hole?

Épisode 37 - What If the Earth’s Crust Suddenly Opened Up?

8 février 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if the Earth's crust was opening up?

Épisode 38 - What If Our Universe Collided With Another One?

9 février 2020 - 4/5

What would happen to the laws of physics if our Universe collided with another one?

Épisode 39 - What If We Built Vertical Farms?

10 février 2020 - 4/5

What impact would vertical farms have on our food supply?

Épisode 40 - What If You Dropped a Steak From Orbit?

12 février 2020 - 4/5

Would the steak get fried?

Épisode 41 - What If You Fell Into Niagara Falls?

14 février 2020 - 4/5

Would you survive the fall into Niagara Falls?

Épisode 42 - What If We Knew the Time the Earth Will Die?

15 février 2020 - 4/5

How much time do you think we have to live on our home planet?

Épisode 43 - What If Jupiter Never Existed?

17 février 2020 - 2/5

Would the Earth even exist without Jupiter?

Épisode 44 - What If Algae Took Over the Oceans?

18 février 2020 - 2/5

How could our oceans become green and slimy?

Épisode 45 - What If We Discover Life After Death?

19 février 2020 - 2/5

How would our world change if we discovered life after death?

Épisode 46 - What If We Burn All the Oil?

21 février 2020 - 2/5

What would be at stake for our planet?

Épisode 47 - What If Earth Orbited UY Scuti?

22 février 2020 - 2/5

What if we orbited the biggest star known to us?

Épisode 48 - What If Bigfoot Actually Exists?

23 février 2020 - 2/5

What would happen if bigfoot was real?

Épisode 49 - What If You Tried Flying Tied to Helium Balloons?

25 février 2020 - 2/5

How high would you fly tied to helium balloons?

Épisode 50 - What If Antarctica’s Dormant Volcanoes Woke Up?

27 février 2020 - 2/5

How could there be lava on the surface of Antarctica?

Épisode 51 - What If You Could Shrink to the Size of an Atom?

28 février 2020 - 2/5

What would happen to your body if you were the size of an atom?

Épisode 52 - What If We Could Build an Alderson Disk?

29 février 2020 - 2/5

What if we built a space megastructure bigger that the Sun?

Épisode 53 - What If You Fell Into a Piranha Pool?

1 mars 2020 - 2/5

Could you survive a swim with piranhas?

Épisode 55 - What If Air Pollution Was Visible?

3 mars 2020 - 2/5

What if you could see every particle of air pollution?

Épisode 56 - What If We Could Build Bridges Between Continents?

5 mars 2020 - 2/5

What if you could drive from the US to Spain?

Épisode 57 - What If the Yellowstone Volcano Erupted Tomorrow?

6 mars 2020 - 2/5

How would the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano affect the world?

Épisode 58 - What If You Were the Only Woman on Earth?

8 mars 2020 - 2/5

Épisode 59 - What If All Mosquitoes Disappeared?

9 mars 2020 - 2/5

Would we be better off without mosquitoes?

Épisode 60 - What If You Got the Coronavirus?

10 mars 2020 - 2/5

What would happen to your body if you were infected with COVID-19?

Épisode 61 - What If We Drained the Mediterranean?

10 mars 2020 - 2/5

What if we blocked off the Mediterranean from the Atlantic ocean?

Épisode 62 - What If We Nuked an Active Volcano?

11 mars 2020 - 2/5

There is one place we haven't imagined nuking yet...

Épisode 63 - What If You Controlled the Internet?

12 mars 2020 - 2/5

If I controlled the internet I would ___________.

Épisode 64 - What If We Become a Type 1 Civilization?

13 mars 2020 - 2/5

What would our world be like if we could harness all the energy on Earth?

Épisode 65 - What If You Could Shapeshift?

14 mars 2020 - 2/5

What would be the first thing you turn into if you could shapeshift?

Épisode 66 - What If We Relocated Humanity to Proxima B?

15 mars 2020 - 2/5

Would you want to be one of the first people to colonize Proxima B?

Épisode 67 - What If You Held in Your Pee for a Week?

16 mars 2020 - 2/5

How long would you last without peeing?

Épisode 68 - What If There Were No Cables?

17 mars 2020 - 2/5

The world goes fully wireless...

Épisode 69 - What If You Ate the Spiciest Pepper in the World?

18 mars 2020 - 2/5

What would happen to your body after eating 1000 of the world's spiciest peppers?

Épisode 70 - What If You Drained the World's Largest Atoll?

19 mars 2020 - 2/5

What if you decided to turn the largest atoll in the world into a sinkhole?

Épisode 71 - What If We Broadcast Our Existence Into Outer Space?

20 mars 2020 - 2/5

What if aliens heard us broadcasting our existence?

Épisode 72 - What If Mosquitoes Were the Size of Humans?

21 mars 2020 - 2/5

What would happen if mosquitoes became as big as humans?

Épisode 73 - What If the U.S. Were Under Lockdown?

22 mars 2020 - 2/5

How would a complete lockdown affect the U.S. and the whole world?

Épisode 74 - What If Earth Released All Its Methane?

23 mars 2020 - 2/5

How much methane does Earth have?

Épisode 75 - What If We Ran Out of Toilet Paper?

24 mars 2020 - 2/5

Épisode 76 - What Happens in Your Body If You Caught the Coronavirus?

25 mars 2020 - 2/5

How would your body react to the coronavirus?

Épisode 77 - What If We Moved the Solar System?

26 mars 2020 - 2/5

Why would we move our Solar System?

Épisode 78 - What If You Didn't Wash Your Hands for a Year?

27 mars 2020 - 2/5

Don't try this at home.

Épisode 79 - What If a Volcano Erupted Into Space?

28 mars 2020 - 2/5

What would happen if we had volcanoes that could erupt into space?

Épisode 80 - What If We Treated Climate Change Like a Pandemic?

29 mars 2020 - 2/5

What would happen if we cared about the climate change as much as we care about the pandemic?

Épisode 81 - What If You Stopped Going Outside?

30 mars 2020 - 2/5

What is happening to all of us in self-isolation?

Épisode 82 - What If You Fell from an Airplane Into Fresh Snow?

31 mars 2020 - 2/5

Somebody's done it before...

Épisode 83 - What If We Stopped Shaking Hands?

1 avril 2020 - 2/5

What greeting should we use instead of shaking hands?

Épisode 1 - What If We Discovered Alien AI?

2 avril 2020

What would happen we found non-organic alien life?

Épisode 2 - What If Everyone Stopped Working?

3 avril 2020

What would happen if all 8 billion of us stopped working?

Épisode 3 - What If You Fell Into a Geyser?

4 avril 2020

How would your body react if you fell into a geyser?

Épisode 4 - What If All Grocery Stores Closed?

5 avril 2020

How would you get your food without grocery stores?

Épisode 5 - What If the Great Attractor Swallowed Our Galaxy?

6 avril 2020

What happens when the Great Attractor pulls 100,000 galaxies, including us?

Épisode 6 - What If You Never Coughed?

7 avril 2020

What if you stopped coughing forever?

Épisode 7 - What If There Was No More Sand?

8 avril 2020

Are we running out of sand?

Épisode 8 - What If Everyone Wore Medical Face Masks?

9 avril 2020

What would happen if we all wore medical masks?

Épisode 9 - What If You Fell Into a Pool of Electric Eels?

10 avril 2020

Electric eels can give you a shock with up to 860 volts of current. Would you survive falling into a pool filled with these electric fish?

Épisode 10 - What If We Detected a Signal from Outer Space?

11 avril 2020

In February this year, scientists detected mysterious radio signals from outer space. What if it's coming from another civilization?

Épisode 11 - What If Social-Distancing Became Law?

12 avril 2020

What if you were punished every time you didn't follow social-disctancing?

Épisode 12 - What If We Lost Gravity for 5 Seconds?

13 avril 2020

What would happen if we didn't have gravity for 5 seconds?

Épisode 13 - What If You Jumped Into a Pool of Hand Sanitizer?

14 avril 2020

Fancy a swim in hand sanitizer?

Épisode 14 - What If Mosasaurus Were Still Alive?

15 avril 2020

Épisode 15 - What If Earth Was Shaped Like an American Football?

16 avril 2020

What if our planet had a shape of an american football?

Épisode 16 - What If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef?

17 avril 2020

Would you trade beef for beans?

Épisode 17 - What If We Could Kill the Coronavirus with UVC lights?

18 avril 2020

Why don’t we use UVC light to disinfect our cities from the coronavirus?

Épisode 18 - What If All Bats Disappeared?

19 avril 2020

Would killing all bats prevent future diseases and pandemics?

Épisode 19 - What If Lightning Storms Never Stopped?

20 avril 2020

Épisode 20 - What If a Mega-Corporation Ran Your City?

21 avril 2020

What would happen if a corporation was in charge of your city?

Épisode 21 - What If We Could Hear the Sun?

22 avril 2020

Do you know how loud the Sun is?

Épisode 22 - What If Ancient Life Escaped Earth?

22 avril 2020

What if all ancient life moved from Earth?

Épisode 23 - What If Everyone Turned Off Their Lights?

23 avril 2020

Should we all turn off our lights tonight? #EarthDay

Épisode 24 - What If All Oceans Turned Into Acid?

23 avril 2020

What would happen if all our oceans turned into acid?

Épisode 25 - What If Mount Everest Were an Active Volcano?

24 avril 2020

What would happen if the highest mountain in the world were a volcano?

Épisode 26 - What If Antarctica Were a Rainforest?

25 avril 2020

Would this work out well for us?

Épisode 27 - What If You Got Sucked Into a Tornado?

26 avril 2020

Could you get vacuumed up by a tornado?

Épisode 28 - What If Everyone Went Blind?

27 avril 2020

Nobody can see anything...

Épisode 29 - What If the Coronavirus Mutated?

28 avril 2020

What would happen if we had a new wave of a mutated coronavirus?

Épisode 30 - What If All Nuclear Reactors Exploded at Once?

29 avril 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if nuclear reactors all over the planet exploded at once?

Épisode 31 - What If You Did a Wireless Bungee Jump with Magnets?

30 avril 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if you bungee jumped with a magnet?

Épisode 32 - What If We Never Aged?

1 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if we all stayed young forever?

Épisode 33 - What If Giant Mushrooms Grew on Earth?

3 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if giant mushrooms were all around us?

Épisode 34 - What If We Built a Sun Shield in Space?

4 mai 2020 - 4/5

Could this end up being a bad thing for Earth?

Épisode 35 - What If Hackers Hijacked Every Satellite?

5 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if every satellite was hacked?

Épisode 36 - What If You Lived in the Devonian Period?

6 mai 2020 - 4/5

How dangerous would it be to live in the Devonian era?

Épisode 37 - What If You Jumped Into Saturn's Rings?

7 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would it feel like to be on Saturn's rings?

Épisode 38 - What If a Gravitational Wave Hit Earth?

8 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if a gravitational wave hit Earth?

Épisode 39 - What If You Were Attacked by Murder Hornets?

9 mai 2020 - 4/5

The Asian giant hornet is invading North America. What if it attacked you?

Épisode 40 - What Happens If You Were Hospitalized With COVID-19?

9 mai 2020 - 4/5

What happens in hospital if you were admitted with severe COVID-19 symptoms?

Épisode 41 - What If We Dug a Hole Through the Moon?

11 mai 2020 - 4/5

We explored the possibility of digging a hole through Earth. What about a hole through the Moon?

Épisode 42 - What If Mammoths Never Went Extinct?

12 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if mammoths still roamed parts of Earth?

Épisode 43 - What If We Built Vacuum Airships?

13 mai 2020 - 4/5

What if we could fly on vacuum airships?

Épisode 44 - What If the Big Rip Happened Tomorrow?

14 mai 2020 - 4/5

Épisode 45 - What If There Were an Underground City Below Denver Airport?

15 mai 2020 - 4/5

What if one of the biggest conspiracies in the USA is true?

Épisode 46 - What If You Were the Last Human and Trapped in Space?

16 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would you do alone in the Universe?

Épisode 47 - What If You Went to the Toilet Only Once a Year?

17 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would you do for 24 hours sitting on a toilet?

Épisode 48 - What If You Could Walk Through Walls?

18 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would you do with this power?

Épisode 49 - What If We Flooded the Death Valley?

19 mai 2020 - 4/5

Would it help fight climate change?

Épisode 50 - What If You Were Infected by the Cordyceps Fungus?

20 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if you were infected with a real-life zombie fungus?

Épisode 51 - What If Social Media Stopped Working?

21 mai 2020 - 4/5

How would your life change without social media?

Épisode 52 - What If It Takes Two Years for a COVID-19 Vaccine?

22 mai 2020 - 4/5

How long do we have to wait for a vaccine?

Épisode 53 - What If You Slept Upside Down?

23 mai 2020 - 4/5

What if we slept like bats?

Épisode 54 - What If We Could Build a Matrioshka Brain?

24 mai 2020 - 4/5

What if we could build a massive magestructure around our Solar System?

Épisode 55 - What If You Only Lived for 24 Hours?

25 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if instead of 70 years you only had 24 hours to live?

Épisode 56 - What If There Were No Wind?

26 mai 2020 - 4/5

Do you think our planet could exist without wind?

Épisode 57 - What If You Were Bitten by One Million Ticks?

26 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would happen to you if you were bitten by a million ticks?

Épisode 58 - What If It Rained Diamonds?

28 mai 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if it rained diamonds?

Épisode 59 - What If Two Hurricanes Collided?

29 mai 2020 - 4/5

Would that be the biggest natural disaster?

Épisode 60 - What If Planet Nine Exists?

30 mai 2020 - 4/5

And what if we tried to visit it?

Épisode 61 - What If We Powered the Planet With Lightning?

31 mai 2020 - 4/5

Could we use lightnings to power our world?

Épisode 62 - What If Earth Were Sucked Into Strange Matter?

1 juin 2020 - 4/5

Could we get sucked into strange matter?

Épisode 63 - What If You Were Attacked by a Swarm of Cicadas?

2 juin 2020 - 4/5

What if you were bombarded by a plague of some of the noisiest insects on Earth?

Épisode 64 - What If Spinosaurs Were Still Swimming Today?

5 juin 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if these giant crocodiles were still alive?

Épisode 65 - What If Halley's Comet Crashed Into the Moon?

7 juin 2020 - 4/5

Épisode 66 - What If Every Home Had a 3D Printer?

8 juin 2020 - 4/5

What if all of us could 3D print?

Épisode 67 - What If Your Dreams Could Be Hacked?

9 juin 2020 - 4/5

What could the dream-hackers do?

Épisode 68 - What If We Harvested the Energy of the Oceans?

11 juin 2020 - 4/5

The forces of the oceans can be enormous. So, why don't we capture their power to produce electricity?

Épisode 69 - What If We Harnessed Zero-Point Energy?

12 juin 2020 - 4/5

What if you could collect energy out of thin air?

Épisode 70 - What If Humans Laid Eggs?

13 juin 2020 - 4/5

In theory, could humans lay eggs?

Épisode 71 - What If the Universe Isn't Uniform?

14 juin 2020 - 4/5

Could the laws of physics be different in other parts on the Universe?

Épisode 72 - What If You Fell Into a Pool of Stingrays?

15 juin 2020 - 4/5

Would you a take a dip in a pool full of stingrays?

Épisode 73 - What If We Had a Secret Weapon Against Cancer?

16 juin 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if we had a secret weapon against cancer?

Épisode 74 - What If Earth's Core Were a Geo-Reactor?

17 juin 2020 - 4/5

Could Earth's core expand anytime soon?

Épisode 75 - What If the Megalodon Shark Fought the Mosasaurus?

19 juin 2020 - 4/5

Who would win: the Megalodon or the Mosasaurus?

Épisode 76 - What If We Built Cities on the Moon?

20 juin 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if we had cities on the Moon?

Épisode 77 - What If There Were a Permanent Solar Eclipse?

21 juin 2020 - 4/5

Tomorrow, June 21 is the day of the Solar Eclipse. What would happen if it stayed forever?

Épisode 78 - What If Godzilla Were Real?

22 juin 2020 - 4/5

Could Godzilla be real?

Épisode 79 - What If Every Satellite Fell to Earth?

23 juin 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if thousands of satellites suddenly fell to Earth?

Épisode 80 - What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

25 juin 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if Jupiter swallowed us?

Épisode 81 - What If Everyone Froze for 1,000 Years?

26 juin 2020 - 4/5

What if everyone could freeze for 1000 years and wake up in the future?

Épisode 82 - What If Oceans Were Liquid Mercury?

27 juin 2020 - 4/5

What would happen if all oceans turned into liquid mercury?

Épisode 83 - What If Your Brain Were Twice the Size?

28 juin 2020 - 4/5

Would you actually be smarter if you had a bigger brain?

Épisode 84 - What If a Massive Locust Swarm Attacked Your City?

29 juin 2020 - 4/5

What would happen to you in a cloud of locusts?

Épisode 85 - What If Everyone Ate Artificial Meat?

30 juin 2020 - 4/5

Could we all transition to eating artificial meat?

Épisode 86 - What If You Jumped Into Lake Natron?

1 juillet 2020 - 4/5

Is this the deadliest lake on Earth?

Épisode 87 - What If Everyone Stopped Cutting Their Hair

30 juin 2020 - 4/5

Épisode 1 - What If a White Hole and Black Hole Collided?

3 juillet 2020 - 5/5

Scientists just discovered a black hole that devours the equivalent of one Sun per day. Could it devour a white hole?

Épisode 2 - What If You Caught the Swine Flu?

4 juillet 2020 - 5/5

Is there another swine flu pandemic on the rise?

Épisode 3 - What If We Built an O'Neill Cylinder?

5 juillet 2020 - 5/5

What would it take to build this state-of-the-art space habitat?

Épisode 4 - What If Seeds Could Grow in Your Stomach?

6 juillet 2020 - 5/5

Could seeds germinate in your stomach?

Épisode 5 - What If We Caught an Interstellar Visitor?

8 juillet 2020 - 5/5

What is that sausage-looking object passing by us in space?

Épisode 6 - What If We Killed All Spiders?

9 juillet 2020 - 5/5

Could humanity survive without spiders?

Épisode 7 - What If We Built a Stanford Torus?

11 juillet 2020 - 5/5

Is this the most elaborate space megastructure you have ever seen?

Épisode 8 - What If the Sun Dimmed Down?

12 juillet 2020 - 5/5

What would happen if the Sun was losing its powerful shine?

Épisode 9 - What If a Cockroach Crawled Into Your Brain?

13 juillet 2020 - 5/5

Would a cockroach crawling in your head hurt?

Épisode 10 - What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

15 juillet 2020 - 5/5

What if we were about to have the 9th planet?

Épisode 11 - What If Mosquitoes Could Spread Vaccines?

18 juillet 2020 - 5/5

Épisode 12 - What If the Giganotosaurus Battled the Troodon?

19 juillet 2020

Who would win in a battle between these monstrous ancient creatures?

Épisode 13 - What If Humans Were Bioluminescent?

20 juillet 2020

How would it change the course of our evolution?

Épisode 14 - What If There Were No Police?

20 juillet 2020

Could a world without police result in less crime?

Épisode 15 - What If a Black Hole Ate the Sun?

22 juillet 2020

What are our chances of survival if a black hole swallowed our Sun?

Épisode 16 - What If You Rode Your Bike at the Speed of Light?

24 juillet 2020

What would you see while you're riding at the speed of light?

Épisode 17 - What If You Lived in Ancient Egypt?

25 juillet 2020

Would you be a Pharaoh or building pyramids?

Épisode 18 - What If a Spider Crawled Into Your Body?

26 juillet 2020

How would you feel if a spider entered your body?

Épisode 19 - What If We Built a Tower to Outer Space?

27 juillet 2020

Could we build a tower that reaches outer space?

Épisode 20 - What If You Held in All Your Sneezes?

28 juillet 2020

Could you stop sneezing forever?

Épisode 21 - What If Everyone Farted at the Same Time?

29 juillet 2020

If everyone farted at the same time, what would lighting a match do?

Épisode 22 - What If a Quasi-Star Entered Our Solar System?

31 juillet 2020

How would Earth be affected by a quasi-star?

Épisode 23 - What If Giant Sloths Didn't Go Extinct?

1 août 2020 - 3/5

What would happen if giant sloths still existed?

Épisode 24 - What If We Turned the Moon Into a Giant Farm?

2 août 2020 - 3/5

What technology would we need to farm the Moon?

Épisode 25 - What If Aliens Are Future Versions of Humans?

3 août 2020 - 3/5

Are future humans coming back in time to abduct us?

Épisode 26 - What If We Could Look Inside Our Bodies?

5 août 2020 - 3/5

What would you see if you could look inside your body?

Épisode 27 - What If the Universe Split Apart?

6 août 2020 - 3/5

What if your reality isn't the only reality?

Épisode 28 - What If Trees Could Speak?

7 août 2020 - 3/5

Can trees and plants communicate with each other?

Épisode 29 - What If a Giant Sea Scorpion Fought a Killer Whale?

8 août 2020 - 3/5

How would a giant sea scorpion compare to a killer whale?

Épisode 30 - What If We Nuked a Hurricane?

8 août 2020 - 3/5

Could a bomb stop a hurricane?

Épisode 31 - What If a Black Hole Opened at CERN?

9 août 2020 - 3/5

How long would it take to destroy the entire planet?

Épisode 32 - What If We Paved Our Roads With Solar Panels?

10 août 2020 - 3/5

Could we power the whole world with solar panel covered roads?

Épisode 33 - What If We Lived on a Super Earth?

11 août 2020 - 3/5

What would be different about us if we lived on a Super Earth?

Épisode 34 - What If the Military Deployed a Million Nano Drones?

12 août 2020 - 3/5

Do you ever get the feeling you’re being watched?

Épisode 35 - What If You Fell Into a Pool of Jellyfish?

14 août 2020 - 3/5

What does a jellyfish sting feel like?

Épisode 36 - What If You Jumped Into a Pool of Liquid Mercury?

15 août 2020 - 3/5

What would liquid mercury do to your skin?

Épisode 37 - What If We Ran the Planet on Geothermal Power?

16 août 2020 - 3/5

Why aren't we harnessing this energy?

Épisode 38 - What If We Colonized Titan?

17 août 2020 - 3/5

Are you sick and tired of Earth and want to move somewhere far away?

Épisode 39 - What If You Built a Tipler Cylinder?

19 août 2020 - 3/5

What would you need for this time travel to happen?

Épisode 40 - What If You Fell Into a Pool of Hagfish?

20 août 2020 - 3/5

When disturbed, Hagfish can spew out 4 cups of super strong slime in a fraction of a second. So, what would happen if you jumped into pool full of them?

Épisode 41 - What If You Only Ate Raw Meat?

21 août 2020 - 3/5

How long could you live eating only raw meat?

Épisode 42 - What If T-Rex Were Still Alive?

22 août 2020 - 3/5

Could we live together with T-Rex on this Earth?

Épisode 43 - What If You Swallowed Gallium?

23 août 2020 - 3/5

Could people drink liquid metal?

Épisode 44 - What If You Got Stuck in a Time Loop?

24 août 2020 - 3/5

What if you woke up to the same day every day?

Épisode 45 - What If You Only Drank Coca-Cola?

26 août 2020 - 3/5

Could you survive on Coca-Cola?

Épisode 46 - What If You Swallowed Liquid Nitrogen?

27 août 2020 - 3/5

How much liquid nitrogen could you safely drink?

Épisode 47 - What If Covid-19 Was Made in a Lab?

28 août 2020 - 3/5

Could the virus be manmade?

Épisode 48 - What Happens If You Drink a Lava Lamp?

30 août 2020 - 3/5

What is that strange liquid in a lava lamp?

Épisode 49 - What If We Became a Type II Civilization?

31 août 2020 - 3/5

What could we do if we were that advanced?

Épisode 50 - What If You Were Bitten by 1 Million Fire Ants?

1 septembre 2020 - 3/5

What would it be like to be stung by 1 million fire ants?

Épisode 51 - What If Titanosaurs Never Went Extinct?

2 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Could titanosaurs still be alive?

Épisode 52 - What If the Universe Is Bouncing?

4 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Could our Universe be bouncing?

Épisode 53 - What If You Got Caught in a Giant Spider Web?

5 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Could you become a meal to a giant spider?

Épisode 54 - What If You Spent 24 Hours Lost at Sea?

6 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Could you spend 24 hours lost at sea and survive?

Épisode 55 - What If We Sunk Our Trash in the Mariana Trench?

7 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Is this the revolutionary solution to our trash problem?

Épisode 56 - What If You Were Swallowed by a Crocodile?

9 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Are you afraid of crocodiles?

Épisode 57 - What If All the Passengers Jumped on a Plane at Once?

10 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Would anything happen to the airplane if all passengers jumped at once?

Épisode 58 - What If There Were No Religion?

12 septembre 2020 - 3/5

The episode you have been waiting for.

Épisode 59 - What If We Nuked an Asteroid?

14 septembre 2020 - 3/5

What would it be like if we blew up an asteroid?

Épisode 60 - What If Terror Crocs Were Still Alive?

16 septembre 2020 - 3/5

What would happen if terror crocs were still here?

Épisode 61 - What If We Powered the Planet With Seawater?

18 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Could seawater power the world?

Épisode 62 - What If There Is Life on Venus?

20 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Could astronomers confirm life on Venus?

Épisode 63 - What If Russia Won the Space Race?

21 septembre 2020 - 3/5

What would the world be like if Russia had won the space race?

Épisode 64 - What If You Were Swallowed by an Anaconda?

23 septembre 2020 - 3/5

What would it be like to be digested by an anaconda?

Épisode 65 - What If We Built a Road Around the World?

24 septembre 2020 - 3/5

What if we had a road that connected us all?

Épisode 66 - What If You Fell Into a Pool of Snake Venom?

25 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Épisode 67 - What If You Were Eaten by Bacteria?

26 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Is there flesh-eating bacteria on your face right now?

Épisode 68 - What Happens If the Mega-Earthquake Hits California Tomorrow?

28 septembre 2020 - 3/5

Could an earthquake destroy the whole state of California?

Épisode 69 - What If You Fell Into a Pool Full of Venomous Spiders?

30 septembre 2020 - 3/5

What could a single spider bite do to your body?

Épisode 70 - What If You Fell Through the Earth?

30 septembre 2020 - 3/5

What would happen to you when you reach the center of Earth?

Épisode 71 - What If the Ice Age Never Happened?

3 octobre 2020 - 3/5

What would the world be like if the Ice Age never happened?

Épisode 72 - What Happens If the U.S. President Passed Away Before the Election?

3 octobre 2020 - 3/5

What would happen if President Trump became incapacitated?

Épisode 73 - What If We Built the World's Deepest Bunker?

6 octobre 2020

Why would we need the world's deepest bunker?

Épisode 74 - What If Europa Were Earth's Moon?

8 octobre 2020

Would Europa be the perfect addition to our night sky?

Épisode 75 - What If the Arctic Turned Into a Megaslump?

10 octobre 2020

Could the Arctic melt completely?

Épisode 76 - What If the World Is Only Your Illusion?

12 octobre 2020

What if everything you know is only your imagination?

Épisode 77 - What If Columbus Never Discovered America?

13 octobre 2020

How would this impact the development of Europe?

Épisode 78 - What If You Were Attacked by a Giant Squid?

15 octobre 2020

Could a giant squid eat you?

Épisode 79 - What If the Moon Exploded?

17 octobre 2020

How could the Moon explode in the first place?

Épisode 80 - What Happens If You Drink 1,000 Red Bulls in a Month?

19 octobre 2020

Épisode 81 - What If Elon Musk Became President?

21 octobre 2020

How would the new president affect space travel?

Épisode 82 - What If We've Already Made First Contact With Aliens

27 septembre 2020

Épisode 1 - What If You Were the Only Person Immune to COVID-19?

23 octobre 2020 - 5/5

What would life be like if you were the only person immune?

Épisode 2 - What Happens If You Don't Shower for a Month?

24 octobre 2020 - 5/5

What would happen if you didn't shower for a month?

Épisode 3 - What If You Stopped Brushing Your Teeth?

25 octobre 2020 - 5/5

What would your breath smell like after a year?

Épisode 4 - What If Octopuses Are Aliens From Outer Space?

27 octobre 2020 - 5/5

Could these slithery ocean dwellers really be from outer space?

Épisode 5 - What If You Lived in Ancient Rome?

29 octobre 2020 - 5/5

What strange customs did the Romans have?

Épisode 6 - What If Bats Were the Size of Humans?

1 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Happy Halloween! Could we make lots of money off their giant bat poop?

Épisode 7 - What If Trump Didn't Quit After Losing?

2 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Could Trump refuse to leave the office?

Épisode 8 - What If You Ate a Brick of Dry Ice?

4 novembre 2020 - 5/5

What would happen if you swallowed dry ice?

Épisode 9 - What If You Traveled One Billion Years Into the Future?

6 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Would we have settled in other parts of the galaxy?

Épisode 10 - What If Your Organs Were in the Wrong Place?

8 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Is it possible to stay alive with your internal organs out of place?

Épisode 11 - What If a Black Neutron Star Entered the Solar System?

10 novembre 2020 - 5/5

What is this strange object?

Épisode 12 - What If Birds Had Arms?

12 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Could these birds destroy our citites?

Épisode 13 - What If You Were Attacked by a Megalodon?

13 novembre 2020 - 5/5

What would you do if you were attacked by a megalodon shark?

Épisode 14 - What If the Solar System Orbited a Black Hole?

15 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Would a black hole centered in our Solar System destroy us?

Épisode 15 - What If You Never Cried?

17 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Could it hurt a person's sex life if they never cried?

Épisode 16 - What If a COVID Vaccine Were Available Tomorrow?

19 novembre 2020 - 5/5

What makes the Pfizer COVID vaccine so unique?

Épisode 17 - What If You Drank a Glass of Moon Water?

20 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Why is it so crucial for the future of space exploration?

Épisode 18 - What If We Could See Through A Black Hole?

20 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Épisode 19 - What If You Could Breathe Fire?

22 novembre 2020 - 5/5

How would life change if you could breathe fire?

Épisode 20 - What If Uranus Collided With Earth?

24 novembre 2020 - 5/5

What caused Uranus to become so unstable?

Épisode 21 - What If a Turkey Hit Earth at the Speed of Light?

26 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Happy Thanksgiving! Watch out for speedy turkeys.

Épisode 22 - What If You Built a Pipe to the Bottom of the Mariana Trench?

27 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Why would we build a pipe to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

Épisode 23 - What If Your Skin Were Bullet-Proof?

29 novembre 2020 - 5/5

Épisode 24 - What If You Skydived From the ISS?

30 novembre 2020 - 5/5

How fast would you travel from this height?

Épisode 25 - What If a Magnitude 20 Earthquake Hits?

2 décembre 2020 - 5/5

What could cause such a massive earthquake?

Épisode 26 - What If Humans Could Fly?

3 décembre 2020 - 5/5

How would you avoid mid-air collisions?

Épisode 27 - What If Tardigrades Were the Size of Humans?

5 décembre 2020 - 5/5

Would we live in harmony with giant tardigrades?

Épisode 28 - What If North America Suddenly Sank Into the Oceans?

7 décembre 2020 - 5/5

How long would it take for the continent to go down?

Épisode 29 - What If You Never Took Off Your Face Mask?

9 décembre 2020 - 5/5

If you never took one off, what would happen to your face?

Épisode 30 - What If We Refueled the Sun With Jupiter?

10 décembre 2020 - 5/5

How could Jupiter help us refuel the Sun?

Épisode 31 - What If You Explored the Deepest Points on Earth?

12 décembre 2020 - 5/5

What is mined deep below the Earth’s surface?

Épisode 32 - What If You Never Stopped Growing?

14 décembre 2020 - 5/5

Could Earth support a population of giant humans?

Épisode 33 - What If The Sun Swallowed Earth

16 décembre 2020 - 5/5

Épisode 34 - What If the Earth Was Actually Flat?

17 décembre 2020 - 5/5

Could the flatearthers be right?

Épisode 35 - What If We Detonated an Antimatter Bomb on Earth?

19 décembre 2020 - 5/5

How much damage would an antimatter bomb do to the planet?

Épisode 36 - What If a Tornado Hit an Active Volcano?

21 décembre 2020 - 5/5

If a volcano and a tornado combined, what could it throw at you?

Épisode 37 - What If Sandworms Were the Size of Humans?

23 décembre 2020 - 5/5

How much food would they need to sustain themselves?

Épisode 38 - What If We Settled on an Exoplanet?

24 décembre 2020 - 5/5

Which exoplanet would be ideal to settle on?

Épisode 39 - What If Everyone Planted Their Own Christmas Tree?

25 décembre 2020 - 5/5

How would this change Christmas festivities?

Épisode 40 - What If You Were Swallowed by a Crocodile?

25 décembre 2020 - 5/5

How scary can an encounter with a crocodile be?

Épisode 41 - What If There Were Only 1,000 People Left on Earth?

27 décembre 2020 - 5/5

With only 1,000 people left on the planet, 500 women and 500 men, where would we begin?

Épisode 42 - What If the Loch Ness Monster Is Real?

28 décembre 2020 - 5/5

How would life change if we found her?

Épisode 43 - What If You Didn't Cut Your Nails for a Year?

29 décembre 2020 - 5/5

What would happen if you didn't clean them?

Épisode 44 - What If a Supernova Exploded Close to Earth?

31 décembre 2020 - 5/5

How far away from a supernova are we considered safe?

Épisode 45 - What If We Didn't Have Bones?

2 janvier 2021 - 5/5

How would you eat without jawbones?

Épisode 46 - What If You Ate Nothing But Sugar For A Month

3 janvier 2021 - 5/5

Épisode 47 - What If We Filled Our Oceans Up With Lava?

4 janvier 2021 - 5/5

How long would filling oceans with lava take?

Épisode 48 - What If You Had to Live Through 2020 All Over Again?

5 janvier 2021 - 5/5

Would you be able to prevent any events from happening?

Épisode 49 - What If We Cooled the Earth with Solar Power?

7 janvier 2021 - 4/5

Could we use the panels to reflect the Sun's heat into space?

Épisode 50 - What If You Didn't Wash Your Hair for a Year?

9 janvier 2021 - 4/5

Why could avoiding shampoo in the short term be healthy?

Épisode 51 - What If You Held in All Your Farts?

11 janvier 2021 - 4/5

How could you die from holding in your farts?

Épisode 52 - What If Google Went Offline for a Week?

13 janvier 2021 - 4/5

What could cause a Google outage?

Épisode 53 - What If You Traveled to the Hell Planet?

15 janvier 2021 - 4/5

What's that stuff falling from the sky?

Épisode 54 - What If Poltergeists Were Real?

16 janvier 2021 - 4/5

How much drama is a poltergeist going to cause you?

Épisode 55 - What If No One Ever Died?

16 janvier 2021 - 4/5

Épisode 56 - What If All Life on Earth Lived in the Oceans?

18 janvier 2021 - 4/5

Would we have to evolve to pull this off?

Épisode 57 - What If You Ate Nothing but Chocolate for a Month?

20 janvier 2021 - 4/5

How much would you have to eat each day?

Épisode 58 - What If Earth Lost Power for 7 Days?

22 janvier 2021 - 4/5

How much would it cost to restore the power?

Épisode 59 - What If You Wore 100 Layers of Makeup?

23 janvier 2021 - 4/5

Can makeup cause acne?

Épisode 60 - What If Ants Were the Size of Elephants?

25 janvier 2021 - 4/5

How much damage are giant ants going to cause?

Épisode 61 - What If You Jumped Into a Pool Full of Honey?

27 janvier 2021 - 4/5

Would you jump in a pool full of honey?

Épisode 62 - What If You Touched Absolute Zero?

29 janvier 2021 - 4/5

Épisode 63 - What If We Painted Earth White?

30 janvier 2021 - 4/5

What if everything around you was white?

Épisode 64 - What If We Were a Type III Civilization?

2 février 2021 - 4/5

How would our lives change as a type III civilization?

Épisode 65 - What If You Didn't Wash Your Feet for a Year?

4 février 2021 - 4/5

Please don't try this at home.

Épisode 66 - What If the Universe Collapsed in on Itself?

6 février 2021 - 4/5

What could possibly cause this intergalactic damage?

Épisode 67 - What If You Were Swallowed by a Hippo?

7 février 2021 - 4/5

Could your whole body fit in a hippo's mouth?

Épisode 68 - What If Octopus-like Creatures Inhabit Europa?

9 février 2021 - 4/5

Can Europa support life?

Épisode 69 - What If You Only Ate Red Meat?

11 février 2021 - 4/5

Is our body ready to handle eating red meat only?

Épisode 70 - What If You Fell Into Neptune?

13 février 2021 - 4/5

How much of Neptune would you see?

Épisode 71 - What If You Were the Dirtiest Man on Earth?

16 février 2021 - 4/5

What kind of bacteria would your body grow?

Épisode 72 - What If We Discovered Alien Life on Mars?

20 février 2021 - 4/5

The Perseverance rover just successfully landed and is ready to explore! What if we find Maritians? #mars #perseverancerover

Épisode 73 - What If You Ate an Alien?

21 février 2021 - 4/5

How would an alien taste?

Épisode 74 - What If America Paid Reparations to Black People for Slavery?

26 février 2021 - 4/5

All proceeds from this video are donated to the Black Solidarity Fund. If you would like to donate, click on the link in the comments.

Épisode 75 - What If You Fell Into a Pool of Molten Metal?

28 février 2021 - 4/5

What kind of thermal suit could protect you?

Épisode 76 - What If the Spanish Flu Never Happened?

2 mars 2021 - 4/5

How did the Spanish Flu change the course of our history?

Épisode 77 - What If You Flew To Space On A Jetpack

3 mars 2021 - 4/5

Épisode 78 - What If a Volcanic Apocalypse Happened Tomorrow?

4 mars 2021 - 4/5

What would happen if all volcanoes erupted tomorrow?

Épisode 79 - What If the Ring of Fire Suddenly Erupted?

4 mars 2021 - 4/5

Which country would be most affected by this massive eruption? Could it be New Zealand?

Épisode 80 - What If You Were The Last Child Born On Earth

5 mars 2021 - 4/5

Épisode 81 - What If You Had $1,000,000 Bitcoins?

7 mars 2021 - 4/5

How rich would you actually be?

Épisode 82 - What If Earth's Atmosphere Became Super-heated to 1,000 Degrees for 5 Seconds?

9 mars 2021 - 4/5

Would our air catch fire if it was heated to 1,000 °C?

Épisode 83 - What If We Could Control Hurricanes

12 mars 2021 - 4/5

Épisode 84 - What If Humans Were Translucent?

11 mars 2021 - 4/5

What would replace physical beauty standards?

Épisode 85 - What If You Cut the Moon in Half?

14 mars 2021 - 4/5

What would happen if half of our Moon drifted away?

Épisode 86 - What If COVID-19 Never Disappears?

17 mars 2021 - 4/5

It has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began. What would life be like if it didn't disappear?

Épisode 87 - What If Jupiter Lost Its Atmosphere

19 mars 2021 - 4/5

Épisode 1 - What If You Fell Into Angel Falls?

19 mars 2021

How fast would you hit the river if you took a leap from the highest waterfall on Earth?

Épisode 2 - What If Your Stomach Acid Disappeared?

21 mars 2021

Why losing stomach acid leads to infection.

Épisode 3 - What If You Could Regrow Your Limbs?

24 mars 2021

How would society change if limb regeneration became a reality?

Épisode 4 - What If Humans Had No Hair?

26 mars 2021

What if every person on Earth was hairless?

Épisode 5 - What If You Jumped Into A Pool Of Liquid Methane

26 mars 2021

Épisode 6 - What If Everyone Started Inbreeding Tomorrow?

28 mars 2021

How would this impact our DNA?

Épisode 7 - What If Titans Were Real?

31 mars 2021

What is our greatest defense against Titans?

Épisode 8 - What If You Always Swallow Your Chewing Gum?

2 avril 2021

If you always swallow your gum, could it plug up your body?

Épisode 9 - What If You Only Ate Cheetos?

4 avril 2021

Can Cheetos be addictive?

Épisode 10 - What If Underwater Aliens are Hiding in the World's Deepest Lake?

7 avril 2021

Could aliens possibly live in this lake?

Épisode 11 - What If Everyone Was Albino?

9 avril 2021

Why could the Sun kill you?

Épisode 12 - What If We Discovered Earth 2.0

9 avril 2021

Épisode 13 - What If America Were Split Apart?

11 avril 2021

What could cause this?

Épisode 14 - What If it Rained Every Day for a Year?

14 avril 2021

Could constant raining affect how we breathe?

Épisode 15 - What If An Asteroid Were On A Collision Course To Hit Earth

16 avril 2021

Épisode 16 - What If We Raised Dinosaurs for Food?

16 avril 2021

How could we bring dinosaurs back from extinction?

Épisode 17 - What If the Oceans Lose Oxygen?

18 avril 2021

Why is oxygen disappearing from the oceans?

Épisode 18 - What If We Built A City On Mars

19 avril 2021

Épisode 19 - What If You Fell Into Lake Vostok?

23 avril 2021

How would your body react once you reach the water?

Épisode 20 - What If Civilization Collapses?

25 avril 2021

Is human civilization on the brink of disaster?

Épisode 21 - What If Earth Were Sucked Into a Black Hole?

28 avril 2021

Could Earth orbit the Sun and a black hole?

Épisode 22 - What If A Blazar Entered Our Solar System

30 avril 2021

Épisode 23 - What If North Korea Tsunami-bombed America?

30 avril 2021

Would the fallout be worse than the tsunami?

Épisode 24 - What If You Only Drank Coffee?/

2 mai 2021

What does coffee do to your body?

Épisode 25 - What If Lightsabers Were Real?

5 mai 2021

May the 4th be with you, Whatiffers. Do you long for an elegant weapon from a more civilized age? #maythe4thbewithyou

Épisode 26 - What If You Swallowed a Hornet?

7 mai 2021

Could a hornet sting you while it's inside your stomach?

Épisode 27 - What If There Were No Military Anywhere?

9 mai 2021

What would a world where no country had military look like?

Épisode 28 - What If Cyborg Insects Attacked the Planet?

11 mai 2021

First genetically modified mosquitoes were just released in Florida. Could they be a threat to you?

Épisode 29 - What If You Had as Much Money as Jeff Bezos?

13 mai 2021

What are some of the most expensive items you could buy?

Épisode 30 - What If Walls Could Protect Coastal Cities Against Rising Sea Levels?

15 mai 2021

Which coastal cities are the most threatened?

Épisode 31 - What If You Didn't Wash Your Bed Sheets for a Month?

19 mai 2021

What microorganisms live in your sheets?

Épisode 32 - What If You Traveled 1 Billion Years Into the Past?

21 mai 2021

How far back would you have to go to see the first humans?

Épisode 33 - What If Each Planet Replaced Our Moon?

23 mai 2021

What planet could we safely replace our Moon with?

Épisode 34 - What If You Drilled a Hole Through Earth?

26 mai 2021

How long would a journey through Earth take?

Épisode 35 - What If Earth Went Rogue

28 mai 2021

Épisode 36 - What If Humans Didn't Have Nails?

28 mai 2021

How could not having nails improve our health?

Épisode 37 - What If We Never Landed on the Moon?

30 mai 2021

How different would the world be if the moon landing never happened?

Épisode 38 - What If All Wildlife on Earth Was Wiped Out?

2 juin 2021

Why do experts believe we are in the sixth great extinction?

Épisode 39 - What If You Ate Plastic?

4 juin 2021

How does your body react to plastic?

Épisode 40 - What If You Could Predict The Future?

6 juin 2021

Would you be able to change your future if you already knew what was going to happen?

Épisode 41 - What If You Dumped an Iceberg Into a Volcano?

9 juin 2021

What happens when lava suddenly cools down?

Épisode 42 - What If a Megalodon Shark Fought the Kraken?

11 juin 2021

How fast would the megalodon be?

Épisode 43 - What If You Ate Nothing But Caviar for a Month?

13 juin 2021

How much money would you spend on caviar?

Épisode 44 - What If You Were Sucked Into a Whale's Blowhole?

16 juin 2021

Would you be able to escape through a whale's blowhole?

Épisode 45 - What If You Ate Nothing But Earwax?

18 juin 2021

What would earwax taste like?

Épisode 46 - What If You Only Drank Gatorade?

20 juin 2021

How does Gatorade affect your health?

Épisode 47 - What If a Hypercane Formed in the Atlantic Ocean Tomorrow?

23 juin 2021

What is a hypercane?

Épisode 48 - What If We Drilled Through Mars?

25 juin 2021

Épisode 49 - What If We Drilled Through Mars

25 juin 2021

Épisode 50 - What If You Always Ate Your Boogers?

27 juin 2021

Why do we love picking our noses?

Épisode 51 - What If You Drank From Lake Natron?

30 juin 2021

Would your insides become mummified after drinking from Lake Natron?

Épisode 52 - What If You Could Freeze a Hurricane?

2 juillet 2021

How exactly would liquid nitrogen stop a hurricane?

Épisode 53 - What If We Replaced the Moon With Jupiter Overnight?

4 juin 2021

Why would Earth no longer be a planet?

Épisode 54 - What If You Didn't Change Your Underwear For One Year?

7 juillet 2021

Would your underwear fall apart?

Épisode 55 - What If You Slept for the Next 20 Years?

9 juillet 2021

Could you wake up to see the Earth on the brink of destruction?

Épisode 56 - What If Your Tongue Were Twice as Long?

11 juillet 2021

What would happen to your sense of taste?

Épisode 57 - What If You Mated With Neanderthals

14 juillet 2021

What would your children look like?

Épisode 58 - What If the Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning of the Universe?

16 juillet 2021

Will the Universe and everything in it ever die?

Épisode 59 - What If You Lost Your Teeth Overnight?

18 juillet 2021

Could you lose your ability to speak?

Épisode 60 - What If You Fell Off the World's Tallest Building?

21 juillet 2021

Why does the G-force matter when you are falling?

Épisode 61 - What If You Were Bitten by One Million Mosquitoes?

23 juillet 2021

Could they eventually suck you completely dry?

Épisode 62 - What If You Only Ate Insects for the Rest of Your Life?

25 juillet 2021

What effect would eating bugs have on your body?

Épisode 63 - What If You Swallowed Mouthwash?

28 juillet 2021

Why could drinking mouthwash make you drunk?

Épisode 64 - What If You Shed Your Skin Like a Snake?

30 juillet 2021

What would happen to scars and acne after shedding your skin?

Épisode 65 - What If Starbucks Dumped Its Waste in the Amazon?

1 août 2021

How would coffee waste help restore the Amazon rainforest?

Épisode 66 - What If Jupiter Swallowed Every Planet in the Solar System?

4 août 2021

What would you see from Earth?

Épisode 67 - What If Monkeys Took Over the World?

6 août 2021

How intelligent would monkeys need to be to take over?

Épisode 68 - What If There Were an Alien Civilization on Proxima b?

8 août 2021

What conditions make this planet a candidate for alien life?

Épisode 69 - What If You Were Trapped in a Tanning Bed for 24 Hours?

11 août 2021

What would happen to your organs?

Épisode 70 - What If a New Continent Formed Tomorrow?

13 août 2021

How would global superpowers deal with a new strategic territory up for grabs?

Épisode 71 - What If You Jumped Into a Bathtub Full of Tapeworms?

15 août 2021

How many tapeworms would it take to fill a bathtub?

Épisode 72 - What If Earth Were Teleported to the Edge of the Universe?

18 août 2021

Why is the Universe that we see a Universe of the past?

Épisode 73 - What If We Stopped Animal Testing?

20 août 2021

Why would this delay your COVID-19 vaccine?…

Épisode 74 - What If You Spent 100 Years on Mars?

22 août 2021

How long before everyone can afford to travel to Mars?…

Épisode 75 - What If Aliens Brought Life to Earth?

25 août 2021

How could a meteor carry life to our planet?…

Épisode 76 - What If You Get Swallowed by a Goliath Fish?

27 août 2021

Could you outswim this predator?…

Épisode 1 - What If You Had Twice as Much Skin?

1 septembre 2021

How would twice as much skin affect your health?

Épisode 2 - What If You Wore the Same Clothes for a Year?

3 septembre 2021

What would happen to your skin?…

Épisode 3 - What If We Could Reheat the Earth's Core?

5 septembre 2021

Would we have a chance of fixing the Earth before it's too late?…

Épisode 4 - What If 9/11 Happened Again?

10 septembre 2021

Where would the attack come from?

Épisode 5 - What If You Were Attacked by Murder Hornets?

11 septembre 2021

What makes murder hornets so deadly?

Épisode 6 - What If Earth Was Spinning at the Speed of Light?

12 septembre 2021

How long would one day be? Would life survive?…

Épisode 7 - What If You Went Through Puberty in 24 Hours?

15 septembre 2021

If your body grew this fast, could your mind keep up with it?

Épisode 8 - What If Ice Was Hot Instead of Cold?

17 septembre 2021

Could we live like this?

Épisode 9 - What If Jupiter and Saturn Collided?

19 septembre 2021

Who would be the winner?

Épisode 10 - What If We Poured Concrete Into a Volcano?

22 septembre 2021

Could concrete withstand the volcano?

Épisode 11 - What If You Could Untie Your Belly Button?

24 septembre 2021

Could your belly button leak?

Épisode 12 - What If You Didn’t Leave the Bathtub for a Month?

25 septembre 2021

What would happen to your skin?

Épisode 13 - What If You Fell Into Lake Kivu?

26 septembre 2021

How could the lake suddenly explode?

Épisode 14 - What If You Swallowed Liquid Mercury?

29 septembre 2021

Can mercury change your brain chemistry?

Épisode 15 - What If There Were Life After Death?

1 octobre 2021

Could you speak to the living?

Épisode 16 - What If a Black Hole Is Already in Our Solar System?

3 octobre 2021

Is a black hole about to swallow Earth?

Épisode 17 - What If All Men Disappeared?

7 octobre 2021

Why wouldn't the loss of all the men on the planet keep women from reproducing?

Épisode 18 - What If Earthquakes Lasted a Year?

8 octobre 2021

How could you adapt?

Épisode 19 - What If the Big Rip Happened Tomorrow?

9 octobre 2021

Épisode 20 - What If Our DNA Stopped Mutating?

11 octobre 2021

What would happen to our species?

Épisode 21 - What If We Vaccinated All Animals for Covid-19?

13 octobre 2021

What vaccine would work?

Épisode 22 - What If You Ate a Brick of Dry Ice?

16 octobre 2021

How much could you eat before it hurts you?

Épisode 23 - What If Carbon Disappeared for 5 Seconds?

17 octobre 2021

Épisode 24 - What If You Could Hear Planets?

20 octobre 2021

What would each planet sound like?

Épisode 25 - What If You Were Injected With Graphene?

22 octobre 2021

Could graphene make your cells regenerate faster?

Épisode 26 - What If the World Lost Oxygen for Five Seconds?

23 octobre 2021

Épisode 27 - What If We Killed All Cockroaches?

24 octobre 2021

Épisode 28 - What If Your Brain Stopped Working for 5 Seconds?

27 octobre 2021

Would you become brain-dead?

Épisode 29 - What If These Three Animals Swallowed You?

29 octobre 2021

What secrets lie in the crocodile's stomach?

Épisode 30 - What If You Swallowed Gallium?

30 octobre 2021

What could gallium do to your farts?

Épisode 31 - What If You Woke Up During Heart Surgery?

31 octobre 2021

What happens when anesthesia doesn't work?

Épisode 32 - What If You Never Washed Your Hair?

3 novembre 2021

Could this be good for your hair?

Épisode 33 - What If You Drilled a Hole at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench?

5 novembre 2021

Has anyone attempted to drill a hole at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

Épisode 34 - What If We Moved to Ceres?

7 novembre 2021

What would it be like to settle on the surface of this icy world?

Épisode 35 - What If You Couldn't Trust Your Own Memory?

9 novembre 2021

What does the Mandela Effect reveal about our memory?

Épisode 36 - What If You Were In The Most Dangerous Prison for 20 Years?

10 novembre 2021

Would you become a cannibal?

Épisode 37 - What If You Stopped Sweating?

12 novembre 2021

Épisode 38 - What If You Brought Modern Technology to the Middle Ages?

14 novembre 2021

Would you create a new pandemic?

Épisode 39 - What If You Had No Food for a Month?

16 novembre 2021

Could your heart stop beating?

Épisode 40 - What If You Spent a Day on Every Planet in Our Solar System?

18 novembre 2021

What planet would be the most dangerous?

Épisode 41 - What If You Could Trap a Ghost Like a Ghostbuster?

20 novembre 2021

How much would the pack cost?

Épisode 42 - What If You Only Drank Coca-Cola for a Month?

21 novembre 2021

What would it do to your teeth?

Épisode 43 - What If Dune's Sandworms Were Real?

24 novembre 2021

How much would the sandworms destroy?

Épisode 44 - What If We Dumped All Our Trash in the Oceans?

26 novembre 2021

Let's save our oceans!

Épisode 45 - What If You Swallowed All Elements of the Periodic Table?

28 novembre 2021

Which elements would ruin the fun by killing you?

Épisode 46 - What If Ticks Were the Size of Humans?

1 décembre 2021

Why should you just let these human-sized ticks eat you?

Épisode 47 - What If Your Skin Was Made of Rock?

2 décembre 2021

What kind of superhuman powers would you get?

Épisode 48 - What If the Earth Stopped Spinning for 5 Seconds?

3 décembre 2021

How much damage would this sudden stoppage cause?

Épisode 49 - What If You Were Raised by Wild Animals?

6 décembre 2021

What would it be like to be raised by animals? What would happen when you return to human society?

Épisode 50 - What If the World Lost Oxygen for an Hour?

8 décembre 2021

Épisode 51 - What If We Knew What Would Happen in the Next 100 Years?

10 décembre 2021

What countries would become world leaders?

Épisode 52 - What If the Megalodon Was Hiding in the Mariana Trench?

12 décembre 2021

How would the Mariana Trench make this apex predator more docile?

Épisode 53 - What If You Experienced the Most Painful Thing?

15 décembre 2021

What would be the most painful experience you could have?

Épisode 54 - What If We Woke Up Volcanoes to Fight Climate Change?

17 décembre 2021

In what ways could you activate a volcano?

Épisode 55 - What If Everyone's Memories Were Erased?

18 décembre 2021

Could this event create an alternate timeline?

Épisode 56 - What If a Dark Hydrogen Iceberg Fell to Earth?

19 décembre 2021

What would a hydrogen iceberg do to Earth?

Épisode 57 - What If Humans Had a Mating Season?

22 décembre 2021

What would be the perfect time to mate?

Épisode 58 - What If These 5 Things Disappeared for 5 Seconds?

24 décembre 2021

Could your life ever be the same when those life-supporting things come back?

Épisode 59 - What If Your Skin Were Bullet-Proof?

25 décembre 2021

What is bulletproof skin made out of?

Épisode 60 - What If We Drilled Through a Volcano?

26 décembre 2021

What would be the benefits of drilling into a volcano?

Épisode 61 - What If All the World's Ice Melted?

29 décembre 2021

How would this impact global temperatures?

Épisode 62 - What If You Had 100 Plastic Surgeries?

31 décembre 2021

How would you look after that many surgeries?

Épisode 63 - What If Aliens are Living Inside Earth?

2 janvier 2022

Could an advanced civilization of humanoid aliens be hiding in plain sight?

Épisode 64 - What If Carbon Disappeared for 5 Seconds?

4 janvier 2022

Épisode 65 - What If Mullaperiyar Dam Suddenly Collapsed?

5 janvier 2022

What could cause the dam to collapse?

Épisode 66 - What If You Ate 100 Hot Dogs In One Day?

7 janvier 2022

How long would it take you to stuff yourself with all of them?

Épisode 67 - What If the Oceans Caught Fire?

9 janvier 2022

How much fuel would be needed to set the oceans on fire?

Épisode 68 - What If Mars Had Rings Like Saturn?

12 janvier 2022

How soon would those new rings start raining down on Mars?

Épisode 69 - What If You Evolved 1,000 Years in a Day?

14 janvier 2022

How would your appearance change?

Épisode 70 - What If You Were Sucked Into a Whirlpool?

16 janvier 2022

What would it feel like?

Épisode 71 - What If Your Body Could Be Recycled?

19 janvier 2022

Why is there a high demand for body parts?

Épisode 72 - What If All the Planets of the Solar System Were in the Habitable Zone?

23 janvier 2022

Could we kickstart life on other planets?

Épisode 73 - What If We Killed All Cockroaches?

24 janvier 2022

Épisode 74 - What If You Drink Toilet Water?

26 janvier 2022

Is it already in your water supply?

Épisode 75 - What If the Oceans Were Made of Gasoline?

28 janvier 2022

What would happen to gas prices?

Épisode 76 - What If You Jumped Into a Pool of Bromine?

30 janvier 2022

What color would you turn?

Épisode 77 - What If We’re Living in a Computer Simulation?

1 février 2022

Épisode 78 - What If Men Could Get Pregnant?

2 février 2022

How would you carry a baby with no uterus?

Épisode 79 - What If Earth Was the Size of Jupiter?

4 février 2022

How big would Earth be compared to the Sun?

Épisode 80 - What If Russia Started a War?

6 février 2022

What is Russia's most dangerous weapon?

Épisode 81 - What If the James Webb Telescope Found Alien Life?

9 février 2022

What would happen if aliens existed?

Épisode 82 - What If You Could Make Spider Web Like Spider-Man?

11 février 2022

Could you make a web strong enough to stop a train?

Épisode 83 - What If You Never Threw Anything Away?

13 février 2022

Is hoarding good for the environment?

Épisode 84 - What If Love Didn't Exist

15 février 2022

Would we still buy chocolates and flowers for Valentine’s Day?

Épisode 85 - What If a Gamma-Ray Burst Hit a Black Hole?

16 février 2022

Would this cosmic event let you travel back in time?

Épisode 86 - What If We Nuked the Mariana Trench?

18 février 2022

What would this underwater explosion be like?

Épisode 87 - What If You Didn't Pee for a Week?

20 février 2022

How would it damage your organs?

Épisode 88 - What If You Were Attacked by a Bear?

22 février 2022

How would different kinds of bears attack?

Épisode 89 - What If You Climbed the Highest Mountain in the Solar System?

24 février 2022

What would you see from the top?

Épisode 90 - What If You Lived on Uranus?

27 février 2022

Why does Uranus smell so bad?

Épisode 91 - What If You Were in Ukraine Right Now?

27 février 2022

Unfortunately, sometimes our hypothetical scenarios become reality...#standwithukraine What can you do to help?

Épisode 92 - What If You Ate 1 Million Mealworms?

1 mars 2022

How could these creatures eat you alive?

Épisode 93 - What If You Touched the Sun?

3 mars 2022

What materials could protect you?

Épisode 94 - What If Everyone Lived for 150 Years?

6 mars 2022

How can you extend your life for that long?

Épisode 95 - What If it Rained Volcanic Glass?

8 mars 2022

Would this glass end up in your drinking water?

Épisode 96 - What If Putin Died?

10 mars 2022

Who would replace him?

Épisode 97 - What If a Meteorite Crashed Into Your Home?

12 mars 2022

What's the likelihood this could happen to you?

Épisode 98 - What If You Spent 24 Hours in a Hot Spring?

15 mars 2022

How quickly would your organs cook?

Épisode 99 - What If China Invades Russia?

17 mars 2022

What if they used nuclear weapons?

Épisode 100 - What If a Marshmallow Hit the Earth at the Speed of Light?

22 mars 2022

How could a marshmallow move this fast?

Épisode 101 - What If You Had Three Eyes?

24 mars 2022

How would your third eye see the world?

Épisode 102 - What If the Earth Had No Core?

27 mars 2022

Would humans still be alive?

Épisode 103 - What If We Could Turn Deserts Into Farmland?

30 mars 2022

How much would it cost?

Épisode 104 - What If You Never Washed Your Feet?

31 mars 2022

What kind of foot infections would you get?

Épisode 105 - What If the Largest Asteroid Hit Earth?

1 avril 2022

Which asteroid would be the deadliest?

Épisode 106 - What If You Jumped on Every Planet in the Solar System?

2 avril 2022

Épisode 107 - What If You Spent a Month on Snake Island?

3 avril 2022

How would you find water?

Épisode 108 - What If You Didn't Sleep For a Week?

6 avril 2022

How would no sleep impact your daily life?

Épisode 109 - What If You Ate Roadkill?

8 avril 2022

Is eating roadkill illegal?

Épisode 110 - What If Russia Launched a Nuke?

10 avril 2022

How hard is it to launch a nuke?

Épisode 111 - What If Russia Crashed the International Space Station?

12 avril 2022

Would the ISS hit your city?

Épisode 112 - What If You Fell Into Lake Nyos?

14 avril 2022

What is the history of this dangerous lake?

Épisode 113 - What If You Lived in a Cosmic Skyscraper?

16 avril 2022

How tall could this building be?

Épisode 114 - What If You Were Stranded in Antarctica?

19 avril 2022

Where would you find shelter in Antarctica?

Épisode 115 - What If the Sun Collided With a Black Hole?

21 avril 2022

How would this cosmic collision unfold?

Épisode 116 - What If the Megalodon Shark Fought the Leviathan Whale?

23 avril 2022

Which prehistoric sea creature is the fiercer fighter?

Épisode 117 - What If You Lived in the Hottest Place on Earth?

26 avril 2022

How hot would it get?

Épisode 118 - What If You Visited Earth's Next Space Station?

28 avril 2022

How close are we to space tourism being a reality?

Épisode 119 - What If Earth Was Sandwiched Between Two Asteroid Belts?

30 avril 2022

How long before one of these belts' asteroids heads toward Earth?

Épisode 120 - What If You Were Attacked by a T-Rex?

3 mai 2022

What would happen if a T. rex sunk its teeth into you?

Épisode 121 - What If You Fell in a Pool of Lampreys?

5 mai 2022

How quickly would these lampreys kill you?

Épisode 122 - What if Earth Dropped to Absolute Zero for 5 Seconds?

7 mai 2022

Épisode 123 - What If You Fell Into a Pool of Leeches?

10 mai 2022

What kind of infections would leeches give you?

Épisode 124 - What If Humans Were Silicon-Based Instead of Carbon-Based?

12 mai 2022

What would a silicon-based human body look like?

Épisode 125 - What If You Didn't Treat Head Lice?

14 mai 2022

How fast do lice breed in your hair?

Épisode 126 - What If We Put Solar Panels Around the Sun?

17 mai 2022

How would we get this energy back to Earth?

Épisode 127 - What If the Moon Was Flat?

19 mai 2022

How would a flat Moon impact our oceans?

Épisode 128 - What If You Had Camouflage Skin?

21 mai 2022

Where could you hide?

Épisode 129 - What If the Sun Was a Blue Star?

22 mai 2022

How different would the world look if our Sun went from yellow to blue?

Épisode 130 - What If There Were Aliens at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench?

24 mai 2022

How would these aliens communicate?

Épisode 131 - What If You Were Pregnant With Octuplets?

26 mai 2022

Do all eight babies come out at once?

Épisode 132 - What If the Earth Was Spinning on Its Side?

28 mai 2022

Why would our weather be so different?

Épisode 133 - What If Russia Turned Into the Next North Korea?

31 mai 2022

How would it affect Russia's economy?

Épisode 134 - What If We Brought Europa's Ocean Water to Earth?

2 juin 2022

Épisode 135 - What If You Got Monkeypox?

4 juin 2022

What would happen to your body if you got monkeypox?

Épisode 136 - What If Styxosaurus Was Alive?

7 juin 2022

Where could the Styxosaurus be hiding?

Épisode 137 - What If You Swallowed the World's Most Powerful Magnet?

9 juin 2022

How could ingesting a magnet change your DNA?

Épisode 138 - What If You Stepped on a Rusty Nail

10 juin 2022

Could this one rusty nail lead to your death?

Épisode 139 - What If You Spray Tanned Every Day for a Year?

13 juin 2022

What would you look like after spray tanning non-stop?

Épisode 140 - What If Venus and Mars Swapped Orbits?

14 juin 2022

What makes Venus and Mars impossible to live on right now?

Épisode 141 - What If Ukraine Couldn't Grow Food This Summer?

16 juin 2022

Could the war prevent Ukraine from harvesting food this year?

Épisode 142 - What If You Aged Backwards?

18 juin 2022

How could aging backward affect your body at different stages of life?

Épisode 143 - What If Putin Never Came to Power?

22 juin 2022

How would Russia's people's lives be different if Putin was never in power?

Épisode 144 - What If the Strongest Hurricane Ever Hit New York?

24 juin 2022

What would make this the strongest hurricane ever?

Épisode 145 - What If Mt. Fuji Exploded Tomorrow?

26 juin 2022

How could Mt. Fuji's explosion lead to a rise in China's economy?

Épisode 146 - What If You Met a Time Traveler?

27 juin 2022

Épisode 147 - What If You Mated With an Alien?

29 juin 2022

It's a beautiful night. Just you, a bottle of wine and your partner drifting through the cosmos in a UFO. As your caress their green skin, you know that tonight's the night you're mating with an alien. But would your anatomy be compatible? How would conception take place? And what would your child look like?

Épisode 1 - What If the Earth Was Always Facing the Sun?

5 juillet 2022

A scorching hot never-ending day on one side and a permanent frozen night on the other. This is what our planet would be like if it was tidally locked to the Sun. How would your life be different on this Earth? Where would you actually be able to survive? And what would happen to your sense of time?

Épisode 2 - What If You Lived on Kepler 22-b?

9 juillet 2022

635 light-years from where you are sitting, way out in outer space, lies a planet. The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is located within a star's habitable zone, it means that there is a chance that liquid water exists on its surface. And where there's water, there’s also the possibility of life. Human life. What would the weather be like over there?

Épisode 3 - What If You Could Power a Spaceship with Antimatter?

12 juillet 2022

Antimatter is the most potent fuel source known to humanity. And it could be the secret to faster-than-light space travel. But where in the Universe would we find antimatter? How fast could it make your spaceship travel? And why would you want to stock up on bananas on your intergalactic trip?

Épisode 4 - What If We Stopped Procreating for 50 Years?

14 juillet 2022

Every year, around 140 million babies are born worldwide. And if we continue at this pace, 50 years from now the global population will reach 10.5 billion people. The world might get a bit crowded. So let's ban all babies for the next 50 years. What would life be like if we suddenly stopped procreating? When would our global population decrease dramatically? And what would happen when the baby ban was lifted?

Épisode 5 - What If an Asteroid Cracked the Moon in Half?

15 juillet 2022

A giant asteroid is headed our way. But no, it won't hit the Earth. This asteroid is about to slam into the Moon and crack it right in half. What would it be like to witness this epic collision? Would the Moon break clean in two? Or would it shatter into a million pieces? And how could one of these pieces wipe out life here on Earth?

Épisode 6 - What If Everything You Touched Turned Into Gold?

16 juillet 2022

If you could turn everything you touched into gold, how soon would your life become unbearable? Why would this superpower not make you rich? Why could things around you explode? And how could one touch end all life on the planet?

Épisode 7 - What If We Brought Dinosaurs Back From Extinction?

19 juillet 2022

Welcome to Jurassic World. In real life. Let’s bring back some of the most dangerous creatures to ever roam the Earth. What could go wrong? How would we be able to clone dinosaurs? What would life with them roaming the Earth be like? And which ones would eat you for breakfast first?

Épisode 8 - What If We Had To Rebuild Human Society From Scratch?

21 juillet 2022

The world has ended. The sky has fallen. Doomsday has come and gone. So now what? Let’s start rebuilding civilization, of course. How would you begin to come back from an apocalypse? What could you use from the remains of our old society? And how would you be able to remember anything?

Épisode 9 - What If We Nuked the Sun?

22 juillet 2022

Humanity’s nuclear arsenal is capable of destroying all life on Earth. Over. And over. And over. Maybe it's time we dumped it far away. We might want to inhabit other planets in the future, so how about our closest star? How many nukes could we throw at the Sun? What would be the price tag for this mission? And could we accidentally destroy our only source of daylight?

Épisode 10 - What If Jupiter Collided With the Smallest Star?

28 juillet 2022

The biggest planet in the Solar System. And the smallest star in the known Universe. Today, they are on a collision course. EBLM J0555-57Ab is a red dwarf and the smallest star we've ever discovered. Jupiter is huge. It's about 11 times larger than Earth. But because it's mostly made of hydrogen, it's not massive enough to be a star. So what would happen if these two giants collided?

Épisode 11 - What If You Were Attacked by a Komodo Dragon?

2 août 2022

A giant, fork-tongued lizard with razor-sharp teeth. And a bite with bacteria-laced venom that's seeping into your flesh. Well, this is no legend. It’s a Komodo dragon. What would happen if you were attacked by one of these giant lizards? What would be your best bet to fight it off?

Épisode 12 - What If You Took a Ride on Halley's Comet?

4 août 2022

Every 75 years, a ball of fire streaks across the sky. But that's no fireball. It's Halley's Comet. And you're about to hitch a ride on it. Get ready for a journey around the Sun to the edge of the Solar System. And back again. What conditions would you find there? How would you manage to survive on your new icy home? And what would it have in common with a trip to a Hawaiian island?

Épisode 13 - What If We Created the Next Human Species?

6 août 2022

All good things must come to an end. Sadly, Homo sapiens’ time on Earth is no exception. And someone would surely take our place as the dominant species. How could genetic engineering spell out the end for our species? What would distinguish the next Homo species from us? And could the world’s next dominant species not be human at all?

Épisode 14 - What If You Had Eyes Like a Fly?

9 août 2022

Oh my. Have you done something different with your peepers? Like maybe swapped them out for a pair of freakishly oversized fly eyes? They look functional. How would you see the world around you? What would you look like to other people? And how would this change your buzz life? Er, I mean love life?

Épisode 15 - What If the Argentinosaurus Was Alive Today?

11 août 2022

Taller than a six-story building. Longer than three school buses. Ten times as heavy as an elephant. The largest dinosaur ever is coming back from extinction. What would life be like walking among these giants? How could we possibly tame these creatures? And how would they threaten to destroy human society? Why is it called argentine lizard?

Épisode 16 - What If South America Disappeared?

13 août 2022

It’s been over 200 million years since South America broke off Africa into its own continent. But now it’s behaving very strangely. It’s taking on water and going down. How would this whole continent turn into a sinking ship? What effect would this have on the rest of the world? And how would you and everyone else manage to escape?

Épisode 17 - What If Earth Had Jupiter's Magnetic Field?

16 août 2022

The Sun isn't the biggest thing in our Solar System. And it’s not Jupiter, either. But close. It's Jupiter's very own magnetic field. What would it be like if Earth’s magnetic field was as huge as Jupiter’s? How much stronger would our magnetosphere become? Why would it make solar radiation worse? And how could this help you treat anxiety?

Épisode 18 - What If a Rogue Star Collided With the Sun?

18 août 2022

A rogue star is headed straight for our Sun. If these two stars slam into each other, it could spell the end of all life on our planet. How could a rogue star end up in our Solar System? What would this epic collision look like? And how much time do you have left to live? What is Gliese 710? Where in the Oort Cloud is it? Is a rogue star in our Solar System?

Épisode 19 - Most Dangerous Things You Could Jump Into

23 août 2022

What are the most dangerous things you could jump into? Why is liquid mercury so dangerous? How can lake Natron located in Ol Doinyo Lengai turn you to stone? Why is potassium and sodium carbonate such a dangerous mix? What can stingrays do to you if you jumped into a pool of them? How scary is a pool of sharks? Can you even survive a fall into a volcano? Would you cool off in a pool of liquid nitrogen?

Épisode 20 - What If All the Planets Doubled in Size?

25 août 2022

Some of the planets in our Solar System are gigantic. But what if they got even bigger? Let’s go up the planetary size chart and see what kind of chaos doubling the size of every planet would make. What would it be like to live on a super-Earth? How big would Jupiter need to get to become a star? And would Pluto finally regain its planetary status?

Épisode 21 - What If South America and Africa Joined Together?

27 août 2022

Millions of years ago, all the continents were one. Waiting to crack and spread into the world we know today. So how about we fast forward and bring two of them back together? South America and Africa. If these two landmasses fused together, how disastrous would that be? What new animal species would it create?

Épisode 22 - What If You Lived in the Stone Age?

30 août 2022

Get your bone flute and gather around the fire. Today on What If, we're taking you back to the time of woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. That's right. You're living in the Stone Age. If you were living day-to-day in this primitive world, what would you use as tools? How would you communicate with anyone? And would you have to eat your family?

Épisode 23 - What If Giant Bugs Roamed the Earth?

1 septembre 2022

Giant bugs are now roaming the Earth. If these behemoths existed, would humanity become bug food? How could a bird save your life? And why would Grandma’s jewelry come in handy? How strong is their chitin? Can you pierce through their exoskeleton?

Épisode 24 - What If Latin America Was a Single Country?

2 septembre 2022

What if I told you Latin America could have hosted one of the world’s greatest superpowers? Capable of changing the course of history in ways that only players like the U.S., China or Russia can today. And to do that, you'd only need one thing. Uniting all of its countries into a single state.

Épisode 25 - What If You Fell into a Yellowstone Hot Spring?

4 septembre 2022

At Yellowstone National Park, all that stands between you and a pool of boiling, rotten-egg-smelling, acidic water is a humble boardwalk. And your good judgment. Stray off the path and you could be headed toward quite the swim. Heads up. Scorching temperatures would be just the start of your problems. How long could you survive your accidental dip in Emerald Springs?

Épisode 26 - What If We Entered a New Ice Age?

7 septembre 2022

Earth has gone through at least five major ice ages in its history. And you better start adapting now. Because another ice age is about to begin. Hypothetically. How would a new ice age change Earth as we know it? What could you do to survive on a frozen planet? And how are we already delaying another ice age?

Épisode 27 - What Happens When the Queen Dies?

9 septembre 2022

Breaking news. Flags are flying at half-staff. The world mourns the death of a beloved monarch. Queen Elizabeth II has passed peacefully in her Balmoral Castle in Scotland. What will this mean for the future of the Commonwealth? How would this affect the economy? And what does Operation London Bridge have to do with this?

Épisode 28 - What If You Drank Radioactive Tritium?

11 septembre 2022

Tritium. It's that mysterious glowing element found in air, water and now inside you. That's right. You're going take this radioactive isotope and chug it down. So if you drank tritium, how could your body power a nuclear reactor? What would happen to your DNA? And would you glow in the dark?

Épisode 29 - What If Earth Was Half Land and Half Water?

14 septembre 2022

Imagine Earth with an even 50/50 split between continents and oceans. Our planet covered half by land half by water. How would this change the planet as you know it? What new kinds of vacations could this make possible for you? And what does the color of your pee have to do with this?

Épisode 30 - What If the Megalodon Shark Never Went Extinct?

16 septembre 2022

An ancient creature is lurking in the ocean. It's double the size of a T.rex. Its gigantic jaws could crush a car. And now, it's on the hunt for you. Megalodon sharks haven't existed for more than two million years. But today, we're bringing these apex predators back to wreak some havoc.

Épisode 31 - What If You Were Caught in a Riptide?

18 septembre 2022

Every year, beach lifeguards rescue tens of thousands of people. Four out of five times, it's from these rip currents, also called riptides. If you see the water do this, get out fast. If you don't, you might get caught in a riptide. What are the warning signs? Which direction should you swim if you want to survive? And what's pulmonary edema?

Épisode 32 - What If All Helium Disappeared for 5 Seconds?

25 septembre 2022

Birthday balloons falling limply to the ground. Satellites, medical scanners and TVs fading to black. And twinkling stars in the night sky disappearing one by one. All in just five seconds without helium. What would the loss of helium do to your body? How would the rest of the Universe react to this molecular on-off switch? Could this bring about the end of our Solar System? How could it affect CERN's Large Hadron Collider?

Épisode 33 - What If You Visited the Galaxy’s Most Dangerous Planet?

27 septembre 2022

There are places in the Universe where you could turn to ash, freeze to death or be completely crushed by gravity. And you're about to visit them all. What conditions make some of these exoplanets so dangerous? What would happen if you set foot on them? And which planet would slash you up to bits and pieces?

Épisode 34 - What If Earth Was a Pulsar Planet?

30 septembre 2022

Something is very wrong with our Sun. It’s turned into a spinning lighthouse of death. What would make the Sun so much more deadly than usual? Would there be any way life on Earth could survive this? Why would it feel like you're stuck at the bottom of the ocean? What's a pulsar planet like? Would there be eternal darkness on Earth? Will Earth still be habitable?

Épisode 35 - Have Historians Discovered a Secret Civilization in the Amazon?

2 octobre 2022

The Amazon rainforest stretches for millions of kilometers, hiding ancient tribes, animals and maybe something else. What if under this mysterious canopy lies an advanced civilization? How did we miss something so huge? Is the rainforest just an overgrown garden? Why didn't these people fight off the European conquest? What's the story behind the El Dorado myth? Did Francisco de Orellana discover any clues?

Épisode 36 - What If We Built a Bridge Into Space?

4 octobre 2022

Today, we're going to build the highest bridge on planet Earth. Welcome to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the “Roof of the World.”It’s home to the world’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest. But also the longest, deepest canyon on the planet, the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon. This super canyon is 505 km (313 mi) long and 6 km (3.7 mi) deep. And it’s here that we’ll be taking on one of the most epic engineering challenges ever.

Épisode 37 - What If the Largest Black Hole Entered Our Solar System?

8 octobre 2022

It’s invisible, deadly and sucking up every bit of matter in its path. The most massive black hole in the known Universe is headed right toward Earth. What would you see as it started to slurp up the Milky Way Galaxy? What kind of tasty dish would Earth become? And once it’s finished with us, where would it go next? Maybe the Orion Arm? Or perhaps the Oort Cloud?

Épisode 38 - What If The Empire State Building Was Swallowed by a Sinkhole?

12 octobre 2022

The ground around the Empire State Building appears to be sinking. This historic landmark is about to get lost in a giant pit. And you will be coming down with it. If a sinkhole swallowed the Empire State Building, would you be safer at its top or bottom? What would the warning signs be? And could anything increase your chances of surviving?

Épisode 39 - What If Kepler 22-b Was in Our Solar System?

14 octobre 2022

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we're bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary neighborhood. Where would this planet need to orbit within the Sun’s habitable zone? How would you go visit it? And would you find life when you get there?

Épisode 40 - What If Earth’s Oceans Evaporated?

19 octobre 2022

It's about to get really hot down on Earth. Because all our oceans suddenly started to boil, sending steam into the atmosphere at an alarming rate. Why would all this water in the air lead to setting the planet on fire? How would you feel with all this extra humidity? And how could this make Earth a lot like one of our sister planets? Would there be a massive drought? How severe would the droughts be?

Épisode 41 - What If Aliens Lived on The Moon?

22 octobre 2022

What if the Moon was more than just a lifeless rock? Under that bright light, it could be hiding an alien civilization. When did this alien life begin on the Moon? What would these lunar-dwellers breathe? And what would our neighbors look like?

Épisode 42 - What If Jupiter Collided With Earth?

26 octobre 2022

The biggest planet in the Solar System has gone rogue. And now it’s heading straight toward Earth. You have 30 days till this gas giant wipes us all out. What speeds would Jupiter be traveling at? What kind of havoc would it wreak along the way? Is there any way we could survive getting eaten by a planetary Pacman? What would happen to the Asteroid belt?

Épisode 43 - What If Earth Gradually Came to a Standstill?

30 octobre 2022

Right now, wherever you are, you are spinning with our planet at hundreds of meters per second. But what if our planet started hitting the brakes until our world didn’t spin at all? Why would it be harder for you to move around? Why would some parts of the world actually benefit from this? And why could this slowdown provide you with the trip of a lifetime? What's the Coriolis effect?

Épisode 44 - What If Cthulhu Was Real?

2 novembre 2022

The night is dark and stormy at the beach. A crowd prays to the thunder in the skies. All hail the god of chaos, who sleeps no more. Cthulhu, the great, green, bringer of madness rises! A colossal shadow emerges from the ocean. Wielding tentacles, wings and eyes that reach deep into your soul and your mind. If Cthulhu, the terrifying demi-god from classic literature, was here, who would it attack first? What would happen when you looked at it? And why would you bring out the big guns?

Épisode 45 - What If We Nuked Jupiter?

4 novembre 2022

Jupiter may be the biggest planet in the Solar System, but its days are numbered. Because today, we’re using Earth’s biggest, baddest bombs to blow the gas giant into oblivion. How many nukes would you need to do the job? What obstacles would these rocket-bound bombs encounter on the way? Would one nuclear explosion ignite the entire planet? What are Kirkwood gaps?

Épisode 46 - What If Lizard People Ruled the World?

9 novembre 2022

Attention, humans. Shapeshifting alien lizards have taken control of your world. They’ve maneuvered themselves into positions of power. And they could be anyone. Where did these powerful reptilians come from? How could you tell if someone is a lizard in disguise? How could you possibly defeat these all-powerful overlords? Could they be from the Orion and Draco constellations?

Épisode 47 - What If Earth Was a Spaceship?

16 novembre 2022

Imagine that the Sun is on the verge of exploding. Or that a planet-killing asteroid is headed our way. Or maybe you just want to take the entire planet on a joy ride around the Universe. Well, fasten your seatbelts. Let’s pilot Spaceship Earth out of our Solar System. What would it take to free our planet from the Sun’s gravity? What out-of-the-box ideas would actually be the most efficient? And why would you need to nearly destroy everything on Earth to make this work?

Épisode 48 - What If the Moon Orbited Earth Faster?

18 novembre 2022

uckle up. We're going to take the orbit of this rock and kick it into high gear. Behold the Moon breaking its planetary speed limit. How would this event flood cities? What would happen to the Earth's crust? Why would the Moon go rogue? What's the Roche limit? What is the basis of Kepler's third law?

Épisode 49 - What If You Crashed on an Alien Planet?

25 novembre 2022

You’ve traveled thousands of light-years through interstellar star systems. And now you’re stranded on a planet you know nothing about. As long as you’ve got oxygen, water and food aboard your spaceship, you should stay inside and figure out what you’ve got going on around you. But your supplies wouldn’t last forever. So the clock would be ticking.

Épisode 50 - What If Earth’s Population Lived in the Same Skyscraper?

30 novembre 2022

With nearly eight billion people on the planet, things can feel pretty crowded. Let’s make things a bit tighter by housing every single person on Earth in one giant skyscraper. Pack up your things, we're all moving in together. But a building big enough for all eight billion of us doesn't exist yet. We're going to have to build one from the ground up.

Épisode 51 - What If You Traveled Through a Black Hole?

2 décembre 2022

Dark, mysterious and consuming everything around them, black holes will rip apart anything that passes their event horizons. But could there be more? What would happen if you fell into one of those monstrosities? How could you possibly travel through the black hole itself? And if you emerged on the other side, where would you end up?

Épisode 52 - What If Earth Reached Boiling Point for 5 Seconds?

7 décembre 2022

Get ready for some serious burns and the instantaneous death of organisms. Let’s turn up the heat and bring the entire planet to a boil for five whole seconds. How would this apocalyptic heat wave affect the environment? What would this do to all living things on Earth?

Épisode 53 - What If Humans Suddenly Went Extinct?

9 décembre 2022

Whether it was a global pandemic, a planet-wide volcanic event or a gigantic space rock, we reached the end of the line for our species. Every single human on Earth is gone. For good. While there’s no hope for humanity to make a comeback, we’d be leaving behind a lot of stuff. Cities. Highways. Waste. Time to see just how long it would take for the last remaining traces of human life to disappear.

Épisode 54 - Avatar’s Pandora in Real Life is Terrifying

14 décembre 2022

Avatar's Pandora is the wildest, most beautiful and most deadly place in the galaxy. I mean, who wouldn't want to live here? But how could the air be lethal? What elements could make your body glow? How could a gas giant destroy Pandora's surface? What is tidal heating? Why wouldn't you be able to watch Netflix?

Épisode 55 - What If Earth Was As Small as Pluto?

16 décembre 2022

It's a small world after all, because today, we're shrinking Earth to the size of Pluto. But if our planet was this tiny, how would it alter the atmosphere? Why would the Earth get hotter? And how would gravity affect our water supply? Would we be tidally locked to the Moon? Would our planet still be habitable?

Épisode 56 - Scientists Discovered Planets Even Better for Life Than Earth

21 décembre 2022

Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists have discovered a few worlds that could be even better for life. Behold, KOI 5715.01. Most of the contenders on our superhabitable planet list aren't the ones you could visit anytime soon. The top spot is held by one 3,000 light-years away from our Solar System. It exists in the Goldilocks zone of its star. So conditions wouldn’t be too hot or too cold for a key life-supporting ingredient to exist on its surface. Liquid water.

Épisode 57 - What If the Universe Is Conscious?

23 décembre 2022

This is our Universe, an ever-expanding network of stars and galaxies. And this is your brain. Don't they look eerily similar to one another? Why are they so alike? Could your brain be a mini-version of the cosmos? Or could the Universe actually be part of some larger consciousness?

Épisode 58 - What If Earth Orbited Jupiter?

28 décembre 2022

Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a struggle for survival. That’s because Earth is now a moon of Jupiter. Why are we being hit with so many asteroids? Could we survive in underground bunkers? And how much damage would Jupiter’s gravity cause?

Épisode 59 - What If There's Life on Kepler 69c?

30 décembre 2022

Thousands of light-years from Earth, there could be another planet hospitable to life. Kepler 69c. And you’re about to travel to this alien world to see that life with your own eyes. What would it be like to make this epic journey so far across the Universe? What kind of planet would you be likely to find upon arrival? And if you did discover life, what would it look like?

Épisode 60 - What If We Killed All Snakes?

4 janvier 2023

These slithering creatures can live in the smallest corners of your home and the darkest places you don’t dare visit. Well, not anymore, because today we’re killing every single snake on Earth. How would this snake hunt begin? Would we have to invent a bioweapon to finish the job? And why would things get medieval?

Épisode 61 - What If You Drank Only Water for the Rest of Your Life?

6 janvier 2023

Have you heard of something called water fasting? It's a type of fast that restricts everything except, well, water. Most people only water fast for 72 hours at most, but what if you did this for the rest of your life? You'd be fine, right? Haha, yeah. Not so much. What happens to your stomach without food? What damage will you do to your organs? And how many days can you last?

Épisode 62 - What If You Hibernated for 100 Years?

11 janvier 2023

Pack your bags because you’re traveling through space to see Alpha Centauri. There’s just one problem. It’s going to take 100 years. But is it possible to sleep through the trip? Get comfy because you’re going nighty-night for an entire century. What technology would you need? What would happen to your body while you’re asleep? And what sort of stuff could be waiting for you in the future?

Épisode 63 - What If Mars Was Half Land and Half Water?

13 janvier 2023

Mars didn’t always look like this. It may have once been covered in oceans. But what if we brought all the Martian water back and transformed the red planet into one that’s half blue? What would Mars look like if it was 50% land and 50% water? Where would we even find enough water to fill Martian oceans? And why might we have no choice but to nuke the red planet?

Épisode 64 - Where Will We Go After Earth Becomes Uninhabitable?

17 janvier 2023

Ever since humanity discovered that there are other places outside of Earth, we've thought about leaving it. On this episode of What If we're going to do just that. But where would we go? Is building a ring world in space a possibility? Maybe terraforming Venus is our best option for a sustainable life. If we were to leave earth and create something like a ring world, where would we find the materials to do so? And if we lived on Venus, how different would it be from Earth? But before we blast off, why would we ever want to leave?