А что, если?.. Научные ответы на абсурдные гипотетические вопросы - Рэндалл Манро

Свободное падение

Super Mario Bros. – Speedrun level 1–1 [370]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGQGvAwqpbE

Sprint ring cycle

http://www1.sprintpcs.com/support/HelpCenter.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=73092#4

Glide data

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=577711#577711

Jump. Fly. Land // Air & Space

http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/Jump-Fly-Land.html

Prof. Dr. Herrligkoffer. The East Pillar of Nanga Parbat // The Alpine Journal (1984).

The Guestroom – Dr. Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan

http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2010/08/24/2991588.htm

Highest BASE jump: Valery Rozov breaks Guinness world record

http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/sports/highest_BASE_jump_Valery_Rozov_breaks_Guinness_world_record_213415.html

Dean Potter. Above It All

http://www.tonywingsuits.com/deanpotter.html

Спарта

Если верить парню из Интернета, Энди Любенски: Andy Lubien-ski. The Longbow

http://www.pomian.demon.co.uk/longbow.htm

Осушить океаны

Если экстраполировать максимальное давление, которое выдерживает обшивка корпуса ледокола

http://www.iacs.org.uk/document/public/Publications/Unified_requirements/PDF/UR_I_pdf410.pdf

An experimental study of critical submergence to avoid free-surface vortices at vertical intakes

http://www.leg.state.mn.us/docs/pre2003/other/840235.pdf

Осушить океаны, часть II

D. L. Santiago et al. Mar s climate and outflow events

http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov

D. L. Santiago et al. Cloud formation and water transport on Mars after major outflow events // 43rd Planetary Science Conference (2012).

Maggie Fox. Mars May Not Have Been Warm o r Wet

http://rense.com/general32/marsmaynothave.htm

Уникальные твиты

Hendrik Willem Van Loon. The Story of Mankind

http://books.google.com/books?id=RskHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Counting Characters

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/counting-characters

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf

LEGO-мост

How tall can a Lego tower get?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20578627

Investigation Into the Strength of Lego Technic Beams and Pin Connections

http://eprints.usq.edu.au/20528/1/Lostroh_LegoTesting_2012.pdf

Total value of property in London soars to £1.35 trn

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/total-value-of-property-in-london-soars-to-135trn-8779991.html

Случайный чих

Cari Nieren berg. The Perils of Sneezing, ABC News. Dec. 22, 2008

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=73092&page=1

Bischoff Werner E., Miche lle L. Wallis, Brian K. Tucker, Beth A. Re-boussin, Michael A. Pfaller, Frederick G. Hayden, and Robert J. Sherertz. ‘Gesundheit!’ Sneezing, Common Colds, Allergies, and Staphylococcus aureus Dispersion // J Infect Dis. (2006), 194 (8). P. 1 119–1126. doi:10.1086/507908.

Annual Rates of Lightning Fatalities by Country

http://www.vaisala.com/Vaisala%20Documents/Scientific%20papers/Annual_rates_of_lightning_fatalities_by_country.pdf

Расширяющаяся Земля

Wu, X., X. Collilieux, Z. Altamimi, B. L. A. Vermeersen, R. S. Gross, and I. Fukumori. Accuracy of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame origin and Earth expansion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38,

L13304. 2011. doi:10.1029/2011GL047450: In conclusion, no statistically significant present expansion rate is detected by our study within the current measurement uncertainty of 0.2 mm yr-1.

http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3A72ed93c0-d13e-427c8c5f-f013b737750e/

Lawrence Grybosky. Thermal Expansion and Contraction

http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/courses/ce584/concrete/library/cracking/thermalexpansioncontraction/thermalexpcontr.htm

Sasselov, Dimitar D. The life of super-Earths: How the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet. New York: Basic Books, 2012.

Franz, R. M. and P. C. Schutte. Barometric hazards within the context of deep-level mining // The Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Plummer, H. C. Note on the motion about an attracting centre of slowly increasing mass // Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 66. P. 83