What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second?

From xkcd’s What If?. Get a copy of What If? 2 and Randall’s other books at: https://xkcd.com/books More serious answers to absurd questions at: https://what-if.xkcd.com/ This question comes from Rebecca, who asks: if you suddenly began rising steadily at one foot per second, how exactly would you die? Would you freeze or suffocate first? Or…

What if you made a jetpack using rifles?

From xkcd’s What If?. Get a copy of What If? 2 and Randall’s other books at: https://xkcd.com/books More serious answers to absurd questions at: https://what-if.xkcd.com/ This question comes from Rob, who asks: is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing rifles? I was sort of surprised to find that the answer was yes!…