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What If, discussed.
Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson of Mighty Trains with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of our most popular What If videos. Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the...
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38 episodesWhat If You Explored the Deepest Points of Earth? - with George Kourounis
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What If You Only Ate Sugar for a Month? - with Gary Taubes
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What If We Settled on an Exoplanet? - with Didier Queloz
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What If You Rode a Balloon to Space? - with Taber MacCallum
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What If a Tornado Hit an Active Volcano? - with George Kourounis
So What If a tornado hit an active volcano? To be honest, we have no idea. But you know who might be the only person on Earth who knows? It's the host...
What If You Never Aged? - with Jamie Metzl
What If you could live forever? Since the days of Ponce De Leon and the search for the Fountain of Youth, human beings have pursued longer lives, doin...
What If We Lived in a Closed Biosphere? - with Jane Poynter
In 1991, 8 people walked into the first ever biosphere project, committed to live there, grow their own food, recycle their waste and sustain themselv...
What If You Could See Through a Black Hole? - with Pr. Clifford Johnson
What do we really know about black holes? We've only recently even gotten a visual of an actual black hole, so not a lot. But although we can now see...
What If You Were Addicted to Energy Drinks? - Danielle Robertson Rath
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What If "Among Us" Was Real Life? - Liana Ruppert
Everyone once in awhile a game comes along that transcends genre, subjective preferences or styles and just blows us up in a way that takes it from "g...
What If Our Solar System Orbited a Black Hole? - with Pr. Clifford Johnson
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What If We Were on Lockdown for the Entire Winter? - with Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal
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What If Matter Was Replaced by Antimatter? - with Liz Landau
Have you ever wondered if there are parallel universes? Earlier this year, a NASA study suggested there might be another universe where time goes back...
What If an Octopus Was Your Teacher? - with Pippa Ehrlich
What do we really know about octopuses? For starters, they don't have 8 tentacles...they're called arms. Did you know they had 3 hearts? 9 brains? And...
What If Jupiter Never Existed? - with Steve Levin
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What If We've Already Made First Contact with Aliens? - with Andrew Siemion
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What If There Is Life on Venus? - with Sara Seager
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What If We Blew Up an Asteroid? - Guest: Bill Nye
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What If the Universe is Bouncing? - Guest: Anna Ijjas
It's easy to forget that long standing scientific theories are in fact, theories and therefore are subject to revision and change as new information c...
What If We Became a Type II Civilization? - Guest: Michio Kaku
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What If You Got Stuck in a Time Loop? - Guests: Danny Rubin and Ryan Wasserman
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What If We Had to Evacuate Earth? - Guest: Bill Nye
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What If You Lived on a Super Earth? - Guest: Dr. Jack Madden
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What If Your Teacher Were A.I.? - Guests: Dr. Joanna Bryson and Dr. Jutta Treviranus
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What If Humans Are Future Versions of Aliens? - Guest: Dr. Mike Masters
So imagine that all of the reports of UFO's, visitations and alien abductions were true...but sort of not? Confused? How about instead of "aliens" bei...
What If You Lived in Ancient Egypt? - Guests: Dr. Salima Ikram and Dr. Bob Brier
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to have lived like a Pharaoh? Walked like an Egyptian? Reached the top of the Pyramid? Ancient Egypt cont...
What If the Sun Dimmed Down? - Guest: Emily Calandrelli
We all know we depend on the Sun, but how much? And what happens to us if the Sun goes down...on us?! Join Peter and Richard and science communicator...
What If We Lived In Space? - Guests: Dr. Ronke Olabisi and Jerry Stone
What if we lived in space? Could we build a Bernal Sphere, an O’Neill Cylinder or a Stanford Torus? Why would we choose to live on a space habitat? Jo...
What If Your Brain Was Twice Its Size? - Guests: Michio Kaku and Rita Carter
Does size really matter when it comes to our brains? Does a bigger brain mean a smarter person? And how much do we really know about our brains? Michi...
What If We Lived 50 Years Into the Future? - Guest: Steven Kotler
Mark Twain once said...Well, Mark Twain said a lot of things but in this particular context, his "it's difficult to make predictions, particularly abo...
What If We Discovered Alien Life? - Guest: Jill Tarter
There's perhaps no bigger "What If" that will ever be asked. As long as we have been able to look up at the stars and understand the vastness of space...
What If We Became Cyborgs? - Guest: Neil Harbisson
What has long been explored in science-fiction as well as prophesied as the next step in the evolution of human beings by "Singularity" proponents lik...
What If We Settled on the Moon? - Guest: Alex Hall
Do you consider yourself a pioneer? An explorer perhaps? Would you "go boldly where no one has gone before" - well, almost no one. And would you stay?...
What If Half the Earth’s Population Was Wiped Out? - Guest: Paul Ehrlich
What has most recently became known in some circles as "Thanos Theory", many people have wondered, especially in times of serious concerns about clima...
What If You Fell Into a Pool of Liquid Nitrogen? - Guest: Bob McDonald
One of the most popular "What If" videos with over 75 million views, "What If you fell into a pool of liquid nitrogen takes us through the fascinating...
What If We Had a Worldwide Pandemic? - Guest: Sonia Shah
Each week on “What If Discussed”, we explore the big hypotheticals and ponder the possibilities. This week is different. With “What If we had a worldw...
What If We Lived in a Galactic Zoo? – Guest: Douglas Vakoch of METI
Do you ever feel like you're being watched... by aliens? The "Zoo Hypothesis" as it is known in science circles speculates that some form of advanced,...
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We ask some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of our most popular What If videos. Wh...