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What The If?ONE Language For ALL?ONE Language For ALL? by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2020-06-1247 min
What The If?POWER From PEOPLE??? Bow To Our MATRIX Overlords!We answered the ringing telephone in The Matrix and on the line was the great filmmaker, game designer, and composer Robyn Miller with a sizzling good IF! Robyn asks "If you were an evil robot overlord and you wanted to use people as your power source... how'd ya do it? Can people be used as batteries?" Let's find out! Take the correct colored pill and we'll see you on the other side... of the IF!
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What The If?MEGASTRUCTURES! With Journalist & Science Fiction Author MATT WILLIAMSSCIENCE JOURNALIST and SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR Matt Williams joins us and asks: What’s the absolute biggest thing you could build… in the entire Universe! Have Aliens beaten us to it? How big does our civilization need to be to outgrow even MEGASTRUCTURES and build even bigger? Can we build GIGASTRUCTURES? What about PETASTRUCTURES? How about a GOOGLESTRUCTURE. We’re gonna need THOR’S HAMMER for this project, and his screwdriver and rivet maker, too! Let’s get to work and make some IF!
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MATT WILLIAMS has written many short stories and two full-length novels, all which take place within the same f...2020-01-1553 min
What The If?Can We Open A PUB On MARS? w/the Author of ALCOHOL IN SPACE, Chris Carberry!We're joined by Chris Carberry, the distinguished CEO of EXPLORE MARS and author of the awesome new book, ALCOHOL IN SPACE... Join us for a fun and fabulous Happy Hour on What The IF!
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CHRIS CARBERRY is the CEO and co-founder of Explore Mars, Inc. a nonprofit space advocacy organization that was created to advance the goal of sending humans to Mars within the next two decades. Carberry is a well-respected expert and influential director of strategic alliances in the space community and has been responsible for growing many partnerships, grants and sponsorships for leading industry organizations. Currently, as CEO...2020-01-0949 min
What The If?ALASTAIR REYNOLDS: Come Fly With Me... To MARS!HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our listeners around the WORLD! We’re celebrating with an encore presentation of one of our most popular episodes ever, with one of the greatest Science Fiction authors of all time, ALASTAIR REYNOLDS as our guest!
PRE-ORDER his exciting upcoming novel, BONE SILENCE at your local bookstore or on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0819W4456/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i10
Al brings a whopper of an IF, loosely inspired by one of his newest stories, "Different Seas" which he wrote for the new prophetic anthology, "TWELVE TOMORROWS" fr...2020-01-011h 02
What The If?LIGHTSABERS For Hands! It’s a STAR WARS If!Our listener MIGUEL from South Africa wrote in and asked us, “What The IF… we replaced our HANDS with LIGHTSABERS?”
This idea was so insane it sat on our list for a year and a half… as we SEARCHED OUR FEELINGS… waiting for the just the right moment to begin this wicked thought experiment..
We celebrate the conclusion of the Star Wars saga by diving into this great space-operatic question.
Happy Holidays to ALL our listeners AROUND THE WORLD, you folks are incredible! Keep the cards and letters coming’, it’s great to get to know ya.
Enjoy your new LIGHTSABERS, l...2019-12-2440 min
What The If?Welcome to LAMARCK-issic Park! No Darwins Allowed!What the if EVOLUTION were very DIFFERENT? Strap on your pith helmet, and lock the doors! OUR LISTENER Jon from Sweden wrote us and asked: What if Charlie “Eye of the Tiger” DARWIN was wrong and “Hoist Up The” Jean-B. LAMARCK was right? These two scholars had very different ideas about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, and especially about YOU and me’s!
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What The If?Planet NIBURU Crashes Into EARTH! With Astronomer BOB KINGIs there a DOOMSDAY PLANET named Nibiru heading our way? Nope!
But what the IF there was? We challenge astronomer & astrophotographer Bob King to play out the RAM-ifications of this Earth SHATTERING scenario, from which we learn a WHOPPING amount of real science!
BOB KING is the author of URBAN LEGENDS FROM SPACE: The Biggest Myths About Space Demystified, where he cuts through the fog of myth to bring the truth behind 51 celestial legends and exposes the scientific truth at their core. Emily Lakdawalla of The Planetary Society recommended it as one of the best books for kids of 2019. Buy...2019-12-121h 01
What The If?LEAP Into a QUANTUM COMPUTER!Do Electrons dream of having feet? WTIF you were an ELECTRON jogging through the hot circuits of a CLASSICAL COMPUTER and all of a sudden you lept into a QUANTUM COMPUTER? What does it look like inside the bizarre new machine? Why is it so COLD in here? What’s with all the signs posted everywhere saying “DON’T LOOK!”
The astounding final chapter of our journey through the EVOLUTION of COMPUTERS! Fear not if you haven’t heard the previous episodes, each one stands on it’s own!
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What The If?I Married A NEANDERTHAL - A SciFi Love StoryScience Fiction FILMMAKERS Carylanna Taylor & Jacob Okada bring us the IF of their new film, ANYA, a contemporary sci-fi love story about a couple whose determination to have a child leads them to a cutting-edge geneticist, an ancient outlier community hiding in plain sight in New York City, and ultimately, a life-changing question: are they willing to have a gene-edited baby, no matter the cost?
ANYA is the first narrative feature by anthropologist Carylanna Taylor, PhD (writer/producer), and documentary filmmaker Jacob Akira Okada (writer/director). Under their First Encounter Productions banner, Taylor and Okada have also produced the feature...2019-11-2658 min
What The If?Spelunking Deep Inside A SOLID STATE Brain!GOOGLE just announced that its' researchers have built a QUANTUM COMPUTER that has achieved... Quantum Supremacy. ACK!!! Do you feel like standing and cheering, or fleeing for your life? It's essential that we all learn how a quantum computer works, but...
Most of us don't even understand how a regular computer works! What's really going on inside that humming typewriter on your desk? What about the one that's heating up your lap? Or the one that's in your hand? WTiF you could go INSIDE your thinking machines and see WTF is going on? Strap on a rubber suit so you...2019-11-1951 min
What The If?Waltz INSIDE A Classical COMPUTER!GOOGLE just announced that its' researchers have built a QUANTUM COMPUTER that has achieved... Quantum Supremacy. ACK!!! Do you feel like standing and cheering, or fleeing for your life? It's essential that we all learn how a quantum computer works, but...
Most of us don't even understand how a regular computer works! What's really going on inside that humming typewriter on your desk? What about the one that's heating up your lap? Or the one that's in your hand? WTiF you could go INSIDE your thinking machines and see WTF is going on? Strap on a rubber suit so you...2019-11-1239 min
What The If?The AZTECS Were Awesome SEISMOLOGISTS - with Robin George Andrews!Ancient Science Secrets! DR. ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS returns with an incredible story of how modern day SEISMOLOGISTS are hunting through ancient AZTEC inscriptions, and the records of indigenous peoples around the world, to uncover a nearly FORGOTTEN HISTORY of the vibrating and violent EARTH!
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ROBIN ANDREWS is a doctor of experimental volcanology, a full-time freelance science journalist, a part-time photographer, a scientific consultant, an occasional lecturer, public speaker and explain-how-volcanoes-work TV guest, as well as a pending author of a rather curious book. He can tell you exactly how powerful the Death Star is, how cryovolcanoes on alien worlds work...2019-11-0538 min
What The If?Did VENUS Have VENUSIANS? w/Planetary Geologist KIRBY RUNYON!This week's show is ripped from the headlines! A study by Michael Way and Anthony Del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies reveals that VENUS may have been habitable for it's first THREE billion years! For some unknown reason, 750 million years ago, a catastrophic amount of carbon dioxide was released into the atmosphere. The hellish conditions consumed the entire planet, resurfacing it from pole to pole.
What the if... we found an archaeological site on Venus? Like Pompeii, a city that captured a record of it's in habitants attempting to survive a world that is erupting around them.
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What The If?If NASA Won MEGAMILLION$$$ - with CASEY DREIER from The PLANETARY SOCIETY!"No BUCKS, no Buck Rogers," says astronaut Gus Grissom in "The Right Stuff." So we ask, what the if... NASA got hundreds of billions more, or even TRILLIONS of dollars more in funding? Imagine it happened today! Can we build a SPACE UTOPIA worthy of the most optimistic science fiction... or are there some things money can't buy? Will we sing "Can't buy me love," or "Fly ME to the Moon"?
Our guide on this joyous spending spree is CASEY DREIER, the Chief Advocate & Senior Space Policy Adviser of The PLANETARY SOCIETY and an expert in how NASA gets funded...2019-10-2238 min
What The If?The COMET from Beyond!COMET BORISOV just showed up in our solar system, only the second INTERSTELLAR OBJECT known to visit us! What is it, where does it come from, where's it going and will Earthlings be able to study it before it vanishes forever?
What The IF you could RIDE the comet? That'd be a heck of a way to learn about it! This week we imagine being passengers exiled from our home world, sent on an eternal cometary road trip... and, wow, we've got a sight seeing trip about to happen like no other. Look at that fine yellow sun, and what's...2019-10-1546 min
What The If?All the TREES are GONE? With Kyle Crichton!What The IF... All the TREES were GONE? Would we still have air to breathe? Water to drink? Well don't ponder those questions too long because there's an AVALANCHE coming your way! Our guest Kyle Crichton is a filmmaker and an experienced backcountry snowboarder and skier who's new documentary, "LEAVE NICE TRACKS" is about the importance of keeping our planet, including the lovely wooded mountains of his home state Vermont, livable, breathable, and lovable.
KYLE CRICHTON has worked alongside some of the best documentary filmmakers of the day, including Barak Goodman, Morgan Spurlock, and Sandi Dubowski. He has contributed to...2019-10-0846 min
What The If?Let's CRISPR with Carl ZIMMER!Would you CRISPR your baby? The great science journalist Carl Zimmer, award winning columnist for the New York Times and author of thirteen (!) books joins us to imagine the steep up sides and the slippery down sides of the revolutionary technique for modifying genes. Fix those typos in your DNA! Write a better life for baby! And why not rewrite your own bad self? What The IF... you could?
CARL ZIMMER's newest book is "She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Power, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity". His column "Matter" appears each week in the New York Times. Zimmer’s writ...2019-10-0156 min
What The If?SEAN CARROLL: Phone Calls from MANY WORLDS!As you read these words, copies of you are being created.
Theoretical physicist SEAN CARROLL says the astonishing MANY WORLDS theory might be correct, and if it is… 5,000 times per second your reality is splitting into alternate universes. Like, a lot of em.
But Sean says... Don't Panic!
Sean is one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science and with his newest book, SOMETHING DEEPLY HIDDEN, he is rewriting the history of 20th century physics -- and urging physicists, and all of us, to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many...2019-09-2447 min
What The If?111 - Is There GOLD In Them ASTEROIDS!Listener Daniel asks: WTiF we could get rich from drilling for gold… in space?
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What The If?110 - Inter-Galactic MAILBAG!Once again, our listener mail bag is exploding! Our fans, aka our #SuperIFFers discuss our most mind-blowing shows and share their own mind-bending IF's! What the IF... you could hang out with the smartest, funniest, science-y-ist audience in the galaxy? You can! Listen now and FEEL THE IF!
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EINSTEIN'S WAR by our very own MATT STANLEY is on sale now! The Washington Post says "Stanley is a storyteller par excellence." A starred review recipient from KIRKUS, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, and BOOKLIST. https://www.penguinrandomhouse...2019-09-1143 min
What The If?109 - CONQUER the SOLAR SYSTEM with Matt Williams!Science journalist and Science Fiction author Matt Williams joins us and asks: What the IF humanity conquered the entire solar system, inhabiting every planet, moon, asteroid, nook, cranny and whatever else we could latch onto… and hang on? What in all the worlds would this society look like? How many new forms of bodies, new cultures, new languages, new levels of snobbery by Earthlings? The immense distances would challenge us in ways that we never, ever have experienced. Can humanity survive living so far from it’s mother? Can mother survive with all her kids changing their body types? What the...2019-09-0349 min
What The If?108 - The HELIOPAUSE That Refreshes - with Kirby "NASA Man" Runyon!What the IF you could travel to the very EDGE of the SOLAR SYSTEM... and beyond? What would you see when you looked BACKWARDS? What would happen when you encountered the river of energized particles swirling through our galaxy? We're joined by KIRBY "Nasa Man" RUNYON, one of the scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab who works on the New Horizons mission that visited PLUTO and Ultima Thule. When it launched, New Horizons was the fastest object ever rocketed into space... and today, Kirby takes us even further! We strap ourselves aboard a mission that NASA is conceptualizing...2019-08-2742 min
What The If?107 - Land A Man On The EARTH! - with Nancy AtkinsonIt's Opposite Apollo Day! In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the first landing on the Moon, our special guest today is Nancy Atkinson from Universe Today! Her amazing new book is "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Mission." We ask: What The IF we lived on the Moon and had to send the first mission to EARTH?
This lunacy gives rise, as with all our IFs, to an amazing about of information about the REAL Apollo mission, and the science, engineering and chutzpah it took to do it. The only thing that could have been...2019-08-2044 min
What The If?106 - What The MONKEY? Part 2 of Our TWIS Special!Our TWIS Special, Part TWO!
TWIS the IF? What The TWIS? You put your science in my what! It's a special, double stuffed, super combo show. Dr. Kiki invited us to bring the IF to her long-running public radio show and podcast, This Week In Science.
In Part 1 we got some science up in the NEWS! Dr. Kiki, Justin & Blair invite Philip & Matt to join the insightful, hilarious and very, very bizarre news stories that fly around the roundtable this week.
Now In Part 2: Join us as we take the NEWS to the IF! There was a really, really weird...2019-08-131h 09
What The If?105 - What The KIKI? Part 1 of Our TWIS Special!Our TWIS Special, Part ONE!
TWIS the IF? What The TWIS? You put your science in my what! It's a special, double stuffed, super combo show. Dr. Kiki invited us to bring the IF to her long-running public radio show and podcast, This Week In Science.
Here in Part 1 we get some science up in the NEWS! Dr. Kiki, Justin & Blair invite Philip & Matt to join the insightful, hilarious and very, very bizarre news stories that fly around the roundtable this week.
In Part 2 join us as we take the NEWS to the IF! There was a really, really weird...2019-08-1353 min
What The If?104 - Walking on IO with Robin Andrews!DR. ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS, science writer for The NY Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and many more, joins us with an IF that'll keep you on your feet: What The IF we could walk on Jupiter's ultra volcanic moon, IO? Would you walk on a hot pizza? If so, you're ready for the trip! The views of Jupiter would be spectacular, but bring your kevlar umbrella because lava's gonna come flyin' out of the sky. One of the most spectacular places in the solar system, Io is also terribly mysterious, bizarre, and confusing to even the greatest scientists of our...2019-07-3058 min
What The If?103 - Alastair Reynolds!Best selling author ALASTAIR REYNOLDS is our guest! He's Philip's favorite author on the planet and one of the world's most popular Science Fiction writers.
Al brings a whopper of an IF, loosely inspired by one of his newest stories, "Different Seas" which he wrote for the new prophetic anthology, "TWELVE TOMORROWS" from MIT Press.
WTiF Elon Musk sent a bunch of dummy bots to the red planet into whose bodies we could transport ourselves, via telepresence, and explore from the comfort of our own home? It's just like being there!
But WTiF there's other bots being run around the...2019-07-231h 05
What The If?102 - WTiF Apollo Never Stopped? Encore Presenation With FRASER CAIN!In honor of the 50th Anniversary of APOLLO 11, we're featuring an encore of our episode with FRASER CAIN -- veteran space journalist and publisher of UNIVERSE TODAY!
Fraser asks: WTiF we NEVER STOPPED going to the MOON? Imagine! By now we would have already spent FIFTY YEARS traveling to, and building on The Moon. What incredible things would we have achieved by now? What does this alternative today look like? Where can we fly? What can we see? Let's IF all the way TO THE MOON, and beyond!
Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today and the co-host of...2019-07-1645 min
What The If?101 - Planet of POISON!Pollution run AMOK! Imagine if no one -- no one at all -- tried to stop the poisoning of our land, water and air?
Our listener Daniel asks: What The IF the Environmental Protection Agency were never, ever, ever created? What would America look like, smell like, and taste like?
Our most pungent IF yet!
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What The If?100 - Paul McAULEY Shrinks The SUN!The incredible Science Fiction author PAUL McAULEY joins us to celebrate episode 100!
With a preview of the science behind his upcoming novel, WAR OF THE MAPS, Paul asks: What The IF we could save the Earth from the inevitable death of the Sun?
It's gonna be a lotta work! First we've gotta MOVE the Earth outward when the Sun expands into a RED GIANT, then we need to HUDDLE UP close when the Sun shrinks into a WHITE DWARF.
Yep, Paul treats us to some EPIC ENGINEERING and ultra vivid SOLAR SCIENCE.
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What The If?99 - Living INSIDE The Big BANGListener Bob from Virginia asks what it would be …2019-06-2550 minWhat The If?98 - OWN Your Own BRAINListener Jon from Sweden ascends to the rank of S…2019-06-1847 minWhat The If?97 - Spacetime GOGGLES100 years ago, the British Astronomer Arthur Eddi…2019-06-1148 minWhat The If?96 - How To Cook With A Star Trek REPLICATORA brand new, super fun and mostly delicious episo…2019-06-0745 minWhat The If?95 - ASTROLOGY??? Heaven Help Us!Astrology is super complicated and totally crazy.…2019-05-2956 minWhat The If?94 - MEAT Vs. The WORLDWhat the IF everyone in the world STOPPED eating …2019-05-2057 minWhat The If?93 - EINSTEIN'S WAR - Part Two - With Author MATT STANLEYMatt has an amazing new book! Here in part two of…2019-05-1439 min
What The If?92 - EINSTEIN'S WAR - Part One - With Author MATT STANLEYMatt has an amazing new book! We dive into Professor Stanley's incredible story about how, while living through hunger, freezing and fear, the unknown and unheard of Professor Albert Einstein became... EINSTEIN.
What The IF, we ask: World War I never, ever happened? Would Einstein have solved his Theory of Relativity sooner -- or, perhaps, NEVER AT ALL?
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-- Philip & Matt2019-05-0744 minWhat The If?91 - Standing TALL On A Dwarf PLANET - Visit PLUTO With Kirby Runyon!KIRBY RUNYON, science team affiliate on the NEW H…2019-04-3047 min
What The If?90 - VOLCANOES Like To Party - With Volcanologist Karen Holmberg!Archaeologist and self-described Volcano Fetishist Dr. Karen Holmberg LOVES Volcanos… so we make her dream come true: What The IF you could invite ALL THE VOLCANOES in the world to a COCKTAIL PARTY! Dr. Holmberg takes us around to meet all her favorite exploding mountains, and the people who live at their feet, and we learn how each giant has it’s own personality. As the night progresses, and the CRYOVOLCANO bartenders pour ever more deliciously dangerous drinks… we dive deeper and learn the SECRETS OF VOLCANOES. Put on your lampshades and let’s join the life of this RUN FOR YOUR...2019-04-2343 minWhat The If?89 - Fraser Cain - WTiF Apollo Never Stopped!We're super honored to be joined this week by an …2019-04-1645 minWhat The If?88 - Sci - Fi Author, DAN MOREN - "What The IF ENCRYPTION Runs Amok?"We're honored to be joined this week by the aweso…2019-04-091h 08What The If?87 - Galactic MAILBAG!Our cup of listener mail overfloweth! This week: …2019-04-0352 minWhat The If?86 - The Science Of NOTHING - Ness!Our listener, the awesome Super IFFer Bill Prokop…2019-03-2643 minWhat The If?85 - WTiF NASA Asked YOU For Help? - #NASAsocial At KSC & The Planetary Society's DAY OF ACTIONWhat the IF... Big ol' NASA asked little ol' YOU …2019-03-1946 minWhat The If?84 - Planet Of The Identical TWINS!Maya and Zoe are TWINS, and that's only the begin…2019-03-1157 minWhat The If?83 - COLD Blooded PeopleLIZARDS are cold blooded creatures. What the IF..…2019-02-2648 minWhat The If?82 - CETACEAN INVASION! WTiF Whales Take Back The Land?The amazing science educator and cetacean researc…2019-02-1952 minWhat The If?81 - Love Thy MOONWe celebrate the LUNAR NEW YEAR and VALENTINE'S D…2019-02-1243 minWhat The If?80 - HAGFISH - Champion Of The SLIMER BOWL!The HAGFISH, little known, little respected... gr…2019-02-0251 minWhat The If?79 - The Notorious BIG... BANG!Special Guest ASTRONOMER Brian Keating returns, w…2019-01-2849 minWhat The If?78 - PIGEON VISIONThe MYSTERY behind the EYES that watch over our c…2019-01-2245 minWhat The If?77 - Let's Pretend We're WHALES! Dr. Vanessa Pirotta Turns Us Into Super Smart CetaceansThe amazing science educator and cetacean researc…2019-01-1655 minWhat The If?76 - Now We Know How Many BRAINS It Takes To Fill The Albert HallA couple of weeks ago we explored PARALLEL UNIVER…2019-01-0739 minWhat The If?75 - WTiF You Could See EARTH RISE... With Your Own Eyes?Happy New Year, dear IFFers!!! A joyous episode g…2019-01-0145 minWhat The If?74 - Bubbling Brew Of PARALLEL UNIVERSE StewOur listener & Super IFFer Jeff from Nashville as…2018-12-2553 minWhat The If?73 - It's An ARTHUR C. CLARKE Christmas!For our Christmas Special, our devoted listener M…2018-12-1850 minWhat The If?72 - How To Tell People EARTH IS MELTING Without Killing The PartyListener, and Super IFFer, Amira Youseff wrote in…2018-12-1150 minWhat The If?71 - Does A Watched PLANET Ever BOIL?Today we take up another fabulous -- and dastardly -- suggestion from our audience!
Super IFFER Mike Holland sent an email to our hungry feedback@whattheif.com mailbox and asked.... How did we come to know that CLIMATE CHANGE is really happening, and what it will do to our world?
Scientists agree: our atmosphere is heating up and something wicked this way comes. But it wasn't always this way, predicting globally is a skill we've only recently developed... but how??? And WHO was the first scientist to notice? Wasn't there a fear a while back...2018-12-0400 minWhat The If?71 - Does A Watched PLANET Ever BOIL?Today we take up another fabulous -- and dastardl…2018-12-0444 min
What The If?70 - Victory Over GRAVITY!70 - Victory Over GRAVITY! by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2018-11-2751 minWhat The If?70 - Victory Over GRAVITY!70 - Victory Over GRAVITY! by Philip Shane & Matt…2018-11-2751 minWhat The If?70 - Victory Over GRAVITY!70 - Victory Over GRAVITY! by Philip Shane & Matt…2018-11-2751 min
What The If?69 - Dummies VS Gravity!69 - Dummies VS Gravity! by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2018-11-2042 minWhat The If?69 - Dummies VS Gravity!69 - Dummies VS Gravity! by Philip Shane & Matt S…2018-11-2042 minWhat The If?68 - Are We Entertaining The MARTIANS?IF we were Martians, looking at the Earth with ou…2018-11-1454 minWhat The If?68 - Are We Entertaining The MARTIANS?IF we were Martians, looking at the Earth with our telescopes… would we know there’s LIFE there? If so, how would we know? Could we have watched humanity evolve? Would we see the humans coming to US? Run for the mons!2018-11-1454 minWhat The If?67 - KEPLER'S Planets & EGOMANIACAL Mathematicians!This week, the ground-breaking, sky-breaking, sta…2018-11-0751 minWhat The If?67 - KEPLER'S Planets & EGOMANIACAL Mathematicians!This week, the ground-breaking, sky-breaking, sta…2018-11-0751 minWhat The If?66 - Danger, SLOW BRAIN Ahead! TIME DILATION From Head To ToeWhen scientists discovered that our brain communi…2018-10-3128 minWhat The If?65 - Can You Trust Your Family ROBOT?Attack of the FRIENDLY Robots! Will Robots really…2018-10-2633 min
What The If?64 - Physicist CLIFFORD JOHNSON Peers Deep Into A BLACK HOLE And Finds...?Superstar Theoretical Physicist CLIFFORD JOHNSON, author of the incredible graphic novel, “THE DIALOGUES: Conversations About The Nature Of The Universe” joins us for a very special show. He asks us to imagine… WTiF our entire solar system drifted TOO CLOSE (!!!) to a BLACK HOLE? What would it be like to be on Earth when it crosses the EVENT HORIZON? Would half the planet disappear? Would time stop? Would we find ourselves in a place where NOTHING IS AS WE KNOW IT? Better bring a flashlight on this one, it’s spooky, it’s dark, it’s amazing.2018-10-181h 15What The If?63 - Astronomy SMELLS - The Art & Science Of Data VisualizationOn Feb 22, 2017, astronomers announced four addit…2018-10-0830 minWhat The If?62 - GHOSTS!What the IF... We could get scientific evidence o…2018-10-0443 minWhat The If?61 - FLAT EARTH YouTube LIVE Special! - Joining Forces With The NonSequitur ShowPhilip & Matt were honored to be invited onto the…2018-09-231h 42
What The If?60 - See The RADIO WAVES All Around YOU! The Science & Wonder Of Electromagnetic Fields60 - See The RADIO WAVES All Around YOU! The Science & Wonder Of Electromagnetic Fields by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2018-09-1747 min
What The If?49 - OUMUAMAUA Has It's Eyes On YOU49 - OUMUAMAUA Has It's Eyes On YOU by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2018-07-0352 min
What The If?49 - OUMUAMAUA Has It's Eyes On YOU49 - OUMUAMAUA Has It's Eyes On YOU by Philip Shane & Matt Stanley2018-07-0352 min
What The If?48 - The Girl Scouts Make A STARGATE48 - The Girl Scouts Make A STARGATE by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2018-06-2745 minWhat The If?48 - The Girl Scouts Make A STARGATE48 - The Girl Scouts Make A STARGATE by Philip Sh…2018-06-2745 minWhat The If?47 - The Early Bird Gets The WORMHOLE47 - The Early Bird Gets The WORMHOLE by Philip S…2018-06-2030 min
What The If?47 - The Early Bird Gets The WORMHOLE47 - The Early Bird Gets The WORMHOLE by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2018-06-2030 min
What The If?46 - WTiF There's ANIMALS On MARS? Cute Ones!46 - WTiF There's ANIMALS On MARS? Cute Ones! by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2018-06-121h 02
What The If?43 - The World According To Greek Weirdos43 - The World According To Greek Weirdos by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2018-05-2339 minWhat The If?42 - SuperMegaUltraHyperConnectedWORLD!42 - SuperMegaUltraHyperConnectedWORLD! by Philip…2018-05-1643 min
What The If?42 - SuperMegaUltraHyperConnectedWORLD!42 - SuperMegaUltraHyperConnectedWORLD! by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2018-05-1643 min
What The If?41 - M.I.T., The Mysterious Inter-Terrestrial41 - M.I.T., The Mysterious Inter-Terrestrial by Philip Shane, Matt Stanley, Gabrielle Paniccia2018-05-0950 minWhat The If?40 - DON'T FLIP OFF THE FRICTIONProfessor Matt returns to the WTIF Studios to dro…2018-05-0243 min
What The If?34 - Struttin' Down QUANTUM StreetWhat The IF we experienced our world operating by the BIZARRO rules of QUANTUM MECHANICS? Matt is holding up an umbrella and urging us to join him on the street corner, where we'll team up by the buddy system, walk through the gate and enter QUANTUM STREET... where the ordinary is extraordinary. Grab your camera and your towel and we'll say the three magic words "What The IF!" and off we go!2018-03-0847 min
What The If?26 - Dance For Us, Human! DANCE!Today we solve, once and for all, one of humanity's greatest mysteries: WHY are the Aliens TEASING US??? Plan for the best, prepare for the worst, people of Earth! Professor Matt is back from ICELAND with new insights and a whole new fascinating barrel of SCIENCE and FACTS for us to hold and taste and throw in the air and dance among their glittering rays. And we try to talk to the creatures of the SEA! What The IF we survive this experiment, of which we may be the subjects??? Turn it on. Turn it up. Dive in!2018-01-1144 min
What The If?25 - The "T" in "E.T." stands for TEASE. Arghhhh!PART THREE OF THE WTiF UFO CHRONICLES. Philip rubs his hands together and plots how to score an interview with one of the aliens who've abducted him. We urge ALL CITIZENS to take one for the team (EARTH!) and get some photos of your travels on a UFO. Our listener Jay, who wrote in to tell of his journeys to "the most beautiful places in the Universe" (!!!) has made us so envious we're more green than a Martian. Were the places more beautiful than, say... Paris??? Or Iceland??? Or Nabu???
PLUS more secrets from behind the scenes of what it's...2018-01-0453 min
What The If?24 - Alien Abduction: PRO TIPS!DEAR ALIEN ABDUCTEES: Please help us out, take pictures! Also, can we get AIRLINES to pick us up at home, while we're sleeping, too??? It'd be so much more CONVENIENT. And we also have some REQUESTS for ALIENS WHO ARE ABDUCTING PEOPLE: what's a poor SKEPTIC gotta do to get picked up??? 'Cause that would be awesome, ok, thanks.
Also, PRO TIPS for potential abductees. HELP US OUT, KIDS! Sleep with your camera in your pocket! Crucial information for EVERYONE in this special holiday edition (!!!) of WTiF, with your host, Philip Shane, flying solo, without a SEATBELT but with a...2017-12-291h 42
What The If?21 - Welcome to FLAT EARTH, Safety Not Guaranteed• Email us feedback@whattheif.com, let us know you're listening & share your thoughts!
FLAT EARTH: words the strike fear into the heart of every fact loving, rational thinking human. To imagine it is to fall into the depths of insanity, stupidity, comedy, tragedy. Oh, the madness! And yet (WTF?!!!!) people are all chitty chatty these days about the Flat Earth theory. Inexplicably (seriously, WTF?!!!!) basketball players are at the forefront of the Flat Earth crusade... I mean, you'd think that they'd want the world to be shaped like a basketball.
Ok, breathe, breathe, flat earth is a joke of an idea...2017-12-0745 min
What The If?6 - When Logic Lets You Down6 - When Logic Lets You Down by Philip Shane & Matt Stanley2017-09-0435 min
What The If?5 - Fear The Cookies & Tea Apocalypse5 - Fear The Cookies & Tea Apocalypse by Philip Shane & Matt Stanley2017-08-1843 min
What The If?4 - How Many Brains Does It Take To Fill The Albert Hall?4 - How Many Brains Does It Take To Fill The Albert Hall? by Philip Shane & Matt Stanley2017-07-2340 min
What The If?3 - Time Dilation, From Head To Toe3 - Time Dilation, From Head To Toe by Philip Shane & Matt Stanley2017-07-1831 min
What The If?2 - Attack Of The Therapy Bots2 - Attack Of The Therapy Bots by Philip Shane & Matt Stanley2017-07-0332 min
What The If?1 - Astronomy Smells1 - Astronomy Smells by Philip Shane & Matt Stanley2017-06-1934 min