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* A number of the What Ifs are hilarious due to the completely insane, but perfectly logical, conclusions (and, sometimes, the sheer insanity of what is being logically considered in the first place).
** [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/ Everybody Jump]]. A rather simple question of kinematics becomes [[spoiler:a Class 1 Planetary ApocalypseHow.]]
** [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ Relativistic Baseball]]. A question about pitching [[spoiler: nukes a city]].
*** of course, in that case, the question wasn't exactly straightforward. Still, the conclusion, in context, is arguably one of the funniest things on the site; [[spoiler: A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered "hit by pitch", and would be eligible to advance to first base.]]
** [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/4/ A Mole of Moles]]. No insane ending, but it nevertheless involves [[spoiler: a moon-sized ball of meat and fur that periodically erupts in plumes of boiling guts]].
** [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/6/ Glass Half Empty]]. The standard optimist-or-pessimist question [[spoiler: leaves people with shards of broken glass embedded in their faces]].
*** "Free glass!"
** [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/10/ Cassini]]. A detailed and thoughtful exploration of climatic interactions concludes with [[spoiler: ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion'' being attacked by fire ants and alligators]].
** [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/13/ Laser Pointer]]. A question on light ends with [[spoiler: the moon becoming a rocket engine and Earth suffering a Class 4 Planetary ApocalypseHow.]]
** [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/19/ Tie Vote]]. A question about elections ends with this gem, with an image to match:
--->...when one of the Florida electors reaches into the hat to draw a name, [[spoiler:he or she is struck by a falling cocaine bale, the hat is hurled away within the next few seconds by a tornado, and the elector is obliterated minutes later by a meteorite impact.]]
** [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/12/ Raindrop]] features some absolutely brilliant bits of wordplay, one in each of the last two paragraphs:
---> Fear reigns supreme as the world fears rain supreme.
---> ...and the unexplained meteorological phenomenon is simply dubbed a “Skrillex Storm”—because, in the words of one researcher, “It had one hell of a drop.”
** [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/24/ Model Rockets]]'s punchline is a CallBack to [[http://xkcd.com/1133/ Up Goer Five]].

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