Drop telescopes along Earth's orbit for a year and boom - you've built a camera 120 million times more powerful than anything we have! Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

The moon makes a terrible roommate but an excellent telescope platform for spotting alien continents and ice caps! Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

Einstein rings aren't jewelry - they're natural magnifying glasses made of bent spacetime that let us see impossible things! Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

From 21-foot telescopes to planet-sized cameras, discover why bigger is always better when you're trying to spot aliens! Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

No more sweating means everyone walks around panting like dogs with their tongues out during important meetings. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

Cities would install water pipeline infrastructure so everyone can live knee-deep in their living rooms to stay cool. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

Portable misters become as essential as smartphones when your body can't naturally cool itself anymore. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

Your molecules are literally zipping away to Nevada right now carrying your body heat with them. Science is wild. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

Apple helps ALS sufferer to use an iPad in a demonstration of thought control (via Amber Mac newsletter): appleinsider.com/articles/25/08…

Elephants have big ears for cooling and we'd need giant handheld fans the size of palm fronds. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

Swamp coolers everywhere! Cloth hanging in water that evaporates to steal heat from the air around you. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

Rich people get dry homes while working families live in water-filled houses in this sweat-free world. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 because two-week-long lunar nights make solar panels pretty useless for powering moon bases. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

The actual nuclear reactor is only the size of a truck but needs massive cooling infrastructure because apparently even space gets too hot when you're splitting atoms. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

Scientists at Los Alamos literally held uranium chunks apart with a screwdriver in an experiment called "tickling the dragon's tail" until one day the screwdriver slipped. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

Plutonium feels like holding a warm rabbit according to Manhattan Project scientists, which is both fascinating and deeply unsettling information. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

Your moon base job could be nuclear reactor operator, spending your days adjusting control rods while Homer Simpson eats donuts in the background. Listen now at WhatTheIF.com

AI slop moving up the ranks on YouTube (via Amber Mac newsletter): theguardian.com/technology/202…

That may be true, but you can’t beat my Nyankochin. 🤭 AI猫にゃんこちん youtube.com/@ai67030?si=Mh… via YouTube

You’ve got (no more) mail! "AOL will discontinue its dial-up service on September 30, officially marking the end of an era in internet history" (via Amber Mac newsletter): engadget.com/computing/aols…