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http://youtu.be/Y6iutoPU4fY Populations of people are already fleeing climate change across the globe. In North America, the Alaskan village of Newtok was faced with a mega slump caused by melting permafrost. As the layers of frozen soil melted, the ground became unstable. Homes started to sink and crumble. Coastal cities across the globe are planning how they will keep the sea away as it rises. One solution? Just move the city. How much would it cost? How do you lift a building? Where is this already happening? How severe can coastal flooding be? Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-you-moved-an-entire-city/ Questions or concerns? Contact us at https://underknown.com/contact/ Get our 100 best episodes in one mind-blowing book: http://bit.ly/ytc-the-what-if-100-book ...

http://youtu.be/xmx1kaEnkIE "I ain't afraid of no ghost!" Of course not. You're in the Ghostbusters universe. With a quick stomp, demons are as good as gone. So how would life change if you could bust ghosts in real life? Would you need to reinvent nuclear power? Or just a whole lot of money? And could you get slimed? 00:00 Real Life Ghostbusters 00:48 Using Science to Catch Ghosts 01:45 Cyclotron 03:24 Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-you-could-trap-a-ghost-like-a-ghostbuster/ Questions or concerns? Contact us at https://underknown.com/contact/ Get our 100 best episodes in one mind-blowing book: http://bit.ly/ytc-the-what-if-100-book Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphTF9wHwhCt-BzIq-s4V-g/jo...

http://youtu.be/ZZmqbtB80UQ Do you ever get the feeling you’re being watched? What if every move you make is recorded? You didn’t see any security cameras, and that’s the point.What if the military deployed a million nano drones? Insect-sized surveillance robots capable of watching your every move.What kind of missions would they perform? Would it make the world safer? Or start a dystopian nightmare? Subscribe to our second channel called "How to Survive": https://bit.ly/how-to-survive-by-what-if Can you translate this episode into another language? Add subtitles and we will link your YouTube channel in the description: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=ZZmqbtB80UQ Watch more what-if scenarios: Planet Earth: http://bit.ly/YT-what-if-Earth The Cosmos: http://bit.ly/YT-what-if-C...

http://youtu.be/rU063xLAXWc Elevate your writing with 20% off Grammarly Premium by signing up at http://www.Grammarly.com/WHATIF Jetpack technology is getting better, and maybe someday, jetpacks will be available for your everyday commute. But what if, instead of just using a jetpack for a short trip, you went straight up? And up, and up, until you reached space? How powerful are jetpacks? How fast would you have to travel? How long can a jetpack fly? How does the gravity jet suit work? Could jetpack joyride become part of our real life? What is the death zone? Get our 100 best episodes in one mind-blowing book: http://bit.ly/ytc-the-what-if-100-book Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphTF9wHwhCt-BzIq-s4V-g/join Watch more what-if scenarios: P...

http://youtu.be/tsU9nKT5RRA What if the Universe is an illusion? What if your reality is not what it seems to be? What if you are you're just a 2D projection stretched on the surface of a black hole? And what does a black hole have to do with all this? I know what you think. This isn't real. How can we live in a hologram if everything around us is three-dimensional? Transcript and sources: https://insh.world/science/what-if-you-lived-inside-a-hologram/ Watch more what-if scenarios: Planet Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-HhCwYD7rc&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTJCzxwmCq0NNpYq9N9wyb2l The Cosmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfuJyVkMH_g&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTJno6oFF9nLGuwXNGYHmE8U Technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS3bBO05fpU&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTIeRY3JtgXgoGqSEB7kDdKO Your Bo...

http://youtu.be/jeN2ynwny6A As our population grows, we're going to need a lot more farms to feed the planet. Yet, in a lot of places, farming is almost impossible. And much of the land we can use for farming is disappearing. With so many farms on land, could we build farms vertically to save space? Maybe it’s time to grow ... up? Where do we need vertical farms? What would it take to build them? How could they help to save the planet? Transcript and source: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-we-built-vertical-farms/ Subscribe to the brand-new What If Discussed podcast: http://bit.ly/yt-what-if-show-podcast Take a deeper dive into What If episodes with the help from the world's top thinkers in science. Join our Patreon community and help make What If better: http://bit.ly/whatif-patreon ...

http://youtu.be/dA1LH_Jwmro A particle accelerator is not some kind of evil super villain torture device. A particle accelerator is used for health, safety, discovery, and for learning more about our universe. You can't see what it does, but you can feel it. The question is, can you survive its effects? Chances are you've probably already been exposed to accelerated particles before! So how do you feel? Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-happens-if-you-put-your-head-into-a-particle-accelerator/ Sign up for our What If Explorers Club weekly newsletter for exclusives & giveaways: http://bit.ly/what-if-explorers-yt Join our Patreon community and help make What If better: http://bit.ly/whatif-patreon Can you translate this episode into another language? Add subtitles ...