For anyone not yet aware this video series is adapted from a 12 year old blog of the same name: https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/. If you like these hypotheticals, you can find more in the archive.
“ 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.”
Yeah, I love Randall's old blog. Super happy that they're getting remastered in video form with narration by the man himself.
Oh is that him?
I was going to be disappointed that someone was just reading them, rather than directing people to the original source, but if it's the source reading them, I'm rather happy, but the absorber doesn't get the foot notes or image caption things.
We're going to need a bigger bat
First, we need a material that can withstand the nuclear explosion in the stadium.
he calls it a thermonuclear explosion. is that the same as a nuclear explosion??
For anyone not yet aware this video series is adapted from a 12 year old blog of the same name: https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/. If you like these hypotheticals, you can find more in the archive.
“ 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.”
Yeah, I love Randall's old blog. Super happy that they're getting remastered in video form with narration by the man himself.
Oh is that him?
I was going to be disappointed that someone was just reading them, rather than directing people to the original source, but if it's the source reading them, I'm rather happy, but the absorber doesn't get the foot notes or image caption things.