The forums would be filled with CatAnimations and PacBrads going LALALALALA DOOOOOOOOOOOO LOL69 pu$$ysl3yr69


What if the planet Jupiter instantaneously ceased to exist?

More asteroids and comets would enter the inner solar system in the future due to Jupiter's gravity no longer capturing them or confining them within the asteroid belt.

 

What if TPT included the entire standard model of particle physics?

Your computer's RAM and CPU would do this, or if not, would have a FPS of 0.000000000000001


What if all games on Steam were made free?

Some game makers would remove their games because they don't like to give people cool and free games.

What if a dinosaure has been implemented to the world somehow?

(I have no idea what's the story of CatAnimation)

Some billionare idiot would hunt it down and turn it into a coat and a carpet.

 

What if all oil reserves on the planet would suddently triple?

Satellites detect seemingly new oil reserves across the planet, and the total amount of detected oil multiplies by at least five within a month. Most of this oil is in the ocean, and much is in smaller countries. Geologists over the world are puzzled, and demand access to these reserves for study- naturally, most countries deny it. Some countries with especially large new oil reserves and a large scientific infrastructure- Denmark, for example- allow it, and no source of change is found. Puzzled, geologists continue research. Meanwhile, small and weak countries are being forced into harsh agreements with larger hegemonic nations. Conventions such as Kyoto protocols are ignored, to the extreme irritation of environmentalists, as oil is rapidly harvested and used, creating a boom in many countries. Those countries that either don't have oil or are too environment-friendly to utilize it fall behind.

The first countries to benefit are Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Japan, although all but Russia are initially cautious. Other countries- China, mostly- manage to pressure others into agreements. No wars as of yet, as nobody really wants to get into a war when tensions are so high that nuclear weapons might be involved.
Just oppression and hegemonic pressure.

From an economic point, oil prices drop rapidly. Electric cars, paper bags, and similar environmental products practically die out simply because the oil-based alternative is so much cheaper. While an oil crisis has been averted somewhat, it will be much bigger when it comes. The economies of many countries that are oil-based yet don't have access to the new oil fail- many Middle Eastern and North African countries in particular. Israel, with U.S. oil money behind it, grows much stronger among its failing neighbours.

Eventually, countries grow to take more aggressive action. The first outright annexations are by Russia- out of the current G8 powers, Japan/France/Germany/U.S./U.K./Canada, France and Germany have little access to oil, the U.K., U.S., and Canada care too much about their image to get more than what they need, and Japan has all it needs, being a relatively small country with the U.S.'s backing and all the oil in the Pacific it could want. Russia moves into East Europe and Mongolia, pressuring the EU and China. A second union akin to the USSR begins to form, angering and worrying the EU and China. The U.S., having dealt with this before, pushes forward an isolationist policy and does not deal in world politics, merely siphoning oil from the Pacific with Japan (the U.S. and Japan are pretty much best friends).

Escalations of tension occur, the world is effectively split into two, and the U.S. is slightly drawn in by Canada, who usually has strong ties to Europe. Japan, in a strange historical twist, is invaded by China, and the U.S. turns its back on Japan in a dishonorable but perhaps sensible betrayal. Nuclear weapons are finally launched. The U.S. is in a political and technological position where it does not receive much fire and is able to block most of the incoming projectiles, so it suffers minimal casualties- exactly what it wanted. Many other countries with oil and little political affiliation survive almost unscathed as well. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, many African countries, Norway, etc.

Final result: A large petroleum-and-petroleum-products bubble burst by nuclear weapons.

Someone would probably try to create Skynet with it.

 

What if Venus and Earth were to swap orbits, so that Earth occupied Venus's former orbit and vice versa?

No-one would have anything of value to anyone else. We would live lives of seclusion. What are friends for?

 

What if this wasn't an attempt to emulate this: http://what-if.xkcd.com/ (it's really good so check it out, and have you read the book?)

 

uhhh imean 

 

What if we could have fuel cells which could store the power of a nuclear bomb but be the size of a watch battery?