What if..

[AsdaCoke]

What if Archduke Franz Ferdinand wasn't assassinated? Would that have stopped the first world war? And maybe the second?

 

[NeedAUserName]

What if I had never been born?

No one would care and you wouldn't be reading this post.

 

[NewClassic_v1legacy]

What if I were raised like my father, and I became more an athlete than a intellectual?

 

[Omnidum]

What if I suddenly got the same amount of brains as W. A. Mozart had?

 

[Souplex]

What if I am not the greatest thing ever?

You would all be really awesome or I would be really sucky.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

What if Orson Welles was here now? what would he say?

 

[CrazyBerk]

What if Orson Welles was here now? what would he say?

"Braaaaaains"

 

[The Iron Ninja]

What if Orson Welles was here now? what would he say?

"Braaaaaains"

"no Zombie Welles! stop nibbling on my neck!"

What if NewClassic was old? would he be OldClassic?

 

[spiggy]

What if the zombie apocalypse is right around the corner?

It is! Oh, yes, it is. I've prepared for it, have you?

What if Miyamoto had decided to be a baker instead of making video games?
What if everybody in the world went out right now and bought Macs?
What if gravity decided to pull things to the left instead of down?
What if nobody had watched the first season of Survivor?

 

[TheVoyager]

-what would the world be like if all the annoying preppies, douche bags, fags and jocks didn't exist. (sorry if you fall into any of these categories, especially douche bag)

I expect that the world's governments would all stop fighting and the sun would shine and people would stop being hungry.

I assume when you say "fags" you don't mean gay people. If you do, that's pretty low man.

 

[Rune342]

What would the world be like if duct tape was never made?

 

[HuntingWolf_01]

What if the USSR returned?

 

[jake09050]

What if I'd been born a female.

You would be wondering what life would be like being a male

 

[joswie]

What if gravity decided to pull things to the left instead of down?

I see what you xkcdid there.
What if we asked original what if questions?
What if what if questions cause the black plague?

 

[crepesack]

what if i was standing right behind the previous poster and i have been watching this whole time

 

[HomeAliveIn45]

What if I hadn't posted this...

 

[Kruschack]

What if Kitty Genovese hadn't been raped and killed?

What if Alan Moore wasn't a good writer?

What if the Watchmen doesn't come out? Or worse, what if it sucks?!

Actually, I can answer that one: I will personally beat the living crap out of all involved, excluding Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and so forth. Then make them apologize on live TV to the entire world (assuming the entire world suddenly gained access to TV and such).

 

[Zombie_King]

What if the zombie apocalypse is right around the corner?

Don't worry, I've decided to keep them in their cages for another couple of weeks.

What if the Confederate won the Civil War? Would America still have slaves?

 

[Razzle Bathbone]

What if we had machines or other systems to take care of all the necessary tasks for survival and nobody needed to work for a living anymore?

 

[JMeganSnow]

What if all those forty year old science fiction novels about us having moon colonies and interstellar travel by now had actually turned out to be accurate predictions?

I love speculative fiction but it makes me sad every time I read one of those Twenty Minutes Into The Future novels. It is as if the advent of the enlightenment and the rational scientific approach that followed freed men to dream of greatness, and now the horizons shrink daily until the dream is all we have left.