r/whatif

Imagine this: A genie offers you the ability to turn into 10 different animals at will. The rules are as follows:

● You can turn into and back from them at will

● You live and age at the rate of a human in your animal form

● Any exercise or injuries you get in your animal form translates back to your human form

● Your human cognition remains intact and present with the new added animalistic instincts in your animal form.

Now. What 10 animals would you pick and why?

If Jim Crow became reality again overnight, what would the implications for society and you personally be?

Would corn eventually be the only thing you end up pooin?

There will be investigations on Trump’s family business for corruptions once Trump is not in power. Trump will most likely pardon himself and his entire family for any wrongdoing before his Presidency ends. My question is what if he dies suddenly before giving out any pardons. Will JD Vance pardons Trump’s family?

What if one night you woke up and everything in your house felt… off.
The only thing you have with you is your phone, and the date says September 10th, 2001, 11:00 PM.
You’re an American citizen. Outside, everything seems completely normal and peaceful. Then suddenly, you remember the tragedy that will happen in just a few hours.
What’s the very first thing you do?
Be careful…not everyone is going to believe you.

Would this be one of the most OP stuff in the history, or would this simply turns our hero into a Self-destruct bomb? And how to improve the superpower if it's the second case?

what will the horn of africa, central asia and oceania look like under republican rule? what reforms will they institute after taking over the planet?

Now, I'm not saying that I do believe the earth is flat. I'm just wondering: WHAT IF the earth actually WAS flat and they'd faked it all. If we did find out about it somehow, how would we react? What would our government's even have to say to defend themselves?

How angry would we actually be? The world being flat would literally shatter the entire framework of what scientists have been constructing for centuries. And even more so, how would things unravel if they actually DID find things across the ice wall? How crazy would people get?

No negative side effects, you just don’t need sleep anymore.

Would society become way more productive, or would people just end up working even more and burning out in different ways?

Also curious what happens to things like night/day routines, jobs, and just how people structure their lives.

how would the world be and would texas exist at all?

A German Bomb hit and Damaged Buckingham Palace and Westminster during the War, but what would be the repercussions of their destruction during, if all immediate royals/Leaders of Government were present, and died in the blast, how would British society change?

I’m so sick of people commenting “that can’t happen” or some memes when somebody asks a what if question. (Edit: look how these comments are proving me right :/)

You have to admit, humans can be fucking awful. We're awful to ourselves, to each other, to our environment.

What if instead of a god or evolution, aliens just recognised how much we suck and dumped us here to figure ourselves out?

And maybe if we can learn to cooperate and stop killing each other, they'll let us back in the big multi-alien universe.

What if Memphis decided to succeed from Tennessee? Where would its status be regarding representation in DC? Would it become its own state? I would love to see large parts of Virginia I.e. NoVa the Va Beach area do the same being large parts of the state do not share the same values as these cities or areas yet they play a major roll on its politics just based on population numbers….when a vast amount of the state granted less population disagrees with such small areas I don’t feel they truly should be deciding the fate for such larger areas that vote and feel differently than those smaller areas…I’m sure i’ll get roasted for what i believe and how i feel but I’m not embarrassed and i’m not strictly Republican or Democrat for i feel this two party system is a major factor in the divide of our country creating issues and not solving actual pressing problems not helping the people or listening to there voices voting for what they feel pressured to just based on party alliances.

Would he be a Jedi? Sith? Something else? What kind of role would he play?

What would happen to them? Is there any research? I think that no experiments have been done to test this, but maybe someone here knows someone that accidentally participated in a study..

It has a secret room to operate the ship; there's no need to worry about power, and there's an energy dome around the house. Inside, everything is normal: temperature, gravity, pressure, and unlimited atmosphere.

comment what you think would happen! I think Reddit you have more AI.

We live in a world where superhero’s don’t exist, so we wouldn’t have figured out who caused it, or even figure out exactly 50% of life got wiped.