What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

xkcd's What If? · 6.3M views · 2025 · 3:37

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Explores the physical consequences of funneling Niagara Falls through a straw using humor and scientific reasoning.

Linked by 8 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ycombinator.com, laughingsquid.com, morningbrew.com, tespia.org, umucat.day.