# What If? 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 19, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851 "2022-09-19T19:27:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/1 "2022-09-19T19:27:34Z")
The SDMB has been name checked- page 166. On that page, Randall Munroe in his hugely entertaining book _“What If? 2”_ mentions the SDMB - _“What is the density of cocaine? I spent a while reading though a wonderfully earnest and citation-filled discussion of this question on the Straight Dope Message Board where several people tried to get to the bottom of this question…”_ That might bring in a reader or two. Oh, and buy the book. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/2 "2022-09-19T20:39:46Z")
I think this is the thread: > [@What is the volume of a kilogram of cocaine?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-volume-of-a-kilogram-of-cocaine/286573): > > You often see a wrapped cake of cocaine in the movies wrapped in paper or tinfoil etc in a box shape. I’ve been trying to NO AVAIL online to find the volume of cocaine. How many cubic centimeters would a kilogram of cocaine take up? I’m trying to figure out the space that drug mules are able to store. Thanks in advance! There’s also this: > [@XKCD What If References SDMB!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-what-if-references-sdmb/695471/2): > > I’m not seeing the reference to the SDMB in the article you linked to. Where is it? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/3 "2022-09-19T21:10:59Z")
Good searching there! 👍 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/4 "2022-09-19T21:26:59Z")
Heh……. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/5 "2022-09-20T12:34:25Z")
IIRC he registered here as XKCD but was banned. Does that scan? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/6 "2022-09-20T15:07:26Z")
Small chuckle at the poster in that cocaine volume thread who said > [@](#): > > Let this serve as a bump, I guess. Pun presumably not intended. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/7 "2022-09-20T15:17:23Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > IIRC he registered here as XKCD but was banned. Does that scan? There is a user named xkcd that appears to have been quickly banned. In the few minutes I looked, I didn’t see an ATMB thread mentioning a reason. But then trying to search this board for mentions of a user named xkcd brings up a lot of erroneous results. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/8 "2022-09-20T23:25:34Z")
Eh it’s probably for the best. We don’t want any troublemakers like Randall Munroe around here. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/9 "2022-09-23T06:39:22Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > > [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > > > IIRC he registered here as XKCD but was banned. Does that scan? ⁢ > > There is a user named xkcd that appears to have been quickly banned. In the few minutes I looked, I didn’t see an ATMB thread mentioning a reason. But then trying to search this board for mentions of a user named xkcd brings up a lot of erroneous results. ⁢ Quick bans suggest that it was a spammer. I could see someone borrowing the name for cred. I could also see it being a set of random four letters tried by a bot. I doubt it was Randal Munroe himself. He’s too computer literate to have done something that would make him look like a spammer. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/10 "2023-01-03T23:51:50Z")
I had just finished the book and popped in to say, “Hey! The SDMB has some serious street cred now!” but I see that I’d been ninja’d by 106 days. Tripler I need to read faster. 🥴 ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-2/971851/11 "2023-01-10T16:15:28Z")
Elsewhere in that book he alludes to a message board thread about how much blood a human can drink without puking, but doesn’t mention which board. [I think that might have been us, too.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-blood/531816/30)