Uatu the Watcher wonders...

1. What if we had only three fingers?
2. What if we’re all sitting in a Petri dish under a giant microscope?
3. What if we knew the date our existence would come to an end?
4. What if newspaper editors really DID have ink in their veins?
5. What if some of us had super powers we took as regular senses?
6. What if every story we’ve ever told actually exists in another reality?
7. What if, assuming the above is true, authors and artists weren’t really GENERATING original ideas as they think, but are simply plucking something out of another reality?
8. What if we could record what babies dream?
9. What if everything you’ve known, every little bit of your history, was a dream?
10. What if you woke up from that dream and forgot, as many people do with dreams, everything in your life up to this point?
11. What if we were given a set amount of currency from birth and could never earn more?
12. What if everybody on the planet just froze for a few seconds?
13. What if American never claimed independence from Britain?
14. What if we could actually see civilization from Roman times? Would we be disappointed?
15. What if planets are to all of existence what atoms are to us?
16. What if Gutenberg had died in infancy?
17. What if the world switched a single global time without time zones?
18. What if somebody HAD launched a nuke during the Cold War?
19. What if we could condense air particles super tightly instantaneously to be able to literally walk on air?
20. What if modern bands actually wrote their OWN songs?
21. What if other areas of our brains suddenly “unlocked” and we could tap into MUCH more mental ability?
22. What if grass, tired of being trod upon for so many millions of years, developed the ability to exact revenge?
23. What if the planet could speak to us in a language we readily understood?
24. What if a global EMP-type of thing permanently killed any existing electronic devices?
25. What if an actor suffered some sort of mental break where they became locked into the persona of one of their characters?
26. What if we were a technologically advanced, but cannibalistic society?
27. What if a “soul” could be transferred into digital data? How big of a hard drive would that require?
28. What if a slumbering creature from the deep suddenly awoke?
29. What if a popular religious text was originally written to be an early fantasy novel?
30. What if death was popularly accepted as just another existence? How would that affect the generally held fear of death?
31. What if every monitor, every cell phone, every mouse click sent your biological data to a master database deep in the crust of the earth?
32. What if Baskin Robbins had 32 flavors instead of 31?
33. What if we could see radio waves – heck, what if we could see ANY type of additional portions of the electromagnetic spectrum?
34. What if we absorbed information from everything we eat?
35. What if easy-to-run airships were commonplace?
36. What if digital data could be hidden in atoms? Could we encode data into paint? Paper? Bottles of air?
37. What if it was Yoko, not John that was shot?
38. What if I call you a spoony bard?
39. What if curing cancer intensified the overpopulation problem?
40. What If every person held the belief that all other people were more important than themselves?
41. What if there was land where oceans are, and oceans where land is?
42. What if gemstones and crystals and the like held a specific power within, but we’ve just not developed the ability to sense it or draw it out?
43. What if we never developed the ability to record music or video? How would our appreciation of live music and performances change?
44. What if my own thoughts leak out for everybody to hear? What if it’s all just one big joke against me?
45. What if the princess wasn’t in another castle after all?
46. What if you had put the frozen egg on something other than a white paper plate? (Posted to Fred’s blog)
47. What if the bad-assery of your chops developed a cult following? (Posted to Ryan Kincaid’s blog)
48. What if the egg had been fertilized? Would you have still tried to eat it? (Posted to Matt Oelker’s blog)
49. What if we saw the original, live piece, and felt the "lesser" digital camera shot was superior? (Posted to Ryan Sellick’s blog)
50. What if someone had solved it right off the bat? (Posted to Janna Selmer’s blog)

And a bonus!
51. What if Blogger decided to warp the formatting after copying and pasting from Word?
52. What if Blogger mysteriously auto-corrected the formatting error after I copied and pasted again?