World Jump Day!!

[nicrd]

Gloabal warming will end july 20th if everyone jumps at 11:39:13 GMT!

check this out: http://www.worldjumpday.org/

lol!!!

 

[Datrix]

Be there or be square.

 

[Glirk Dient]

If you take the total number of people and figure in the amount of energy they crate when they all jump at the same time and assume it is in the exact spot, when they land they wont even budge the earth the slightest bit, not even close.

 

[Foxtrot]

If you take the total number of people and figure in the amount of energy they crate when they all jump at the same time and assume it is in the exact spot, when they land they wont even budge the earth the slightest bit, not even close.

Well maybe not normal people, but I bet if your mom jumped enough it would.

 

[xLostx]

So this what all of Earth's greatest scientists have been working on.

 

[nicrd]

If you take the total number of people and figure in the amount of energy they crate when they all jump at the same time and assume it is in the exact spot, when they land they wont even budge the earth the slightest bit, not even close.

True. Also, everyone will jump all around the world, so it will even less make it change orbit. I just find this initiative funny.

 

[EC]

Not to mention the gravitational attraction that we have on the earth, and vice versa.

If we jump, we push the Earth away from us. The Earth also pushes us away from it. Once gravity takes over, which is the instant we jump, both Earth's gravity, and our gravity on Earth pull us back to the exact same spot. Since we have such a smaller mass than the Earth, we are going to move further.

 

[MarcoPollo]

I think it would be cooler if 1 out of every 8 people blew up 10 sticks of dynamite in the center of thier home town. mmmm Destruction.

 

[P_ 2 t3h Jizzle]

If you take the total number of people and figure in the amount of energy they crate when they all jump at the same time and assume it is in the exact spot, when they land they wont even budge the earth the slightest bit, not even close.

Link.

A "squiggle" was detected.



You lose.

 

[G-Dub]

"Scientific research has proven that this change of planetary positioning would very likely stop global warming, extend daytime hours..."

Yeah, either that or kill us all! LOL

 

[Burn]

Did you also know if everyone in the worlds waved there hands in the same direction, the earth would fall out of orbit into the sun?

>.>

 

[Hectic Glenn]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=74348 Another repost

and

Did you also know if everyone in the worlds waved there hands in the same direction, the earth would fall out of orbit into the sun?

>.>

Just wouldn't happen tbh. Theres nothing we can do to alter the earths movements that much...except build many thrusters on one of the poles, but then we still dont have enough fuel to power them to move the earth out its orbit. The size of the gravitational pull from the sun is huge. The bigger the object the bigger it is...so all the humans on earth are pretty insignificant.

 

[Shodan]

I think If we all just grab on to something, and move around (Not that :naughty: ) we can get momentum going enough to move the earth.

 

[SLH]

All we need is a place to stand, then we can move the earth.

 

[SimonomiS]

Just get out and push.
...What? :|

 

[RandomX]

Half of the population pushing one way and the other half pushing the other way, the forces would cancel out even if it was possible for that to change the earth's orbit. Everyone would just be jumping around like idiots... sounds fun!

 

[Lethal8472]

Okay, folks, let's look at this. Suppose everybody on the planet weighed 100kg (which is an overestimate, 70kg is more like it, probably less). Suppose that there were ten billion people (another overestimate - there are about 6.4 billion at the time of writing). Suppose that they all jumped ten metres in the air (a huge overestimate, fifty centimetres is more likely and probably much less). Suppose they were all at the exact same point on Earth (which they won't be, thus mitigating the effects of the jump). And lastly, suppose that they all jumped at precisely the same instant, which of course they will not, seeing as the time difference between the fastest watch and the slowest will likely be over five minutes.

Altogether that's a mass of one billion tonnes of humanity jumping ten metres in the air.

The Earth has a mass of... let's be nice and round it WAY down to 10^21 tonnes. That's a trillion times heavier than all of humanity. Which means the distance the Earth moves when everybody jumps will be one trillionth of the distance that all the people jumped: that is to say, 10^-11 metres, or about half the radius of a hydrogen atom.

It gets better. Even assuming the Earth did move by some significant distance when everybody jumped, just think about it: it'd move right back again! You jump up, the Earth goes down: you fall down, the Earth comes up to meet you. Jumping up and down to try to move the Earth is like trying to push a sailboat with a fan mounted on the boat. It just doesn't work!

That is from this website: http://ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/misc/mundicide/moving.html

It's the same guy who made the page on how to destroy the earth. For people who don't feel like reading it, basically it says if everyone on the Earth jumped at the exact same place at the exact same time (which is impossible), assuming everyone weighed 100kg (average person is more like 70kg), and jumped 10 meters into the air (average person can barely jump half a meter), the Earth would only move half the radius of a hydrogen atom. Big orbital change. And after it moved that distance, it would only bob right back to where it was.

 

[Foxtrot]

Link.

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You lose.

It was a squiggle from something used to detect earthquakes you moron.

 

[spookymooky]

All we need is a place to stand, then we can move the earth.

A fulcrum and lever might help.

(What is this?)
:bonce:

 

[ne0_shiny]

Thats hella dumb, its like your hand pushing itself, or moving a car with a magnet thats attached to the car

 

[Vorac1ous]

How random.