World Jump Day

[emad]

www.worldjumpday.org

The idea here is to get enough people to jump at the same time on the same day to push the earth's orbit enough to drop the world's temperature by a few degrees to slow down global warming. As odd as it sounds, it seems that these people are serious...

So lets all get together on July 20th 2006 at 6:19pm GMT-5 and jump! Who knows, maybe they did their math wrong and they'll send us into the sun!!

 

[Ev0]

 

[McLaren]

My thoughts exactly.

 

[emad]

hey, i'm just as confused maan. My guess is if you get that many people to jump, you could cause major earthquakes all over the world. I wonder what Famine has to say on this

 

[Shannon]

That sums everything up nicely.

 

[standard235]

Wouldn't it only work if everyone on one side of the Earth do it. Dumb ****ing Americans...

EDIT: Couldn't it also send the Earth into an oval orbit... I was told that the Earth, if moved a few feet away from the Sun, would freeze. Along with this, a few feet closer and we'd burn up. Famine will have more insight than me... but I know nothing.

 

[Bahbo]

I find it hard to believe that 105,150,244 eggheads have registered to participate in this "world jump day". The Earth would feel a reaction force equal and opposite to the force developed by jumping.

Edit:

Wouldn't it only work if everyone on one side of the Earth do it. Dumb ****ing Americans...

You would be just as dumb to think people jumping on the earths surface would throw it into a new orbit. And in this clever joke people jump at different times depending on where they live. (It's not just "dumb ****ing americans" that are involved.)

 

[Omnis]

global warming would ultamitely make the earth colder anyway...

more ocean = lower temps.

 

[PS]

Hypothesis
Ok, since you people all know the Earth is round, then everyone jumping all at once would do absolutely nothing but make minor tremors on the floor of whatever you're jumping on.

Analysis
The world isn't flat, and jumping on one half of the world won't do anything anyway. How many people are in Asia? 2-3 billion? So, let's say 420,000,000,000lb's of force, equally spread out, over 50,000 square miles, would equal 4.8 million lb's of force per square mile (27,878,400ft^2). Which is to say, nothing. There are landslides larger than that that go unreported. What a bunch of retards.

Conclusion
And for those of you who still think it would work, just remember that since the Earth is round, soft, and moist, the energy will not go straight to the core and carry the force with it, but dissipate and be equally distributed throughout.

[edit]

That comes to less than 20lb's per square foot.

 

[incredible]

it isnt the 1st of april anymore!

 

[G.T]

It's very unlikley anything would happen:

One, like PS said, the earth is round. If we all jump at the same time, all around the world, we would be pushing against each other, canceling each other out.

Two, we orbit the sun. We're in it's gravity so it would be really hard to push ourselves out of it.

Plus I don't think atomic bombs do anything so why even try.

 

[Famine]

Three...

As each person jumps up and away from the Earth, the energy stored in their muscles pushes the Earth away slightly, but the gravitational effect attracts the Earth towards them slightly. As they land, their gravitational potential energy is converted into heat energy and sound energy as well as kinetic energy, pushing the Earth away slightly - but not forgetting that the Earth's gravitational effect pulls them towards it.

Even if the Earth were a solid, immutable object, there would be no overall motion. The Earth, however, bends quite a bit under gravitational forces from surrounding bodies so even if there was an overall motion, briefly, it would have no effect anyway.



On the upside, if you were to fart constantly for 6 years, you'd unleash the same amount of energy as a single medium sized hydrogen bomb. Don't see "National Fart Month" anywhere though.

 

[PS]

Three...

As each person jumps up and away from the Earth, the energy stored in their muscles pushes the Earth away slightly, but the gravitational effect attracts the Earth towards them slightly. As they land, their gravitational potential energy is converted into heat energy and sound energy as well as kinetic energy, pushing the Earth away slightly - but not forgetting that the Earth's gravitational effect pulls them towards it.

Even if the Earth were a solid, immutable object, there would be no overall motion. The Earth, however, bends quite a bit under gravitational forces from surrounding bodies so even if there was an overall motion, briefly, it would have no effect anyway.



On the upside, if you were to fart constantly for 6 years, you'd unleash the same amount of energy as a single medium sized hydrogen bomb. Don't see "National Fart Month" anywhere though.

Just goes to show that we need smart people in the world. Thank you to all who didn't fall for this. *cough eMad cough* jk

Pretty weird concept though.

 

[McLaren]

Three...
On the upside, if you were to fart constantly for 6 years, you'd unleash the same amount of energy as a single medium sized hydrogen bomb. Don't see "National Fart Month" anywhere though.

That suddenly reminded me of the South Park episode where everyone farted too much and made global warming worse.

Dear god, that can't happen though.

 

[G.T]

I read somewhere that if you do enough eggy farts in a house, you can make it explode.

Maybe that'll shift the earth.

 

[xAkirax2004]

Three...

As each person jumps up and away from the Earth, the energy stored in their muscles pushes the Earth away slightly, but the gravitational effect attracts the Earth towards them slightly. As they land, their gravitational potential energy is converted into heat energy and sound energy as well as kinetic energy, pushing the Earth away slightly - but not forgetting that the Earth's gravitational effect pulls them towards it.

Even if the Earth were a solid, immutable object, there would be no overall motion. The Earth, however, bends quite a bit under gravitational forces from surrounding bodies so even if there was an overall motion, briefly, it would have no effect anyway.



On the upside, if you were to fart constantly for 6 years, you'd unleash the same amount of energy as a single medium sized hydrogen bomb. Don't see "National Fart Month" anywhere though.

So, in conclusion, the Earth is just too effing huge. I think the mass goes into the 22nd power.

EDIT: It's actually 5.97*10^24 Kg. Close.

 

[Mr. Mika]

Wow...

This must be one of the weirdest threads I've read so far.

Thanks, guys!

 

[Jpec07]

I'm doing it just because I wanna jump...