Jump Day

[DefJef]

Has anyone heard of 'jump day' ?? Apparently, if 600,000,000 people jump at the same time, the earths orbit will change and stop global warming, extend daylight hours and create a more homogenious climate.

http://www.worldjumpday.org/

ahah.... i wonder ?? ??

[trance4life]

never heard of it

[wum]

don't we need to get everyone on the same hemisphere?

[Bitchin]

I heard about this awhile.

if it would work tho... i dunno.

[mux]

That's probably the stupidest idea I've heard all day.

...and let me tell you, today... hoo boy.

[Flip]

I heard that from the same guy that told me, if you get 17 japanese midgets to skull-fuck a goldfish, on the second tuesday in April, it will cause all people suffering from Lupus to simultaneously implode. It's true.

[wikid]

LOL I agree wum.

I think I'll do it for the sake of doing it lol =).

I wonder if it matters how hard we jump

[ja_raul]

this sounds like the most fuckin retarded shit ive ever heard of in my life

pardon my french

[mapleleaf4ever]

I've got this Bridge going cheap.... interested?

[ty_guy]

well that would be lovely if that could happen and this global warming stops but i have my doubts. also sorta thinking ..... if that many people jummped at the same time wouldn't it create some sorta quake activitiy??? i'd jump for the hell of it anyways.

[robyn]

What if it moves the wrong way and everything just gets worse?

[wum]

[Dean]

hahaha yeah right

[mux]

Originally Posted by ty_guy

well that would be lovely if that could happen and this global warming stops but i have my doubts. also sorta thinking ..... if that many people jummped at the same time wouldn't it create some sorta quake activitiy??? i'd jump for the hell of it anyways.

Jesus, think about this for a sec:

You weigh (let's guess) about 150lbs. Let's say, for argument's sake, that a mass of dirt the same size as you weighs about the same amount as you, 150lbs.

Now, let's think about tectonic plates, the massive bits of dirt that float around on the soft, chewy center of the earth. Those plates range from about 15km thick to about 200km thick.

Let's call you 2m tall and about... oh, fuck it, let's just say you're two cubic meters of dirt worth of weight.

Now, say the whole city of Vancouver (let's say for argument's sake two million people) jumps at once. That's about 300,000,000 pounds lifted off the earth, or about 4,000,000 cubic meters of dirt, then set back down again suddenly.

We live on the North American tectonic plate, which, according to this page is about 75,888,000 square kilometers, and is 200 km's thick at the center parts - so let's just round that off to 70,000,000 square km's and 100km's thick, or 7,000,000,000 (seven billion) cubic kilometers of dirt. Remember that a cubic kilometer of dirt is 1000x1000x1000 cubic meters of dirt, so now we're dealing with seven billion times a billion, or 7,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic meters of dirt.

Now, where we decided that a human is equal to the weight of two cubic meters of dirt, that means that the tectonic plate we live on is equal to the weight of 3.5 quadrillion people, or about 525 quadrillion pounds. That's EIGHTEEN ZEROS.

Given that two cubic meters of dirt weighs a lot more than a person, even, what you folks are suggesting (everyone jumping at once) is roughly the equivalent of a dust mite lifting and setting down it's foot on the head of the Empire State Building.

Now, do you see why this is stupid? Can we drop it?

[wikid]

lol - I think mux won this debate lol.

[mux]

Originally Posted by mux

Now, where we decided that a human is equal to the weight of two cubic meters of dirt, that means that the tectonic plate we live on is equal to the weight of 3.5 quadrillion people, or about 525 quadrillion pounds. That's EIGHTEEN ZEROS.

Ahhhh, fuck.

Here I am, talking like I know shit.

Eighteen zeros is one quintillion, not one quadrillion.

d'oh.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by sirjeff

Has anyone heard of 'jump day' ??

Apparently not the laws of physics....

[Hot Karl]

but what happens if we all fart at once?

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Hot Karl

but what happens if we all fart at once?

Ed turns to Shaun and says,

"No Shaun....... I'm _sorry_."

[gnosis]

*^jumps for Mux^*

Frosty
(~wipes tear~)