National jump day

[chainfire]

It seems like tomorrow, at 11:39:13 GMT, if at least 600,000,000 people jump in the Northern Hemisphere, the Earth will go into a new, and "better" orbit. Can/will this really happen.

[chainfire]

Sorry, never meant to write "National Jump Day", its "World Jump Day", and here is the link to the website http://www.worldjumpday.org/

[ugly_bob]

lol, what a load of crap!!

[naz_nomad]

Just remember ... the last time the Earth had a massive impact, mostly everything was wiped out ... you wanna be a part of that?

[fo3nix]

Even if the physics of this was totally sound (it's not), good luck in getting 600,000,000 people to jump at exactly the same time.

[mibn2cweus]

The gravitational attraction between 600,000,000 people temporarily suspended in air and the Earth would precisely counteract their efforts. However, if we all managed to jump hard enough to land on the Sun this might have an impact on global warming.

[THECORBYLOON]

Or failing that, Rik Waller on a pogo stick would do the same...

[Postdog]

you mean I did it for nothing....

[boobesque]

imagine a square. someone runs into it from the left and someone does the same from the right. what would happen? nothing. i doubt that you could get 600 million willing participants in one area on the planet. but even if you could that would be inconsequential. people make up a tiny proportoin of the earths mass and the added weight of our jumping would be negligable. should be called 'world sandwich growing day'

[ugly_bob]

what's wrong with world sandwich growing day? I fully expect a sandwich tree to start growing down the field. The sandwich was already growing when I threw it out the window. Just got to wait for the tree to grow to find out what sort it was