are you going to jump on the 20 of july?

skyfire2 · Wed 15/03/2006 20:28:34

scientists have actually figured a way to stop global warming. if everyone jumps at the same time the earth will be knocked out of orbit causing a cooler climate. i've already registered and i can't wait for chaos to come over all of us.

world jump day

DoorKnobHandle · Wed 15/03/2006 20:31:24

This "joke" has already been found and pointed out here by someone a few months ago. I hope I don't need to add that real scientists have proven that this won't work, right?

skyfire2 · Wed 15/03/2006 20:36:31

Quote from: dkh on Wed 15/03/2006 20:31:24
This "joke" has already been found and pointed out here by someone a few months ago. I hope I don't need to add that real scientists have proven that this won't work, right?

i haven't seen one solid demonstration that disproves this idea.

Haddas · Wed 15/03/2006 20:37:11

That seems logical. Like pushing a door from both sides.

The earth weighs approximately 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 Metric tons. that's around six billion trillion tons.. The population of earth barely weighs at ONE Trillion. I'm sceptical.

If you can make a fly pull a car, then I might believe this.

Scummbuddy · Wed 15/03/2006 20:37:44

well, if everyone around the world jumps at the exact moment, then everyones force would cancel out their opposite force from the other side.

Ubel · Wed 15/03/2006 21:23:59

The Earth will just explode due the pressure of everyone jumping at the same time. It has nothing to do with stopping the global warming.

ManicMatt · Wed 15/03/2006 21:25:13

If the earth explodes, then we won't have global warming! So lets do it!

Mr Flibble · Wed 15/03/2006 21:26:26

I heard that if you write "jump" backwards, it spells "9/11".

Radiant · Wed 15/03/2006 21:40:35

I promise that I will singlehandedly (well, singlefootedly) jump five seconds later, thus ruining the whole effort for all of you! Muahahahah!

ManicMatt · Wed 15/03/2006 21:46:59

Then I shall endeavour to put so much weight on that I'm twice the size when I jump, thus counterbalancing your efforts! (IF I can muster up jumping in the first place being so heavy, that is)

Grapefruitologist · Wed 15/03/2006 21:49:51

Acctually, global warming might not even exist in the first place. And besides, I've heard that if the Earth goes off orbit by just one inch, it would fly off into outer space, never to be seen again...

Quote"The earth weighs approximately 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 Metric tons. that's around six billion trillion tons.. The population of earth barely weighs at ONE Trillion. I'm sceptical."

Maybe when the world gets overpopulated we can! Heheh (Acctually, to be overpopulated, every female in the world would have to have atleast two children. That's what I've heard.)
I'm guessing whoever thought of this idea is one of those crazy people who are constantly thinking up UFO and conspiracy ideas and saying that the miracles in the bible were caused by some alien force, conspiring against the world to do a "religion experiment"...
Or just a prankster who wants to have fun.

Also, from the picture on the website of the new orbit, we would acctually be CLOSER to the sun, as it's a wider orbit, not farther away. It wouldn't do a thing for global warming, just make it worse.

UPDATE: This is what it says when I looked "Jump Day" up, just to prove it:

QuoteWorld Jump Day
Information on a plan to alter Earth's orbit by multiple people jumping. [Contains fictitious information]

http://www.venehammerschlag.com/worldjumpday/

Goes to the same website as you posted.

EDIT: WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE! Read it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Jump_Day

BOYD1981 · Wed 15/03/2006 22:07:00

this has already been done in an episode of Dangermouse called "The Intergalactic 147", some aliens were playing a game of snooker with planets and Earth was the blue ball. DM arranged for everyone on Earth to jump at the same time so that the cueball (the moon) would miss.

biothlebop · Wed 15/03/2006 22:12:00

Quote from: Grapefruitologist on Wed 15/03/2006 21:49:51
And besides, I've heard that if the Earth goes off orbit by just one inch, it would fly off into outer space, never to be seen again...

I don't believe that to be true, it seems highly unlikely that Earth would have an exact orbit defined around the Sun, example: From what I read somewhere, the distance to the moon changes about 1 m every 100 years or something. I guess the orbit is in a sine-type movement, constantly changing a little back and forth, but unless drastic things happen we are bound to our galaxy.

Grapefruitologist · Wed 15/03/2006 22:16:37

Well, think about it. If it goes off orbit, it would eventually and very gradually go off until it just detached and started floating off. But I still don't know.

Domino · Wed 15/03/2006 22:22:43

If that ever happened, it would be one hell of a ride.

Radiant · Wed 15/03/2006 22:23:40

Entropy dictates that the Earth will eventually "fall" from orbit into the heaviest gravitational body nearby (i.e. the sun). The key word is "eventually", which in this case is measured in some billions of years.

Orbits fluctuate. Around any celestial body, you can set up an orbit at any point in a large interval of average heights, but the velocity has to match up with the gravitational pull on that height (hence, geostationary satellites must all hang at the same height).

biothlebop · Wed 15/03/2006 22:43:57

As Radiant said, it is unlikely that anything will stay in orbit forever, the main thing was the one inch you said, which to me seemed trivially small. I once had to work with a program calculating parths for particles as they pass each other and in the case of more than 2 objects, it gets really complex quick (from parables to something that looks like random scribbling). Not only the sun's gravitational pull affects the earths path in space so we might yet see some enormous planet that sweeps past us and pulls us off into space rather than the sun.
Here's the moon thing:
http://www.mikekemble.com/space/discovery2.html
This is pulled a little out of context, but I beleve that scale to be a little closer than the inch mentioned to make a difference.
"Since the Earth already travels around the Sun in an ellipse, its distance from the Sun varies by 5 million kilometers over the course of a year. A 40 km increase in average distance would not be noticeable."

Kweepa · Wed 15/03/2006 23:27:48

The only way this could work would be if everyone got on the day-side of the earth, jumped, and DIDN'T LAND.
Once you land again, the steady state of the planet goes back to the way it was before you jumped, ergo no change in orbit.

magintz · Wed 15/03/2006 23:42:09

global warming is a made up thing like the boogie man or michael jackson used to scare kids into doings as they are told. It all stems back to the prehistoric times coming from the latin word globalis - meaing false and warmingulos - meaing story.

The following diagram explains this:

SinSin · Thu 16/03/2006 00:10:11

i think that piling on loads of weight would probably make the problem worse you know all that methane hmm and think of the stink

One good way of stopping global warming is for everyone to get together on the 20th of july and go on one huuuuugggggeeee cow tipping Spree therefore eliminating alot of methane
Its logical it just might work

Did you know that a cow produces more methane in a day than what a Landrover 4*4 does in a year FACT