World Jumping Day

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Quetzalcoatl

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Alright then.
No physics calculations, nor geography foreseen...

It´s a cool flashmob, and obviously it´s not gonna change nothing, but it´s funny to think about it =]

link:
http://www.worldjumpday.org/
 
Thats almost interesting, too bad only a tenth of the 200milion people will actually jump, id say when theres all of the world registered then maybe it would work :cool:
 
omg....
please... no calculations u.u

PLEASE... no geocatastrophic previsions.... =~~~~~
It´s just a FUNNY thing =~

and its in 2006, so we have a lot o´time =~
 
compfreak said:
What! Earth weighs 5973600000000000000000000 kg. There are 6000000 people on the planet. Assume an average weight of 100 kg for ease of calculation. We in total weigh 1200000000 kg. This means we weigh 0.0000000000000002% of the earth's weight. Nothing will change.



Source http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html.

No, there are 6 billion people, which is 6, 000, 000, 000, 6 thousandmillion is 6 billion, there are 40 million people in South Africa alone, so they'd wheigh a bit more, too lazy to do the calcualtion though
 
Oh, I mistyped. I'll do the calc again anyways since last time I had a headache from spraying poison around my house.

There are 6*10^9 people on earth. Since children usually weigh < 50 kg and adults are often (not always) > 100 kg, a safe average would be 75 kg. NASA says that earth weighs 5.9736 *10^24 kg. I want to find the percentage people weigh of the earth, so I divide total weight by the earth's weight and multiply by 100. That is *whips out calculator* 7.53*10^-14. Multiplied by 100 it is 7.53*10^-12%. We weigh 0.00000000000753% of the earth. Yeah, my old calculation was pretty far off, but there is still no difference.
 
Sure, we weigh less, but that's not the point I think. It's not called "World eat till you weigh more than 200 kilos day" therefor.
 
compfreak said:
What! Earth weighs 5973600000000000000000000 kg. There are 6000000 people on the planet. Assume an average weight of 100 kg for ease of calculation. We in total weigh 1200000000 kg. This means we weigh 0.0000000000000002% of the earth's weight. Nothing will change.



Source http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html.

Pretty sure the scientists they reference on the site already made their own calculations before endorsing it. I'm going to take their word over yours.
 
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