What if 600 million people in the western hemisphere simultaneously farted, and 600 million people in the eastern hemisphere simultaneously LIT A MATCH??!!




witless is bliss

excellent point...taking into account Oprah Wimphrey's 18th law of thermo dymanic structual explosive methane law it would be possible to float the planet nearer to the sun so we all get better tans..sounds like a plan

sand will settle and what have you, but the grains retain thier mass and shape. railroad engineers will dump sand under the drive wheels of a train for traction because of this.

Sand that is not interfered with will settle, it's true. Sand under the massive weight of a locomotive becomes instant dust, thus proving a brief period of increased friction. Still- sand can be compressed. I would also posit that the grains plced under that train DO NOT retain individual mass and shape.

My my where this thread has gone!

How about this: Why don't they just go out in a desert someplace and set up 600 million impact machines. Then let all the machines slam the earch with far more force then a person jumping, could?

Or maybe, how about explosives? If the force exherted jumping is the same as that of landing, surely the force of an explosive against the earch doesn't equal the few pounds that make up the explosive. Assuming the force of the blast can be directed strait down.
Or suppose a bunch of rockets, flew up and then dropped tons upon tons of metal onto the earth. Being that it is dropped from the air, there is no opposing force of the object leaving; on top of gravity and acceleration, can surely hit the earth with as much force.

But then again, if the force of jumping equals the force of landing, wouldn't that just mean that the earth is being pushed twice? Once for jumping and once for landing? And with a second or two in between, that would turn the impact of 600 million people in to 1.2 billion impacts wouldn't it?

What if all 6 billion of us just gathered up in, say, the far east of Siberia. The combined mass in one spot would surely increase the planets' speed of rotation; then combined with the massive shivering effect, the already slight axial tilt would increase to the point that THE SUN WOULD RISE IN THE NORTH!! Every 18.4 hrs. (my math on that is a little fuzzy- not everyone weighs the same) What a wonderfully calamitous event. Perhaps if it were organized in time, it would make for a truly NEW year!



witless is bliss

What if all 6 billion of us ran in the same direction really fast would this cause the earth to spin in the opossite direction thus sending us back in time?

.....it worked for superman

If so, I'll hafta just watch. I'm old and can't run. Guess I'll just see you guys when you get back to my time. Or are you already back, and don't know you left? If you do go, when you get back, ALL the ice cream sandwiches in the world will be gone! BTW- visited the Jump Day site- absolutely NO expounding of scientific theory, but---they WILL sell you a T-shirt!!!!

We could pick you up on the way..then start running again..its not a bother

Okay, but someone's gotta carry my cooler, I ain't goin without the aforementioned ice cream sandwiches. Course, what with global warming and all, they'll probly melt. OH, WAIT!.. In the future, Jump Day will have fixed that pesky warming thing, so they'll be alright. Main problem as I see it: if you guys stop in Vegas to pick me up, a lot of the faithful might end up at the tables, and we'll only make it to next week or so.

if the earth was an apple, the skin would be the parts we know. it is so massive that even a trillion people jumping would make no diffrence.

lets just say that a person will not crush sand as in the original question...

What they need to do is get all the ****roaches to jump at once. There is more insect body mass on this planet than there is human, anyway. Get 'em all in one hemisphere, let 'em jump, then RAID 'em on their way down.

Even if earth could be moved, it would simply fall back into orbit. Nothing would change. But if we could change the mass of earth and it magnetic properties, perhaps blast 10% of earth into space, earth's mass may change enough to naturally fall in to a new orbit steadily.

You know what would really suck? What if everybody jumped, but instead of pushing earthy farther out, it just increased the speed of rotation? Days and nights would suddenly become shorter, and we'd have 600 days in a year, even though a year is the same length. Weird.

There is no such thing as time. Time was mearly invented to measure between events. If there were no events, would there be time?

PC is everywhere!! (politically correct, that is) Things are pretty tight when a guy gets bleeped for saying ****roaches. Next, it'll be on son-of-a-**n. Vigilante- as per my prev post, it'd be fun, though, wouldn't it, if we had those 600 sunsets in the south?

if we all burned massive fires day and night for the next 5 months we could increase global warming and maybe it wouldn't be so f**king cold and wet in ireland....

Is this "outwit the techspot board censor" day or something?

seriously though, any force landing on the planet that's enough to knock it into orbit would be enough to case an earthquake instead IMHO.

no but it would be hotter than the normal 105F in the summer here in El Paso..... :hotbounce

global warming would submerge ireland, as it would other regions of the world. interestingly enough, chicago's official elevation is 666 feet above sea level (hmmmmm.....) glaciers and whatnot would melt a bit and the released waters would raise the sea level and upset the currents (via salt concentrations)

And those Irish are just stubborn enough to keep living there

The Irish are not stubborn, they are like we Germans - steadfast! He even offered to pick me up on his way to last week. A stubborn man would have kept on running, at least back to the age of chivalry, to throw down his gauntlet. ( While you're there, Irish, have 'em to get them fires goin!!!

And to Zephead: methinks Chicago's elevation might've lifted a bit after Ozzie's boys' feat! Ya think?