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World Jump Day

 
 
Simulacra
15:19 / 22.02.05
Theory is: if 600 million people jump at the same time, the force will drive Earth into a new orbit, thus stopping global warming, extending daytime hours and creating a more homogenous climate.

http://www.worldjumpday.org/

I wonder if Kriss-Kross somehow is involved in this project...

Oddly enough, there are no Google hits on the professor they are quoting, nor on the institution where he is supposed to work.
 
 
A
22:19 / 22.02.05
This is going to send the Earth spiralling into the sun again, isn't it?
 
 
madfigs #32, now with wasabi
23:01 / 22.02.05
Heh, I remember when the Communists were organizing this plan during the cold war to cause a tidal wave. A couple refutations:

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae571.cfm
http://tafkac.org/science/jumping_chinese.html

Superman could just save us from the sun, anyway.
 
 
lekvar
02:27 / 23.02.05
He already has, remember? He flew around the world really really really fast...
 
 
Triplets
22:10 / 24.02.05
Wasn't this a world saving solution in Danger Mouse? Baron Greenback had turned the solar system into a giant game of billiards with Earth as the green or somesuch.

Maybe we could outfit the Moon with some surplus boosters and play Interplanetary Mashup Croquet.
 
  
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