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World Jump Day

 
 
Simulacra
18:19 / 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.
 
 
Adam wages war on wack MCs
01:19 / 23.02.05
This is going to send the Earth spiralling into the sun again, isn't it?
 
 
madfigs, world's #4 detective
(prev. Great madfigs Brigade)
02:01 / 23.02.05
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
05:27 / 23.02.05
He already has, remember? He flew around the world really really really fast...
 
 
The Freewheeling Convo
(prev. Triplets)
01:10 / 25.02.05
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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