This is the first global flash mob event scheduled for 7/20/2006 at 10:39:13 or 11:39.13 GMT. The site is trying to organize to have 600 million people from the western hemisphere jump simultaneously. The site claims that this will move the Earth out of its current orbit, and into a new one, one that will not cause global warming.
If the problem can go away this easy…
According to Wikepedia…
” The site is an art installation, and in no way serious.
World Jump Day’s claim is completely unscientific. It is impossible to permanently change the Earth’s orbit using the planet’s own mass, which includes that of the world’s population, unless such mass is ejected from the Earth at great velocity (see Newton’s third law of motion). Even suspending some of the known laws of physics, the difference would be negligible: the combined mass of the world’s population is too small to cause any significant shift in the planet’s orbit; and since Earth’s orbit is elliptic, there are already great variations in its distance from the Sun (about 5,000,000 km) with no generally noticeable changes in temperature.
According to DNS lookup information, the site http://www.worldjumpday.org is registered to Torsten Lauschmann. Lauschman is a German artist currently living in Glasgow. His website, http://www.lauschmann.com, links to the World Jump Day website and a tour where he travelled under the name “Slender Whiteman” (http://www.slenderwhiteman.com)”
I give prop to the artist for this project. I wonder how many people actually plan on attempting?
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