   July 20 - Jump Day
  This July 20th at 11:39:13 GMT, we celebrate the power of the human community by jumping:Quote:An email reminder about jump day participation:-----------------------------------------------20 JULY 2006Only days to the historical WORLD JUMP DAY!You have asked to be notified one day prior to the event.--------------------------------------------------------------Send your images and videos of your jump and get the chanceto win a special WORLD JUMP DAY T-shirt!For information about uploading, emailing or sending yourimages/videos a special page will be available on the WORLDJUMP DAY website shortly after the jump has occurred.Please be sure to begin jumping at the calculated time of11.39.13 GMT on 20 JULY 2006. The duration of the jumpshould be no less than 2 Minutes. Timing is very criticalin this experiment. We thank you for your help.Have a good Jump!Your WORLD JUMP DAY Teamwww.worldjumpday.orgThe expressed purpose of this event is an attempt to drive planet Earth into a new orbit, which would stop global warming, extend daytime hours, and create a more homogenous climate.The collective opinion of GameDev (from over a year ago) is: omg lol this is stupid.In any case, it looks doomed. There are currently 599,170,583 registered jumpers out of a minimum of 600,000,000. A good portion of the registered jumpers will probably forget, sleep in, decide against it, or encounter some obstacle. Perhaps another portion represents people who registered twice with different email addresses. Yet another represents people who already retired the address they registered with and therefore didn't get a reminder.For me, since I'm living in GMT-5, the jump event will take place at 06:39 A.M.. I haven't decided yet if I will interrupt my lovely summer vacation by waking up so early to partake in an event that will probably bear no significance whatsoever and may even possibly cause knee/ankle injury due to the equal and opposite reaction of the Earth when a large mass of people temporarily push it down.Thoughts?Oh yea, and we need 800,000 more jumpers. Quick!   
  ah yes, the same human community that kills itself.  Brilliant!   ;  Hur hur forget conservation of momentum and all that lame physics crap!  Lets jump up and down like idiots!;  I don't think this is physically possible.If it is, it's vastly improbable that we can get a group of meat-format human beings to work on cue.It's a funny joke though. I can't wait to see idiots hopping on the street. Oh wait.   ;  By the time you read this I'll probably be banned   ;Quote:Original post by Midnight BlueBy the time you read this I'll probably be bannedCongrats.. nobody cares.;  1) Global warmins is only happening by a decimal amount and does not effect our climate at all.2) By moving the planet out of its orbit will eather cause it to freeze up or burn up. The earth was placed a specific distance form the sun to prevent freezing and prevent burninating.   ;Quote:Original post by DukeAtreides076Hur hur forget conservation of momentum and all that lame physics crap!  Lets jump up and down like idiots!What he said.   ;Quote:Original post by Mr_Fhqwhgads1) Global warmins is only happening by a decimal amount and does not effect our climate at all.2) By moving the planet out of its orbit will eather cause it to freeze up or burn up. The earth was placed a specific distance form the sun to prevent freezing and prevent burninating.That's just so wrong.   ;  5:39.13AM, bleh. I get back from work at 5 am... so maybe I'll stay up just long enough and conserve just enough energy to leap once before falling into my bed.Quote:That's just so wrong.So very, very wrong...   