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mr_goo
mr_goo Posts: 3,770
edited November 2012 in The bottom bracket
That if the entire population of the world gathered in one place and all jumped at the same time. The earth would move by one tenth the width of a hydrogen atom.
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  • lucan2
    lucan2 Posts: 293
    Who says?
  • whojanicanackerov
    whojanicanackerov Posts: 383
    More to the point who cares
  • DrKJM
    DrKJM Posts: 271
    Lucan2 wrote:
    Who says?

    This guy.

    http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/

    As to who cares, well its fun for those of us on the geekier side to consider these ridiculous calcs. Some good stuff on the xkcd whatif strand.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    So if we jumped for ages does this mean we could dislodge Stoke. :D
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Mr Goo wrote:
    That if the entire population of the world gathered in one place and all jumped at the same time. The earth would move by one tenth the width of a hydrogen atom.
    Fair enough, but it would have to be in UK 'cos Abu Qatada refuses to leave. :oops:
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    'They' used to say the world's population could fit on The Isle of Wight, did the population increase so much that they had to move this imaginary feat to Rhode Island?

    Bl00dy Americans! :D

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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,946
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    So if we jumped for ages does this mean we could dislodge Stoke. :D

    No.

    Sh1t sticks.


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  • jordan_217
    jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    Can we do this at my place of work? I have an absolute cun7 who sits next to me that we could all jump on (and team47b - he's an American (a smelly, obnoxious one!)
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  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    So if we jumped for ages does this mean we could dislodge Stoke. :D

    Would you want to dislodge Stoke? There is no knowing where it might go to.....
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  • jim453
    jim453 Posts: 1,360
    Mr Goo wrote:
    That if the entire population of the world gathered in one place and all jumped at the same time. The earth would move by one tenth the width of a hydrogen atom.

    Why don't we try it. Careful though, Chasey might fall into the gap.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,329
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    So if we jumped for ages does this mean we could dislodge Stoke. :D

    Just Stoke ? What about Milton keynes, Swindon and Margate ?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,329
    We had something like this before:

    viewtopic.php?f=30005&t=12872644&p=17807752#p17807752
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • lawrences
    lawrences Posts: 1,011
    The world population could fit in an apple.
  • DrKJM
    DrKJM Posts: 271
    lawrences wrote:
    The world population could fit in an apple.

    Only if you squeezed them all VERY hard. Don't think you'd get much sense out of them afterwards.

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