Scientist Hilariously Answers What Would Happen If Everybody On Earth Jumped At The Same Time
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you put a toaster in a freezer? Would it work? And what if you built a staircase that goes all the way to space, how long would it take to climb it? It’s safe to say that all kinds of weird questions cross our mind once in a while, but is there anyone out there to answer them? Luckily, we have Randall Munroe, a cartoonist and scientist who answers all kinds of random questions in his blog called ‘What If?’. Recently, he answered a rather popular question ‘What would happen in everybody on earth jumped at the same time?’.
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Randall Munroe is an American cartoonist and scientist behind the webcomic called XKCD
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Recently, he tried to explain what would happen if everybody on earth were to jump at the same time
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...and written in a great way - and an unexpected turn. Everything a good story needs.
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new title SCIENTIST FINDS OUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE ENTIRE HUMAN POPULATION WAS SUDDENLY TRANSPORTED TO ROAD ISLAND
But what if everyone jumps at the same time, where they are, and not all at the same location?
A person on one side of the Earth would cancel out a person on the exact opposite side.
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"Any two people who meet are unlikely to have a language in common." Depending on one's definition of "unlikely", I'm not sure that this is in fact correct. It's a bit like how many* people are needed in a group to get a 50% chance of having birthdays on the same day. I might actually sit down and work out the probability if I can get a list of how many speakers there are for each language that constitute, say, languages spoken by 90% of the global population. The trouble is that it'll be complicated by the number and distribution of multilinguists, and even though I can do multivariate stats I'm not up on probability sufficiently that I can quickly work out the formulation for that... (*The answer is 23.)
Actually he should have started with the chaos that would come with bringing all the world's population to one place. Also : what about all the people who cannot jump : too young (babies), too old, people with handicaps, etc... ?
I have the book it's called "What If" definitely read it you'll thank me
This was published on August 21st 2012. Bored Panda have a strange definition of "recently".
If everyone hula-hooped at one time, would it start a freakish storm?
I don't know... when everybody jumped on the elevator at once, it stopped.
Woohoo! He actually knows where TFGreene is! I can't count the number of times I've seen it located "in Providence". /Rhode Islandah
"Recently, he answered a rather popular question ‘What would happen in everybody on earth jumped at the same time?’." And, by "recently", they mean "over six years ago." I guess, in traditional ways of thinking about linear time, that's "recent", but, well, in Internet time, that's forever.
#1--What else did people think would happen if everyone on the planet jumped at the same time? #2--Why put everyone in one place? #3--Would 7 billion people really fit on just Rhode Island? I figured you'd need a lot more room than that? Or is that part of the joke?
#1 -- Alot of people just don't get physics or even gravity. #2 -- If everyone stayed where they are and jumped, a person on one side of the Earth would cancel out a person on the exact opposite side. #3 -- With a surface area of 3140 km², every person would have just under half a square meter of room (about 5 ft²). We'd be standing shoulder to shoulder, but we could fit.
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...and written in a great way - and an unexpected turn. Everything a good story needs.
Load More Replies... new title SCIENTIST FINDS OUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE ENTIRE HUMAN POPULATION WAS SUDDENLY TRANSPORTED TO ROAD ISLAND
But what if everyone jumps at the same time, where they are, and not all at the same location?
A person on one side of the Earth would cancel out a person on the exact opposite side.
Load More Replies... "Any two people who meet are unlikely to have a language in common." Depending on one's definition of "unlikely", I'm not sure that this is in fact correct. It's a bit like how many* people are needed in a group to get a 50% chance of having birthdays on the same day. I might actually sit down and work out the probability if I can get a list of how many speakers there are for each language that constitute, say, languages spoken by 90% of the global population. The trouble is that it'll be complicated by the number and distribution of multilinguists, and even though I can do multivariate stats I'm not up on probability sufficiently that I can quickly work out the formulation for that... (*The answer is 23.)
Actually he should have started with the chaos that would come with bringing all the world's population to one place. Also : what about all the people who cannot jump : too young (babies), too old, people with handicaps, etc... ?
I have the book it's called "What If" definitely read it you'll thank me
This was published on August 21st 2012. Bored Panda have a strange definition of "recently".
If everyone hula-hooped at one time, would it start a freakish storm?
I don't know... when everybody jumped on the elevator at once, it stopped.
Woohoo! He actually knows where TFGreene is! I can't count the number of times I've seen it located "in Providence". /Rhode Islandah
"Recently, he answered a rather popular question ‘What would happen in everybody on earth jumped at the same time?’." And, by "recently", they mean "over six years ago." I guess, in traditional ways of thinking about linear time, that's "recent", but, well, in Internet time, that's forever.
#1--What else did people think would happen if everyone on the planet jumped at the same time? #2--Why put everyone in one place? #3--Would 7 billion people really fit on just Rhode Island? I figured you'd need a lot more room than that? Or is that part of the joke?
#1 -- Alot of people just don't get physics or even gravity. #2 -- If everyone stayed where they are and jumped, a person on one side of the Earth would cancel out a person on the exact opposite side. #3 -- With a surface area of 3140 km², every person would have just under half a square meter of room (about 5 ft²). We'd be standing shoulder to shoulder, but we could fit.
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