[time-nuts] Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis

[J. Forster]

Why do you need them to jump at all?

If you got all the Chinese to just stand on a chair, it would increase the
Moment of Inertia of the earth a smitch, and it would slow the rotation
because of the Conservation of Angular Momentum.

-John

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> On 7/14/2011 2:02 PM, Steve Rooke wrote:
>>
>> Well, if everyonel climbed Everest and we all jumped up and down
>> together, perhaps we could achieve that :)
>>
>> Cheers, Steve
>>
>>
>
> I can't resist moving this off-topic thread by a giant leap.
>
> I have a 1969 R. Crumb comic book starring Fritz the Cat. In one story,
> Fritz discovers the Chinese have a rocket program. The rocket is powered
> by the vast population blowing into tubes.
>
> I didn't think this was practical but it did occur to me that they could
> have a workable WMD (although the term wasn't yet popular) if they got
> all the Chinese to climb up on a chair and jump down at exactly the same
> time (give or take a few milliseconds). Back in 1969 this wasn't
> workable because there was no way to get everyone jumping in sync. We
> all know that devices that could coordinate this event are becoming
> common and pretty cheap. You could reduce the required number of
> accurate clocks by gathering the jumpers into large venues like
> auditoriums or sporting arenas. Or just broadcast a count down from
> local radio stations with good clocks.
>
> Seems most of us are making our recent purchases of accurate timing
> devices from sellers in China. Is that just a coincidence?
>
>
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