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Bouncing UK Children Cause Earthquake

Posted by timothy on from the up-and-down-simultaneously-sounds-impossible dept.

Xibalba writes: "This is kinda cool. One million children in the UK jumped up and down simultaneously in an attempt to see what would seismically happen." This cries out to become an annual (and international) all-ages event. Bounce! Bounce! Gain weight! Bounce! Repeat.

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  1. Re:Consequence? by Dutchie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It will create a 3600 Richter earthquake!

    Yeah, except the Richter scale is logaritmic. So a Richter 4 is 10 times as strong as a Richter 3. So to cause a Richter 10, 10^7 * 1M people would need to be bouncing up and down.

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  2. No by unformed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're British scientists. We don't need reasons to do things, just cool things to do.

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    The Lameness filter can filter this.

  3. Re:To no use by Chester+K · · Score: 5, Insightful

    However as directly useless as this may be to science it's doubtless opened the eye's of Britians youth to what promises to be only the first of the many pointless exercises they will be required to go through in their lives, always a lesson worth learning.

    It also could have interested a few children in seismology, or science in general, and some of those children may grow up to become a world-reknowned scientist who discovers a way to accurately predict earthquakes, saving innumerable lives.

    But it's much more fun to be jaded, isn't it?

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