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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. Bush Energy Plan by Dutchie · · Score: 2, Troll

    Enuf said...

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  4. Re:The same effect could be had easier by Aztech · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nah... I think his leadership role is far great than his jumping/ape capabilities. He really knows how to rally those MS troops.

  5. Californians SHOULD NOT DO THIS!!! by kninja · · Score: 0, Troll
    Imagine what would happen if California (probably near the size of (some say Great)Britain) had a few million people jumping up and down. That might rush the destruction of the part that will fall into the ocean eventually. It probably won't affect anything, since plate techtonics are the key factor involved, but I don't think it would help any either.

    And if those schoolchildren were synchronized, the effect could have been much greater and actually have lead to some science being done, instead of a Bill Nye the Science Guy type of discovery.


    The chinese and indian schoolchildren could destroy Britain.

  6. Re:"Metric Tons" of Energy? by SIGFPE · · Score: 1, Troll

    Mass and energy are interchangeable. E=mc^2 'n' all that. Fortunately for us those jumping kids caused a mini-black hole that swallowed them up otherwise there'd be nothing left of the Earth or the Moon after a 75,000 ton energy burst...

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  7. It's a good thing it wasn't American children by HongPong · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ours are so much fatter than the Brits', who knows what would have happened! (It's true, Americans are the fattest people on earth)

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