What is Digg?146 Comments
- dupeduperson, on 10/11/2007, -8/+404I don't think the average adult in china is 90 kg, that is about 200 lbs. This is really not a difficult thing to estimate. If we use 60 kg as the mass of each person in china (avg), then 1.3 billion people would have a mass of 78 billion kg (7.8 x 10^10 kg). Compare this to the mass of the Earth - 6x10^24 kg. The fraction of mass of the people with respect to the Earth is only 1.3x10^-12 % (so, basically, nothing).
The moral of the story, the Earth is GIANORMOUS - creoderiot, on 10/11/2007, -15/+179@diggsonlyneocon
"I swear, that's all Diggers do anymore..."
do you think that could be considered a "sweeping statement"? - Lord_oftheTrons, on 10/11/2007, -22/+173What would happen if all the robots vented their gas at the Sun at the same time? The solution to global warming is so obvious.
Futurama reference btw. - DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/11/2007, -54/+109You can't make a sweeping statement like that based on your elementary school teachers. I swear, that's all Diggers do anymore - take loosely related articles and bash America, Bush, Christianity, etc.
It's like some bad Family Guy episode. (Well this sports article's bad, but not as bad as those NEOCONS!) - ryanmetcalf, on 10/11/2007, -1/+45What would happen if 350 diggers all jumped on the server at once?
Guess we found out - Azimuth1, on 10/11/2007, -13/+49Not to mention the fact that it would move back into place when they landed thanks to Newton's third law.
- mb3581, on 10/11/2007, -6/+38I saw an article on this a couple years ago, I don't remember where, but the mass of the Earth is so large that there is no possible way that it would have any effect on it. But here is a quote from TheStraightDope "I calculate that the resultant thud in aggregate would be the equivalent of 500 tons of TNT. Not bad, but nowhere near enough to dislocate the earth, which weighs 6 sextillion, 588 quintillion short tons." http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_155.html
- Jozer99, on 10/11/2007, -1/+30@mb3581
Its 500 tons spread over the whole of china. That makes it 0.00076 lb of dynamite per person (assuming 2000lb per ton, and 1.3 billion people in China), or 0.076 lb per 100 person village. Just think of it as every village putting on a small firecracker display at the same time.
To anyone who thinks jumping could move the earth: Look up Newton's laws: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If 1 billion people jumped at the same time, they would push on the earth, and the earth would push on them. This means they go several feet in the air, and earth DOES move some teeny fraction of an inch. BUT THEN gravity kicks in, causing the people to fall back onto the earth, but also for the earth to fall back to the people. The net result is that nobody moved anywhere, and earth is just where it was in the first place. All you did was waste a terrific amount of energy to entropy. A pound of dynamite has about 2 million joules of chemical energy. So everybody in china would succeed in nothing but turning 2,000,000,000,000 (two trillion) joules of energy into waste sound, heat, and maybe a few broken hips. - Adrianc333, on 10/11/2007, -7/+32@DiggUmFrog, Don't post the DiggMirror link if it's not even caught it.
n00b. - middleclassbuzz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16What would happen if the whole population of Earth farted at once?
- TheKlaw, on 10/11/2007, -10/+24I went to an American school that was pretty good, and it was a rural public school.
- 10001110101, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16No way. Politics is far more lucrative.
But, given your moniker, you might not be a good fit. - gquaglia, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17Didn't they try this with World Jump Day last year.
- humperdeath, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15No effect on the Earth, at all. However, a siesmograph might detect a slight tremor, maybe a 1.01 magnitute or so.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10> "sorry dude but gravity is NOT a speed"
I'm not sure why you've been dugg down. Oh wait, yes I am... The average IQ on Digg is pretty ***** low.
To all: "Gravity", specifically, is a force. The "acceleration of gravity" is exactly that, an acceleration. Acceleration is a change in velocity over time. Velocity is speed *and* direction.
Therefore, gravity != a speed. - yubbob, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11What would happen if every teenager who failed intro physics commented on this page at once?
Oh, I see now... - Hemingrubbish, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12I wonder if you could counter it by getting everyone on the opposite side of the world to jump too. Inter-continental warfare by jumping. Hehe...
- blurrie, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10they should do it.
double dog dare. - Anrkist, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8People get paid to do studies like this. I'm in the wrong industry... time to tac on "Dr. Scientist Anrkist".
- kaelyiesta, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12The question should not only consider ratio of mass, but momentum (or inertia). I think the most relevant thing to consider is that the earth is not solid. Even with such a insignificant transfer of energy(comparatively), one would have to be a bit more rigorous in their analysis to say whether or not anything would happen. I imagine there might be some interesting wave propagation, even after considering the mass is not concentrated into a singular point(being spread out over many areas of china). All of this isn't to say that we'd be doomed, or even notice something. I just think that its a bit more complicated and it would be boring to just dismiss it claiming 'nothing would happen'.
- CanceledCzech, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8@zaibatsu
Whoops! Looks like someone needs to see Carl Sagan's 'The Pale Blue Dot.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw&mode=related&search=
We're definitely not significant to move the planet. Significant enough to pollute the planet and make it uninhabitable, maybe, but move it? Definitely not. - AJRiddle, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11Really though, we can see that this would do nothing because all you are doing is exerting a force on the earth, the exact same thing you are doing when you are just walking, or even just standing.
- ubermayo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8There is no money in curing AIDS or cancer, pharmaceutical & health care companies make a lot more money on sick people.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+16It's not someone else's job to make you successful, you should never claim your school to be bad... that's just an unprovoked excuse for your shortcomings.
- smackywentz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6This entire thread should be destroyed.
- numbered, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Lets compare our planet earth to a typical Rand McNally size globe. If you take the entire area from the habitable surface to the end of the atmosphere this would be comparable to the thickness of the varnish on the globe. Nothing you, me, or the entire population of the earth can do will have any significant effect to this 5973600000000000000000000 kilogram rock
- binarypower, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Not much but if all Americans were to jump... woah...
- redled, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6And I suppose at your job you're working towards a cure, and not selling useless cars, or preparing wasteful food, or designing non-lifesaving electronics, or making a webpage for a local flower store, etc..?
- xenuxenuts, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5@plusmedic
leaching off of an existing one is much easier. - sizbo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5so I guess I'm the only one to laugh at what they dubbed the event?
"gang-boing" ROLF - lithera, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I remember the Pinkpop festival in the Netherlands a couple of years ago.
During the performance of Faithless there were so many people jumping at once during some songs that the authorities later on announced that it was registered as a small earthquake, very small but it was a official one ;p
I think the Pinkpop festival has about 60.000 to 70.000 visitors. - AoiTakuma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5they are probably shooting for an IgNobel Award, given to research that is useless and sometimes very dumb
- tbrodeen, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Apparently a bunch of chinese people jumped near the SCIAM co-lo facility.
- markp93, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6They would all fall into the hole that I just finished digging.
- Fletchi18, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6@enalios
You know, there are many hard working teachers out there who try every day to make a difference in people's lives (being a former educator, I know many of them!!!). So, just because you had some bad experiences (are you sure it was only the teachers' fault...? None of the blame could ever lay on your shoulders...nope never...it was all their fault!) don't mar the perceptions of American educators with your rants. - logicalnoise, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8"It's not someone else's job to make you successful, you should never claim your school to be bad... that's just an unprovoked excuse for your shortcomings."
I never said that. My shortcomings are my own but I'm far from unsuccessful. It still doesn't excuse my high school district for slacking off on proper student protections and fufillments. - CatsAreGods, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5See Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End...
- nandop, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6oh my gosh, did i really hear this question? is this really on digg? do you swear there are scientists dedicated to this question? who pays them?
- CaptainNem0, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5one nuclear bomb is about 2000 times the amount of force of all the people in china jumping at once.
(a megaton bomb = 1,000,000 tons of TNT, mb3581 says that the chinese would be about 500 tons.)
Not to mention that we have bombs several megatons in power. - Adrianc333, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5A weak server.
Missed it. :( - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4"I saw an article on this a couple years ago, I don't remember where, but the mass of the Earth is so large that there is no possible way that it would have any effect on it. But here is a quote from TheStraightDope "I calculate that the resultant thud in aggregate would be the equivalent of 500 tons of TNT. Not bad, but nowhere near enough to dislocate the earth, which weighs 6 sextillion, 588 quintillion short tons." http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_155.html"
Props for the Straight Dope reference, that site has always kicked ass. It was one of the first websites I ever found back in my early days on the web (when leaving AOLs "walled garden"). - bsiviglia9, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Does the force required for all og them to jump equal the force of them hitting the ground?
- Preacherman, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6@firedrillduckie
Well, at least the scientists aren't spending their time posting sanctimonious comments on Digg, which is apparently how YOU are choosing to find a cure for AIDS, cancer, and diabetes. - Plower, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3What we really need to do is get all of the people in China to jump at once, and then get everyone on the opposite side of the world to jump 2 seconds later when all of those people in China should be landing and then the people in China jump 2 seconds after that and then if this is repeated over and over and....if my studies in ...algebra..and calculus....and physics...even a little bit of philosophy....are accurate I believe that we can start to shake the earth, seriously if two people can make a car shake I'm sure a few billion people can make the earth shake...
- dgaspard, on 10/11/2007, -0/+31988 LSU-Auburn game. 80,000 fans created an earthquake that registered on the seismograph. http://www.lsu.edu/highlights/033/football.html
- simpleid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Stop asking questions, just fire them!
- uncrase, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The Digg Effect: What would happen if the entire Chinese population went to the same website at once?
Scientists used the fans of a popular news site to test this question. What happened when 50,000 people jumped at once to the same URL. - Anrkist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@10001110101 - The man wont keep me down!
- mikesbaker, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3From coral:
MySQL error!
Error establishing a database connection!
1. Are you sure you have typed the correct user/password?
2. Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
3. Are you sure that the database server is running?
Wow 2 digg noobs at once
/slaps DiggUmFrog and dasilva333 at once 3 stooges style - tenrec, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Now that this is settled, what would happen if all the butterflies in the word flapped their wings in sync?
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