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EVERYONE JUMP
Earlier, we were posed with the question "What would happen if everyone jumped at the same time?". Would this have an affect on a mass as large as the Earth. Although it seems that everyone jumping at the same time would cause some sort of impact, the most impact that is produced of this event would be the sound of 7 billion people jumping. It seems reasonable to assume that the earth would more slightly, but the recoil speed of the earth would be very miniscule.
No one would even realize that the Earth moved the amount of one atom. This is because the Earth is heavier than all the people who inhabit it by over 10 trillion. Once everyone realizes that this silly experiment amounted to nothing, there would be a major problem. How would everyone be able to make it back to their hometowns. If everyone is in Rhode Island, it would take extremely long to move people back. 
T.F. Green is not the largest airport by any means. This airport can handle a few thousand passengers per day. Even if the airport began to transport more people than usual, years later there would still be a large portion of the people there. But wait theres more. Even if the airport would take years to move people back, all the people would die by the time the airport could bring them back home. No one would be working on the farms and providing nourishment to the world. Some people would spread out over the U.S. and Canada, but after some separation occurred, people would become savages for food and people would revert to their survival instincts. Not only would the population be dramatically reduced, but the course of the future would be drastically altered. 

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