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Nikki Nappi
Period E

What is everyone in the world jumped at once?
https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/54836/what-would-happen-if-everyone-jumped-once

In the scenario posed by this "What if" website, everyone in the world would stand as close as they could to one another. In this proposed scenario, the crowd is the size of the entire state of Rhode Island.



At noon, everyone jumps. This does not affect the Earth since the Earth outweighs the entire population by about 10 trillion. Humans can really only jump about half a meter high, so the Earth would only really move about half an atom.The increase of mass to the center of the Earth would increase the rate of rotation. Huge earthquakes only increase the earths rotation by 100,000ths of a second. However, the current population of the earth would need to increase by seven million times what it is now to even make that much of a difference. The collective mass of the population of the world is not enough to make a whole lot happen, and is very little compared to the Earth.

When everyone landed back on the ground, a lot of energy is delivered into the Earth. However, since it is spread out so far, only a slight pulse of pressure would go through the continent and quickly go away. There is a loud, drawn out sound from the sound of everyone's feet hitting the ground that could last for seconds.

 Everyone's cell phones would have no signal since the load caused some networks to collapse. 

The T.F. Green Airport in Warwick could handle thousands of passengers a day at a rate of 500% capacity for years without even making a dent in the crowd. Ships and rail systems fits millions, but having sufficient food and water is hard. People use their cars and back up the highways with the largest traffic jam ever. The few cars that make it out of the traffic mess only make it until about Boston or New York before running out of fuel. 

People are not very friendly. Everyone is hungry and thirsty and there are almost no resources left after a while. Soon, Rhode Island is nothing but a graveyard.The orbit of the Earth is pretty much unaffected, but the people on it definitely were. 

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