Are you trying to suggest that I took them seriously? Come on. I was asking that they put a bit of thought into their joke to make it more than simply "dumb". A large part of the humor in these kind of hoaxes is that someone *could* take them seriously.
<sigh> -- Matt ----- Original Message ---- From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:28:06 AM Subject: Re: Global Warming Solution At 02:14 AM Wednesday 7/19/2006, Matt Grimaldi wrote: >It seems to me that they got the physics wrong. If everyone in the >world were to jump at the same exact moment, won't most of them >either be useless (adding energy in a direction that does not add to >the orbital momentum) or counterproductive (actually *subtracting* >orbital energy? I would think that each time zone should jump at >the same (magic) time of day, so that they can ensure that they're >adding their energy to the earth's orbit. Instead of one useless >"big" push in all directions at once, the Earth can get 24-39 >"small" pushes in the same direction. > >-- Matt > >All this so we might add some infintessimal fraction of a second to >the length of a year. "Humor...it is a difficult concept." --Lt. Saavik (Kirstie Alley) to Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) in _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn_ <<http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/news/worldjumpday.html>> --Ronn! :) I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed that I would see the last. --Dr. Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
