Would there be a difference if we voting slowly, one by one?
Per XKCD, nothing significant would happen. Even if all the people were standing in roughly the same area, the Earth would be moved by “less than an atom’s width.” If people were spread out randomly across the Earth, all the forces effectively cancel, and even less happens.
But that’s everyone jumping on land, not into the ocean.
Yes.
Oh, jumped IN at the same time. I missed an important word there.
Either/or.
Actually, I’m a physicist from the world famous ETH in Zürich Switzerland, and my team and I have been working on exactly that question for the past five years! We have created an exciting theoretical model (manuscript has been submitted to PNAS, in second round of corrections). We are now focusing on a series of experiments to substantiate our theoretical findings. Alas, Switzerland is a notoriously landlocked country, due to which such experiments are hard to realize. In addition, strict nudity in public laws apply. As a result, all our grants were canceled, and we are now unemployed.
I hope that you could at least all be nude while doing all that research work in your dark basement offices there beneath the mountains…
Nothing noticeable. Eight billion people times 100kg average mass, divided by 360 million square kilometers of ocean surface equals 2222kg/square kilometer. Or, assuming the density of a human being 1g/cm^2, a
2.22mm0.00222mm height difference. Ah, the joys of metrical calculations.EDIT: Steve pointed out that I was off with my density calculation. Thanks for the hint, coffee was obviously not yet working…
If 8 billion humans displace 50 gallons each, thats 400 billion gallons. The volume of all oceans is about 1.5 billion cubic kilometers, which is 3.96258e20 gallons.
Eh, I got tired of trying to do that math, but thats a big frickin difference. I dont think the sea level rise would be measurable.
Try metric, it is way easier. The change will be about 2mm, whatever that in elephant heights or whatever is.
If you liquefied every human on earth and poured them all into one cube, it would only be about 800M per side. Humans collectively aren’t that significant.
For comparison all insects would take up a 1km cube.
As a misanthropic Anti-Natalist that views humanity as the ultimate nightmare creature… Please tell us more about melting humans and the destruction of all sentient life!
Would there be a difference if we voting slowly, one by one?
Could you explain this sentence like I’m dumb?
I assume they’re using voice to text and meant to say “go in slowly”
Probably “went in” before a missing space and an autocorrect turned it into “voting”.
There’d be a lot of piss mixed in.
We would literally never know.
the planet Earth has a mass of 10²⁴ kg (source, Wikipedia), all humans together have a mass of 10¹² kg (source: do the math. 10 billion person · 100 kg/person). make of that what you will.
12 out of 24 — wow, so we are quitte close to absolute majority!
