WJD - A Hoax
This post is a continuation to my previous one on World Jump Day. Well like I had written previously, this thing was too good (rather too much a farce) to be true and so it turned out to be. Here are some facts that i got from websites on this concept and the man behind it.
World Jump Day is the first global flash mob event scheduled for July 20, 2006 at 11:39.13 GMT, at which time the organization plans to have 600 million people from the western hemisphere jump simultaneously (currently there are more than 440.000.000 registered jumpers). They claim this will move the Earth out of its current orbit, and into a new one, one that will not cause global warming. The site is an art installation, and in no way serious.
World Jump Day's claim is completely unscientific. It is impossible to permanently change the Earth's orbit using the planet's own mass, which includes that of the world's population, unless such mass is ejected from the Earth at great velocity. See Newton's third law of motion. Even suspending some of the known laws of physics, the difference would be negligible: the combined mass of the world's population is too small to cause any significant shift in the planet's orbit; and since Earth's orbit is elliptic, there are already great variations in its distance from the Sun (about 5,000,000 km) with no generally noticeable changes in temperature.
According to DNS lookup information, the site http://www.worldjumpday.org is registered to Torsten Lauschmann. Lauschman is a German artist currently living in Glasgow. His website, http://www.lauschmann.com, links to the World Jump Day website and a tour where he travelled under the name "Slender Whiteman" (http://www.slenderwhiteman.com)
Now, the question is who is this guy? Here are some facts on him.
As an artist, filmmaker and live performer, Torsten Lauschmann celebrates glitches and out-takes, bits in between and images that might be easy to ignore. Born in Bad Soden, Germany (1970), and now based in Glasgow, over the past decade his work has evolved beyond straight photography and film works to investigate the mechanics of digital processes, software creation, experimental editing, approaches to performance and the sculptural potential of video installation. He creates new software for mixing AV freely available to all, holds workshops and screenings on video art practices, and produces sites specifically for other new media practices.
His recent World Jump Day scam (as Professor Hans Peter Niesward from the Institute for Gravitational Physics in Munich) was the most talked about viral jam of 2005, encouraging scientists and bloggers from around the world to discuss the physics of World Jump Day's plan to shift the earth's orbit and reverse global warming.'
Do check out his previous website -
Pretty good website.
So there goes another hoax - WJD.
World Jump Day is the first global flash mob event scheduled for July 20, 2006 at 11:39.13 GMT, at which time the organization plans to have 600 million people from the western hemisphere jump simultaneously (currently there are more than 440.000.000 registered jumpers). They claim this will move the Earth out of its current orbit, and into a new one, one that will not cause global warming. The site is an art installation, and in no way serious.
World Jump Day's claim is completely unscientific. It is impossible to permanently change the Earth's orbit using the planet's own mass, which includes that of the world's population, unless such mass is ejected from the Earth at great velocity. See Newton's third law of motion. Even suspending some of the known laws of physics, the difference would be negligible: the combined mass of the world's population is too small to cause any significant shift in the planet's orbit; and since Earth's orbit is elliptic, there are already great variations in its distance from the Sun (about 5,000,000 km) with no generally noticeable changes in temperature.
According to DNS lookup information, the site http://www.worldjumpday.org is registered to Torsten Lauschmann. Lauschman is a German artist currently living in Glasgow. His website, http://www.lauschmann.com, links to the World Jump Day website and a tour where he travelled under the name "Slender Whiteman" (http://www.slenderwhiteman.com)
Now, the question is who is this guy? Here are some facts on him.
As an artist, filmmaker and live performer, Torsten Lauschmann celebrates glitches and out-takes, bits in between and images that might be easy to ignore. Born in Bad Soden, Germany (1970), and now based in Glasgow, over the past decade his work has evolved beyond straight photography and film works to investigate the mechanics of digital processes, software creation, experimental editing, approaches to performance and the sculptural potential of video installation. He creates new software for mixing AV freely available to all, holds workshops and screenings on video art practices, and produces sites specifically for other new media practices.
His recent World Jump Day scam (as Professor Hans Peter Niesward from the Institute for Gravitational Physics in Munich) was the most talked about viral jam of 2005, encouraging scientists and bloggers from around the world to discuss the physics of World Jump Day's plan to shift the earth's orbit and reverse global warming.'
Do check out his previous website -
Pretty good website.
So there goes another hoax - WJD.
posted by GRAM at 10:18 AM
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