Even if I did believe what Algore is preaching these days, I'm still not sure this would help:
Hans Peter Niesward, from the Department of Gravitationsphysik at the ISA in Munich, says we can stop global warming in one fell swoop -- or, more accurately, in one big jump.
The slightly disheveled professor states his case on WorldJumpDay.org, an Internet site created to recruit 600,000,000 people to jump simultaneously on July 20 at 11:39:13 GMT in an effort to shift Earth's position.
Niesward claims that on this day "Earth occupies one of the most fragile positions in its orbits for the last 100 years." According to the site, the shift in orbit will "stop global warming, extend daytime hours and create a more homogeneous climate."
What's even scarier is the fact that the article claims that over 600 million people have signed up for this (which the article hints is actually a hoax by some performance artist), and a check of their website says they are just slightly over the 599 million mark. I guess you really can fool most of the people some of the time .
posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:38 PM