I am not being racist before anyone starts shouting at me. But China has a very big population, what would happen if every person there stood on a chair and jumped off at the same time ? would it cause such a big shake that a tidal wave would appear .
2006-12-29 13:43:10 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I don`t think you are being racist, but I have several Chinese friends who would take a very dim view of the suggestion.
2006-12-29 16:01:19 · answer #1 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How is that racist? A large population is just a fact.
I don't think that even if the entire population of the world jumped off a chair that it would affect the earth, causing tidal waves & earthquakes. We are not quite that strong. We don't weigh enough. Not even after pigging out over the holidays! Don't worry. Jumping off a chair in your own home won't bring the house down so all of us jumping won't bring down our homes, towns, cities, countries, continents.
Global warming is another story. If we all go out & buy gas-guzzling SUVs & keep driving them (and wasting energy in countless other ways) we will continue to pollute the planet, deplete the ozone layer & increase the effects of global warming, thus causing typhoons etc...
2006-12-29 22:07:34 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I do not think so, once I read in a book in México(when I used to live there, I miss my country) that the population of China is not enough to cause a big shake, to cause it all the people of the earth should to jump at the same time and it only would cause a little earthquake. Bye.
2006-12-30 09:02:27 · answer #3 · answered by Alfred 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No honey because a tidal wave happens in the ocean. Maybe if every China person jumped into the sea at the same time this would happen. Shall we ask them to do it? Purely in the interests of science.
2006-12-29 21:47:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
i heard about a scenerio similar to this before (i cant remember when or where) - i seem to recall that the impact would be absorbed by the earth with little to no effect - i do know that if a group of people large enough were to do this to create a significant shockwave capable of doing damage, the wave would eventually travel the whole way around the world and come right back to them; not a very good idea
2006-12-29 22:06:24 · answer #5 · answered by -skrowzdm- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think yes it might cause a shake but not a big one..and a tidal wave may appear but in a limited space not in the whole world..:)
2006-12-29 21:56:58 · answer #6 · answered by amadora 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At an averaged out weight of 1.0 X 10^11 in people pounds, not much of anything in the way of shakes. The weight of the earth is estimated at 5.95 X !0^18 metric tons. Seven orders of magnitude greater in weight. Think billions to SEXTILLIONS. That is billions of pounds to sextillions of tons.
2006-12-29 22:01:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, this is just an urban myth, everything is controlled by gravity and unless the shock caused a large piece of an island to drop into the sea, no one would know it had happened
2006-12-30 04:00:25 · answer #8 · answered by michael k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think a tidal wave but maybe an earthquake
2006-12-29 21:54:21 · answer #9 · answered by Danielle F 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It reflects that you dont like big population. Dont worry about it. God is not yet through with humanity. If i tell you a group exists to eliminate their population, maybe you are primary protester of this act.
2006-12-29 22:01:06 · answer #10 · answered by wilma m 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋