World Jump Day

This is definately one for those of you who are into kooky new age hooey. Did you know that if folks in certain parts of the world jump together it will cause flowers and fluffy bunnies to erupt from the crusty earth and bring world peace? I sure as $#@! didn't!
So instead of quietly masturbating into an empty bag of Oreo's that you scoffed down because you feel gross ... JUMP! It worked for Van Halen.
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Link:
Today Is World Jump Day

Arthur
Update:
Huzzah! This whole World Jump Day is a bullshit/artsy hoax!
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World Jump Day
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Less than an hour before the event, worldjumpday.com server fall.

World Jump Day is a hoax[1] global flash mob event scheduled for July 20, 2006 at 11:39.13 UTC, at which time the organization claims to have 600 million people from the western hemisphere jump simultaneously. 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 by Torsten Lauschmann (claiming to be a Professor Hans Peter Niesward from the Institute for Gravitational Physics in Munich), and in no way serious.

According to DNS lookup information, the site http://www.worldjumpday.org is hosted in UK, on http://uk2.net/ [2]. Before that, it was 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).

The counter for the site, measuring registered jumpers, is also fake. It seems to go both up and down. For a point of reference, at 21:37 on 18th July 2006, it was at 598,196,296 but just 15 minutes later it had dropped to around 598,106,000. [3] Less than 12 hours before the event the site's counter reads that there are 600,256,820 registered jumpers, almost 50% of all internet users[4].
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Read More:
Wikipedia's World Jump Information Page

Arthur
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