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The World Jump Day was an event scheduled for July 20, 2006 at 11:39.13 UTC, at which time the organization claimed to have 600 million people from the western hemisphere jump simultaneously. They claimed this would move the Earth out of its orbit, and into a new one, one that would not cause global warming. The site was a hoax,〔(Scottish Arts Council - Archive - Artist: Torsten Lauschmann )〕 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. The German student association Lambda Omega Lambda provided hosting and programming services. == Origins and participation == According to DNS lookup information, the site worldjumpday.org is hosted in the UK, on UK2.〔(Geo IP Tool - View my IP information )〕 Before that, it was registered to Torsten Lauschmann. Lauschman is a German artist currently living in Glasgow. This hoax has been put forth in the "media" before, as an item in the Weekly World News in 1993, according to (this link ). The idea is also noted in the feature film Pay It Forward. A school kid outlines his plan to create a website encouraging all the kids in China to jump up and down at the same time. To this his teacher, played by Kevin Spacey, remarks: "The goal being to knock the earth off its axis.." The idea is also used as a key feature in the cult UK TV show Danger Mouse. In a classic season 10 episode, 'The Intergalactic 147', Danger Mouse and Penfold manage to convince world leaders to jump to the left to roll the earth out of the way, so as to not be potted into a black hole, in a bizarre game of intergalactic snooker. The counter for the site, measuring registered jumpers, was also inaccurate. The number of registered jumpers would go both up and down. For a point of reference, at 21:37 on 18 July 2006, it was at 598,196,296 but just 15 minutes later it had dropped to around 598,106,000.〔Upon packet sniffing when loading the website, the following text was revealed: &count_jumpers=599187280&&count_jumpers_real=248086&〕 Less than 12 hours before the event the site's counter read that there were 600,256,820 registered jumpers, over 50% of all internet users.〔http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm World Stats〕抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Jump Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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