He also answered the question they meant. But this is just one calculation and the answer is simple and boring, so he continued with the more interesting part of the story.
I'd say the lack of food and water will kill most. So some place where the survivors of the outer layers can live of the land. (All infrastructure, such as logistics, sanitation and modern agriculture will be gone for a loooong time)
Id say probably a large city in europe that has a seriously robust and international train network. Plenty of farming in europe, trains can ferry a ton of passengers and food. Many coastal cities are within spitting distance of most other countries and thus have ships, containers etc. Edit: Actually now that Ive thought about it, the biggest factor for fatalities would likely be just that the people in the middle of the crowd of 8 billion people are literally unable to walk and will eventually die from the elements and thirst. This alone would likely contribute many billions of death since you just cant walk through people. Therefore an area with mild climate that can permeate the crowd with the largest number of deep flowing fresh water and relatively clean rivers would probably be a requirement. This allows a large number of people to gain fresh water as well as provide people a mode of transportation (floating in the water is better than standing for a week). Would ideally need to have a few main cities on the path of the tributaries, ideally with rail networks, or port cities.
@avionyellow1712 OP suggested "best". Every option will have a massive body count. Well, the option where the wizard puts everything back is probably best.
I like how 7,000,000,000 people jumping in one spot did nothing to the world, but getting those 7,000,000,000 people out of the one spot is what would cause the chaos.
Everyone who was in surgery or on life support probably died soon after they were teleported. Everyone who was deep diving experienced rapid decompression. Even assuming clothes would be teleported, quite a few people arrived naked (those who were showering, taking a bath, etc.). About a third of people arrived asleep.
For this coordinated jump to be possible, everyone would need to know what to do. So we can assume that the wizard would send everyone like a telepathic message 5 minutes earlier or so. Enough time to leave the water, put on some clothes ect. But sure, the people in surgery or on life support would be screwed. And it wouldn't even help if we say we exclude handicapped people from the scenario, because then they would be left behind abandoned and helpless.
It's funny how the action of everyone jumping at the same time wouldn't cause some post-apocalyptic event, but the aftermath of getting everyone to the same area in the first place would.
@@jeffbenton6183 It's not so much a matter of whether they know how they got there as if they were able to prepare for it in advance. If we had a few years to stock food in RI, ensure critical infrastructure can run without intervention for a few days, and position other vital resources where they need to be in advance, casualties could be greatly reduced. But if it just suddenly happened without knowing and preparing in advance? Yeah, this video describes it pretty well.
I love how half of this video isn't even about the jumping simultaneously thing, it's about how would people live if they were suddenly and abruptly all brought together with no reason
Makes you wonder - if you didn't assume that a wizard teleported everyone to Rhode Island and instead everyone on the planet agreed to all travel to Rhode Island however they could by a certain deadline, what % of the world population could actually arrive there before the apocalypse starts. I'm quite sure we never even make it to The Jump, society as we know it crumbles somewhere in the process of trying to get everyone to same location.
I wonder if that takes into account the space taken by construction and buildings. Sure calculating the area we would take is one thing, but calculating an area big enough for literally everyone standing next to each other not inside buildings or in places people can't stand, let along jump on, is a whole different thing
i would say thats unlikely to happen in that situation given that theres no actual barrier that stops people from spreading out and no immediate urge to get anywhere
@@KabiPac Somebody falls into somebody, maybe a few more people get knocked over, and people ARE trying to do something. It's probably not going to end well...
@@KabiPacthe people are the barrier. Theres no way 8 billion people will manage to cooperate enough in this situation to spread out before most people in the middle have been smothered to death
@@KabiPac I believe those calculations are based on there being options for outlets for people. There aren't any in this case, the people _are_ the barrier for miles in every direction. Lots of people in this crowd are going to be in the middle of various kinds of crises (and many crises will start in the first ten minutes) and people move around in response to crises in and near them.
Thomas: "What would happen if everyone got together in one place and jumped?" Randall: "We wouldn't be heavy enough to affect the Earth's orbit." Thomas: "Damn, I guess nothing would happen." Randall: "That's not what I said."
As someone born and raised in Rhode Island, it is genuinely disarming to hear anyone outside of our state talk about ANYTHING specific about it. Also you know what? Yeah. I never really thought about it, but T.F. Green DOES have exceptionally nice bathrooms for an airport.
Best airport I've ever flown in and out of. It's the only airport I know of that I can wake up in my own bed and be on a plane in less than an hour with Dunkin in hand.
The airport bathroom praise had me floored, that was my exact thought when I was there a few months back and I did not expect it to get referenced by anyone 🤣
I've seen worse translations on way higher production values on this site. After the last one I watched (with a Japanese guest on the channel, even!), I'm just pleased the translation was entirely natural and grammatically correct. But maybe you'll empathize with how suspicious that word 火消し was for me. I've been tricked a lot by unusual readings in strange places, and my first guess sounded weird in my head, so I didn't believe it was actually the most straightforward possible pronunciation.
So far he’s pulling questions from the first what if book, just wait for the second one. Like half of the questions result in human extinction, the earth being destroyed, or the galaxy being destroyed.
This reminds me of last Monday, when a lot of people managed to get to northern New Hampshire, not far from Rhode Island, in time for a scheduled event, and then were up to 12 hours late getting home due to traffic. Fortunately, the eclipse wasn't so popular that society collapsed while they were away.
We spent three days at a beautiful lake in rural Indiana, had a small beach all to ourselves for the eclipse and drove home without traffic the next day. Planning ahead is key.
Fun fact: Assuming a person landing after their jump makes a pulse of sound at about 60 decibels (tested it myself with my smartphone mic), then 8 billion people doing so at the exact same spot would correspond to a sound of 156 decibels, which is about 4x louder than a jet engine firing at maximum throttle at point blank range. I reality the noise would not be that loud because the crowd is spread over a massive area and not condensed into one point, so the noise from the outer edges of the crowd takes a while to reach the center of the crowd, and vice versa. You can still expect a short but deafening blast of noise when the 8 billion people land, though. People not close to the edges of the crowd are at risk of hearing damage from this.
I feel like having it spread out across an entire state instead of an exact point would make it much less than deafening due to tbe inverse square law + some frequencies dampening / "cancelling out" as different harmonic frequencies from landing on different materials not only amplify but also interfere.
Other alien: "You dumbass it was civilisation ending not world ending. The non-sapient descendents of humanity still chug along well in the wilds alongside the reclaimed nature."
Alien: "Oh so this "rhode island" must be dangerous and cursed then, did you not know of the danger it contained?" Human: "Oh no rhode island isn't actually that bad of a place, sure theres better places, but theres also much worse. The issue was everyone being there at once that was the issue."
I feel like the one about the Earth stopping spinning would be a little bit more interesting. To avoid the heat of the day and night, you have to stay in the permanent twilight band that moves around the Earth, circling it once per year.
A stone slab left atop the ruins of Rhode Island reads: "This place is a message. Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. There is danger here. The danger exists in your time, as it existed in ours. The danger is only unleashed if you gather eight billion people and make them jump all at once. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited."
Honestly the jump was harmless. The danger is gathering eight billion people. That's just... too many mouths and butts for such a small area to contend with.
@@Archgeek0 I think this is a reference to the monuments considered for long term storage facilities for radio active waste. The problem is: how do you communicate to a future civilization that we don't know and who don't know us in 10000 years time to not dig there archeologically or theologically or just out of curiosity?
@@Archgeek0 Therein lies the spider's web. Some fools are going to take our warning as a challenge one day or another. The hell if I'm going into the apocalypse alone.
@@tilad1420 Oh of course, that's what makes it funny - I'm just saying the "and" clause isn't needed, as the danger is unleashed without anything more than gathering that many people together.
Errors in this What-If introduced by the passage of time: * There are now sixteen billion feet, not twelve billion * Fewer people have flip phones * Someone coughing in a dense crowd would be _way_ scarier now
This is hilarious. The jump does nothing, but the effect of everyone being transported to a single location causes a dystopian apocalyptic future. This was the most entertaining way to answer, "nothing," that I've ever seen.
Seems a lot of people were unaware of xkcd before the youtube channel and don't know these are old what-if questions. Well I guess they're part of today's lucky 10,000! I really hope Randall does all of them, I absolutely love the we comic and what if series. I also would love to hear a physics (or given the creator's history, robotics) lecture in the style of "Up Goer 5"
It's pretty terrifying that most people allow private algorithms to decide what they will encounter on the internet instead of choosing like we all once did. I've even heard that some young people use TikTok as a search engine. The mind boggles.
I've had the "what if?" book for a long time now, and this has always been my favorite fact. I am dyslexic and reading in school made me feel stupid and agitated. this book was what taught me to enjoy reading and ever since I've made reading part of my daily routine. that wouldn't have been possible without your work and i can't thank you enough for it!
"moments later I-95, I-195 and I-295 become the sites of the largest traffic jams in the history of the planet" That just sounds like an average weekday in Rhode Island at 8am.
@@weemissile no... no, there isn't. in no way is "teleporting everyone to the same location instantly and then dealing with the consequences" analogous to "cross-cultural acceptance."
@@weemissile definitely not your post is implying that there is a lesson to be learned that bringing different people together tears people apart and that people should stay in theyre country if you know what I mean that might not have been the intended implication but its what it sounds like when read
My favorite one is his subversion of, "What would happen if the Sun vanished?" and went on about how easy it would be to drive across rivers and lakes due to the water freezing, how easy it would be for us to see the stars in our galaxy, and oh, we'd also die within a few hours due to not receiving any heat from our now-vanished sun.
As someone who flies in and out of TF Green about once a month, here is random TF Green bathroom fact that will change your experience flying in or out of it. The front surface of the top of the urinals is highly and I do mean HIGHLY reflective, which means you might accidentally look at every single person's wiener all at once without meaning to. Once you know it, you can't unknow it. You won't even do it in purpose. You will walk in, see wieners, and then remember "Don't look at the wieners."
@@jackcraftsolar definition of "viral": of the nature of, caused by, or relating to a virus or viruses. "a severe viral infection" Does that mean you have an infection? Why are you celebrating?
How could they change the orbit anyway? The humans on the earth are a closed system. There's no transfer of mass/momentum, so there is zero net force. Whatever impulse the earth got when the humans jumped off, gets cancelled back the moment they land.... Unless someone manages to get yeeted out on at escape velocity. The orbit, the rotating, everything stays absolutely unchanged. Well if you ignore the mass extinction event from the attempt
Every time I hear this question answered, there is no mention of the fact that it wouldn't matter how much people weighed compared to the Earth, the orbit could never be affected by such an event. The mass of people and the planet would momentarily move away from each other, then back toward each other due to gravity. There would be no net movement one way or the other.
It would if everyone jumped at escape velocity! 😋 But then everyone would die alot quicker. As a massive plasma ball of meat and fluids tearing thru the sky.
It would matter though. If people weigh somewhere near the same order of magnitude as the entire Earth, the amount of energy released by the friction and shock of the jump would be astronomical. I don't know how much energy could realistically escape within those conditions but it's not absurd to think that enough could escape that it would have an effect, at least until you do the math.
If the Earth was perfectly rigid, that would be correct. But the Earth deforms when you apply enough force. That deformation is why earthquakes alter the orbit of Earth ever so slightly.
More credibly, suddenly moving the mass of all those people to one point on the Earth's surface would alter the axial rotation, though the proportions of mass between the Earth and its human population is so huge, I am doubtful we would have equipment sensitive enough to measure the change. Convince the entire bacterial mass of the planet to migrate to one location, and we might have something (barely) measurable, however.
I have to disagree with 1:27 "A cell phone comes out of a pocket. Within seconds, the rest of the world's seven billion phones follow." That would never happen. Everyone under 30 would already have their phone out the entire time, recording the jump and livestreaming it even if no one is watching because everyone else is there too and is filming it on their own phone.
i don’t think you understand. they would not be able to use their cell phones because the cell towers would not be able to handle 7 BILLION instances in a mile radius. they won’t have any signal.
@@dawnsclim4382 i wouldn't even say it as inside vs outside first world countries (there is a significant population of people without phones in first world countries and a significant population of people with phones in third-world countries), but yeah, scrolling through the results of the search "percent of world own phone" (not the most scientific approach, i know) the absolute highest estimate you get still leaves 20% of the world phoneless. also, some amount of people would have been blipped without their phone on them, but whatever
@@dawnsclim4382 Cellphone ownership in third world countries is actually about the same or higher. They don't have so many landlines, so the cellphone gets used a lot more.
Rhode Island was officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations until the citizens voted in 2020 to change the name to Rhode Island, because that's what people had been calling it for a long time.
People massively overestimate how important we are and massively underestimate the sheer size and mass of the earth. To put it into scale, this is like asking "what if a few specks of dust landed on a billiards ball?"
They also massively underestimate just how thin our atmosphere is. "Oh look at all that sky, how could we cause the climate to change?" Yeah smart guy, go into space and you'll see it's like the skin of an apple, it's hardly there at all.
@@randallpetersen9164 I guess you're forgetting to factor in that the earth is massive and the atmosphere's radius is larger than the earth, so it's also a huge amount of gas, more than you'll ever be able to breathe even if you lived a life many, many, many times over. Now realize that volcanoes and other natural phenomenon produce insane levels of co2 even when compared to all of humanity, then realize that we as a species can't even make a dent in preventing such natural emissions. I would love to use this faulty logic to push more nuclear power though as that is definitely a really good idea, it's much safer than coal, and we could be using that coal for other stuff instead of burning it!
@@Axodus Not 'forgetting' anything. Our entire biosphere is literally the skin of an apple. It was predicted 100 years ago what would happen with massive population growth and industrialization around the world. And now it is happening. Basically because people like you go 'Look at all that sky, how can we influence that.' And so the stupidity continues.
Well, it WAS an island. Now actual Rhode Island is more commonly known as Aquidneck island. The colony, which was former from merging the island and mainland settlements, and latterly the state as a whole was Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the latter being the mainland, even if it was colloquially shortened to just Rhode Island. This nomenclatural conundrum was resolved in 2020, not to eliminate this deep semantic and topographical problem but for silly reasons, by just renaming the state Rhode Island.
...along with hundreds of cosplayers snatched from conventions everywhere, also dressed like wizards, who would get clobbered to death due to being mistaken for the real wizard, seconds after someone near them yells "I know what this is, we're on Rhode Island, we're all gonna die, and it's a wizard's fault!!!"
@@Merennulli ...which means not only do all Wizards and Wizard cosplayers get mauled to death but also everyone that looks remotely like a manager. While the loss of cosplay wizards would be tragic for mankind, the loss of managers is more on the "meh" side of things.
I appreciate that you actually wrote cities names in their original script haha. I could recognize 上海市 and 北京市. (The character 市 means "city" , the other characters mean "Shanghai" and "Beijing" . respectively)
"Even if everyone did jump that high and the ground were rigid and responded instantly, the earth would only still be put down by less than an Atoms width" *Enter CaseOh*
"any two people who meet are unlikely to have a language in common" The exact likelihood there would be interesting. Even JUST counting English and Chinese you've already got a more than 5% chance of 2 people being able to communicate. Assuming all languages it would make sense for the chance to be close to 10% (with polyglots ofc having an advantage)
@@Mis7erSeven A fair point. But there are also scores of people within immediate earshot of any single person, for some time before people got really dispersed. That would have an impact as well, if we move beyond the "any two people" version.
Depending on whose statistics you use, between 18% and 24% of humanity speak English as a first or second language. Your odds of being within earshot of someone who can understand if you speak English are extremely high. For 6 hours and 40 minutes. Then your odds drop dramatically. (CO2 accumulation.)
The thing is, assuming that everyone is packed in in a hexagonal pattern, you'll have six immediate neighbors, and 12 neighbors just beyond them. If you speak English or Chinese, you should be able to communicate with several people around you barring bad random luck. English is spoken by 1.4 billion people, so it's a 1 in 5.7 chance that one of your neighbors will speak it, and Mandarin has 1.1 billion speakers, so it's a 1 in 7.3 chance. Other languages like Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian, and Portuguese (all with over 250 million speakers) will have somewhat decent chances, although they are all between 1 in 10 and 1 in 32. Once you get below those, well, now you're very likely out of luck.
@@Merennulliabout 1/6th the world's population speak English, and similar amounts speak Chinese. Hindi and Spanish have hundreds of millions. Which means that someone near you will understand your screams as you die of thirst or in the crush.
I like how this basically went: yea, there's no effect. Anyway, here are the massive logistical hurdles afterwards Also I would like to include: Massive evolution of human faith to the appearance of magic Mass panic and looting The massive privacy invasion (assuming everyone exists in every part of Rhode Island, that exists every home, bank, etc.)
I mean, the main issue is that Rhode island has enough food to feed about ~0.01% of the 8 billion people now there, and the other ~99.99% of people don't have enough food. There's only enough cars for about ~0.01% of the population to leave, either, so the other 99.99% of people are stuck walking it on foot, unless they manage to get a boat or plane ride. Suffice it to say, they'll have a hard time finding food.
@@Pwnz0rServer2009 well it depends, would the spell just send you back home, then no vehicle is involved. or, if the spell puts you back in the vehicle, would the time it took to get everyone to jump at the same time be enough for vehicles to be done crashing. either way is most likely that you would wind up alive
@@Artista_Frustradoi was suggesting they teleport back exactly where they were before teleportation, even if the vehicle was in a different place, but that works too
I love the V-sauce reference at the beginning, because the video about this question was the most viewed one on his channel for years and I always thought that it was such an obvious question.
I keep hearing the theory that if everyone in China jumped up and down at the same time, it would make a big enough seismic event to cause a tsunami in California. I always thought the numbers for that are out by orders of magnitude. But at university, there was a variation that seemed slightly more plausible: suggesting that if everyone in China sneezed at the same time (and presumably in the same direction), they could send a wave of air pressure that would cause a noticeable breeze on the far side of the pacific. That one made me wonder if it could actually be plausible; but I don't know the right kind of physics to estimate that one. Fluid dynamics is weird, and possibly incompatible with common sense. But a little while later, someone misheard a variation of that debate, and it somehow mutated into "if everyone in China broke wind at the same time" … how would you even search that?
I don't think that is how physics work. If you buy 100 (or 1000) normal fans and put them up in your house, they will not have the effect of a hurricane, because their effect won't like, erh, add up. But I do wonder what the result would be if enough ppl in an enclosed space broke wind.(with all the gas being released)
At a Travis Scott concert in Rome, because everyone was jumping at the concert area. It started an earthquake with the magnitude around 1.3 (idk the actual magnitude thats just what i remember from the video) also some small structures started to collapse too
just finished listening to vsauce talking about everyone jumping at once and this video got uploaded merely a minute ago couldve been the funniest coincidence ive had
I really really love how you not only answer the base question of what-if but also go beyond that, what happens next, how would this go on for humanity. Some additional thoughts/questions: Standing in the exact middle of that massive crowd, shoulder to shoulder to each other, would/could oxygen become an issue, given that this is now basically an rhode island sized lung? If panic breaks out among the claustrophobics and people start to run/push around, wouldnt this affect general survivability a great deal? Could you even survive anywhere near the middle? I mean it would take quite a while for enough people to move so that the middle bunch even get the chance to make any step towards water/food? Based on current statistics, on average between people being suddenly put on that place and people finishing the jump, how many children would be born right then and there? Contrary, how many would die of old age?
Minor quibble when you say people are unlikely to know each other's languages. Out of any group of 20 people, there are bound to be (on average) 2 or 3 mandarin speakers and 2 or 3 hindi speakers. They could get together, start shouting and attract others nearby who speak the language. Then there's the romance language speakers (also about 2 or 3) who could muddle together and understand each other.
so the entire thing was about the fact that everyone was teleported instantly to 1 very specific place, independently of the jump idea in the first place, that's funny
I feel like instead we would send all the people who can pilot airplanes and all captains who pilot ships to new airports so slowly we could get everybody home.
Most of those are supremely safe, with so many safety measures that they all shut down automatically without maintenance. Interestingly, something like Chernobyl only happened _because_ people were involved.
2:55 - "Any two people who are unlikely to have a language in common." Really? I'm not so confident about that. A lot of people speak Mandarin. A lot of people speak English or Spanish. I don't have the numbers on-hand right now, but I'd wager that among the 6 (?) people immediately around a random person, they would have a good chance of finding someone with a shared language.
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This is a masterclass in answering the question they asked, rather than the question they meant.
He also answered the question they meant!
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It seems that he did both
He also answered the question they meant. But this is just one calculation and the answer is simple and boring, so he continued with the more interesting part of the story.
haha
So this begs the question, where is the best location on earth to teleport everyone to minimize deaths
It would probably be a big city that already has the capacity to handle a big population. I'm thinking Shanghai, Hong Kong or Delhi.
I'd say the lack of food and water will kill most. So some place where the survivors of the outer layers can live of the land. (All infrastructure, such as logistics, sanitation and modern agriculture will be gone for a loooong time)
Id say probably a large city in europe that has a seriously robust and international train network. Plenty of farming in europe, trains can ferry a ton of passengers and food. Many coastal cities are within spitting distance of most other countries and thus have ships, containers etc.
Edit: Actually now that Ive thought about it, the biggest factor for fatalities would likely be just that the people in the middle of the crowd of 8 billion people are literally unable to walk and will eventually die from the elements and thirst. This alone would likely contribute many billions of death since you just cant walk through people.
Therefore an area with mild climate that can permeate the crowd with the largest number of deep flowing fresh water and relatively clean rivers would probably be a requirement. This allows a large number of people to gain fresh water as well as provide people a mode of transportation (floating in the water is better than standing for a week). Would ideally need to have a few main cities on the path of the tributaries, ideally with rail networks, or port cities.
The biggest place that has infrastructure already built to support millions of peoples and crowds (probably wouldn't make much difference)
@avionyellow1712 OP suggested "best". Every option will have a massive body count. Well, the option where the wizard puts everything back is probably best.
Most important take away from this is: the wizard who teleported everyone to Rhoad Island is an asshole
Also makes you wonder why they can't reverse the act, but alas
Was he part of the jumping crowd? How does the existence of wizard magic affect this hypothetical?
curse you thomas bennet
Or Thanos...
It was black hat all along
I like how 7,000,000,000 people jumping in one spot did nothing to the world, but getting those 7,000,000,000 people out of the one spot is what would cause the chaos.
8,000,000,000 now
@@whateverIwasthinkingatthetime Damn, 1 billion people were born in the 2 weeks between my comment and yours?
Wild.
@@mrquackadoodlemooits been 8 billion for a long time dude
In school i learned, that we are 6 billion people and i'm not so old. Just crazy.
@@mrquackadoodlemooit's been 8 billion since 2022
My biggest takeaway is that if we’re ever gonna do this, the teleportation BETTER be a two way trip.
Still some caveats. Imagine getting teleported out of an airplane, then teleported back to the same palce, where the airplane used to be
@@jay-tbl considering it would have to be an organized thing anyway (I think...) then all flights would hopefully be cancelled for that day
@@jay-tbl Just set your respawn point to your house, or your favourite public library if you don’t have a house
@@kikiretzorg1467 what if were were to put our beds together? haha... just kidding... unless?
@@teafanatic8452 (distorted screams)
“Who can stop you? All the cops are in Rhode Island.” That is one of the best lines I have ever heard.
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More than a sentence, a life motto
The only laws that enforce themselves are the laws of physics.
2024 is the year of "sentences we never thought we'd hear"
Words to live by.
Everyone who was in surgery or on life support probably died soon after they were teleported. Everyone who was deep diving experienced rapid decompression. Even assuming clothes would be teleported, quite a few people arrived naked (those who were showering, taking a bath, etc.). About a third of people arrived asleep.
How many women arrived mid-childbirth?
For this coordinated jump to be possible, everyone would need to know what to do. So we can assume that the wizard would send everyone like a telepathic message 5 minutes earlier or so. Enough time to leave the water, put on some clothes ect. But sure, the people in surgery or on life support would be screwed. And it wouldn't even help if we say we exclude handicapped people from the scenario, because then they would be left behind abandoned and helpless.
@@Mis7erSeveni don't think 5 minutes is enough to decompress after a dive
@@Mis7erSeven If the wizard can teleport everyone there, surely they can make everyone jump at the same time too.
@@WouterCloetens or mid-sex? 😂
It's funny how the action of everyone jumping at the same time wouldn't cause some post-apocalyptic event, but the aftermath of getting everyone to the same area in the first place would.
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Provided that they all have no idea how any of them got there.
@@jeffbenton6183 It's not so much a matter of whether they know how they got there as if they were able to prepare for it in advance. If we had a few years to stock food in RI, ensure critical infrastructure can run without intervention for a few days, and position other vital resources where they need to be in advance, casualties could be greatly reduced. But if it just suddenly happened without knowing and preparing in advance? Yeah, this video describes it pretty well.
that's the joke, yes
@@AliceYobbyYeah the joke is funny, can we not point it out?
I love how half of this video isn't even about the jumping simultaneously thing, it's about how would people live if they were suddenly and abruptly all brought together with no reason
Makes you wonder - if you didn't assume that a wizard teleported everyone to Rhode Island and instead everyone on the planet agreed to all travel to Rhode Island however they could by a certain deadline, what % of the world population could actually arrive there before the apocalypse starts. I'm quite sure we never even make it to The Jump, society as we know it crumbles somewhere in the process of trying to get everyone to same location.
Yeah disappointing to say the least
Thanks Sherlock.
The most surprising part of this is that the entirety of the human population can fit in an area the size of Rhode Island.
We all can fit on Galapagos with a square meter each apparently
I wonder if that takes into account the space taken by construction and buildings. Sure calculating the area we would take is one thing, but calculating an area big enough for literally everyone standing next to each other not inside buildings or in places people can't stand, let along jump on, is a whole different thing
Everyone dies. Just not in the way you were expecting.
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*almost* everyone.
I have officially rewritten Mad Max head cannon with this prelude.
The tagline of this channel
crowd crush is nightmare fuel
Yeesh! Everyone with social anxiety would have a panic attack 😢
i would say thats unlikely to happen in that situation given that theres no actual barrier that stops people from spreading out and no immediate urge to get anywhere
@@KabiPac Somebody falls into somebody, maybe a few more people get knocked over, and people ARE trying to do something. It's probably not going to end well...
@@KabiPacthe people are the barrier. Theres no way 8 billion people will manage to cooperate enough in this situation to spread out before most people in the middle have been smothered to death
@@KabiPac I believe those calculations are based on there being options for outlets for people. There aren't any in this case, the people _are_ the barrier for miles in every direction. Lots of people in this crowd are going to be in the middle of various kinds of crises (and many crises will start in the first ten minutes) and people move around in response to crises in and near them.
Thomas: "What would happen if everyone got together in one place and jumped?"
Randall: "We wouldn't be heavy enough to affect the Earth's orbit."
Thomas: "Damn, I guess nothing would happen."
Randall: "That's not what I said."
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@@SingleIsFreedom ew..
@@STEVEYTHEEXEEVEE I’m aware let me just permanently mark this small moment of pathetic achievement for my stupid little brain since its proud of it
@@SingleIsFreedom ew...
@@STEVEYTHEEXEEVEEew...
As someone born and raised in Rhode Island, it is genuinely disarming to hear anyone outside of our state talk about ANYTHING specific about it.
Also you know what? Yeah. I never really thought about it, but T.F. Green DOES have exceptionally nice bathrooms for an airport.
it does!! I was thinking about how much I liked their bathrooms when they were brought up only for the video to say the same thing lol
Best airport I've ever flown in and out of. It's the only airport I know of that I can wake up in my own bed and be on a plane in less than an hour with Dunkin in hand.
Same haha. We get so little media coverage lol.
The airport bathroom praise had me floored, that was my exact thought when I was there a few months back and I did not expect it to get referenced by anyone 🤣
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Of all "Uhm, actually" style moments I've seen until now, the cellphone part honestly is my favourite I think.
My favorite is the Japanese person going “Oh, I forgot to put out the fire.”
Oh look who can read Japanese, Mr. Fancypants! 🤣
But seriously though, thanks for the translation. Makes the video even funnier knowing this.
Oh, shi-
まあ、それでは遅すぎます。
I've seen worse translations on way higher production values on this site. After the last one I watched (with a Japanese guest on the channel, even!), I'm just pleased the translation was entirely natural and grammatically correct.
But maybe you'll empathize with how suspicious that word 火消し was for me. I've been tricked a lot by unusual readings in strange places, and my first guess sounded weird in my head, so I didn't believe it was actually the most straightforward possible pronunciation.
残念だなーw
I love that every video on this channel inevitably turns into "and everyone died, the end".
So far he’s pulling questions from the first what if book, just wait for the second one. Like half of the questions result in human extinction, the earth being destroyed, or the galaxy being destroyed.
Incidentally, the galaxy in the 2nd book is destroyed by soup.
Well, at least in the Nascar(?) one only the vehicle pilot dies.
@@LichLordFortissimo I loved the one about filling the solar system with soup out to Jupiter.
Yes, but we get the thrill of finding out how and why everyone dies.
This reminds me of last Monday, when a lot of people managed to get to northern New Hampshire, not far from Rhode Island, in time for a scheduled event, and then were up to 12 hours late getting home due to traffic. Fortunately, the eclipse wasn't so popular that society collapsed while they were away.
Also, everyone had time to prepare, and they (like my group who drove from West Virginia to Ohio) brought snacks and water!
Also, our cell signal was great the whole time at the ohio state park we visited!
We spent three days at a beautiful lake in rural Indiana, had a small beach all to ourselves for the eclipse and drove home without traffic the next day. Planning ahead is key.
@SimuLord the state park in ohio we went to said that 4th of july crowds were worse. They were prepared
this was me..
Fun fact: Assuming a person landing after their jump makes a pulse of sound at about 60 decibels (tested it myself with my smartphone mic), then 8 billion people doing so at the exact same spot would correspond to a sound of 156 decibels, which is about 4x louder than a jet engine firing at maximum throttle at point blank range.
I reality the noise would not be that loud because the crowd is spread over a massive area and not condensed into one point, so the noise from the outer edges of the crowd takes a while to reach the center of the crowd, and vice versa. You can still expect a short but deafening blast of noise when the 8 billion people land, though. People not close to the edges of the crowd are at risk of hearing damage from this.
I feel like having it spread out across an entire state instead of an exact point would make it much less than deafening due to tbe inverse square law + some frequencies dampening / "cancelling out" as different harmonic frequencies from landing on different materials not only amplify but also interfere.
Given that you can't even hear someone jump from like 50 meters away, I think you'd be fine.
This is less than what if everyone jumped at once and more of if some dude typed "spawn all players to Rhode island" in console commands
/tp @e @s
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Aliens: "So, what caused your world ending apocalypse?"
The last human alive: "We all went to Rode Island"
Other alien: "You dumbass it was civilisation ending not world ending. The non-sapient descendents of humanity still chug along well in the wilds alongside the reclaimed nature."
Alien: "Oh so this "rhode island" must be dangerous and cursed then, did you not know of the danger it contained?"
Human: "Oh no rhode island isn't actually that bad of a place, sure theres better places, but theres also much worse. The issue was everyone being there at once that was the issue."
*Road iland
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@@gamechip06 Is this supposed to be a joke?
This would make a great setting for a novel.
"The Jump" by Nicholas Weaver. You go in thinking it's about like warp drive or something that changed the world, but it's about a literal jump.
@@OliviaSNava Good title!
"The Walking...Billions?"
I was thinking the exact same while I was watching the video.
I feel like the one about the Earth stopping spinning would be a little bit more interesting.
To avoid the heat of the day and night, you have to stay in the permanent twilight band that moves around the Earth, circling it once per year.
A stone slab left atop the ruins of Rhode Island reads:
"This place is a message. Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. There is danger here. The danger exists in your time, as it existed in ours. The danger is only unleashed if you gather eight billion people and make them jump all at once. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited."
Honestly the jump was harmless. The danger is gathering eight billion people. That's just... too many mouths and butts for such a small area to contend with.
Radiation? I sleep. Ridiculously large crowds? Real shit.
@@Archgeek0 I think this is a reference to the monuments considered for long term storage facilities for radio active waste. The problem is: how do you communicate to a future civilization that we don't know and who don't know us in 10000 years time to not dig there archeologically or theologically or just out of curiosity?
@@Archgeek0 Therein lies the spider's web. Some fools are going to take our warning as a challenge one day or another. The hell if I'm going into the apocalypse alone.
@@tilad1420 Oh of course, that's what makes it funny - I'm just saying the "and" clause isn't needed, as the danger is unleashed without anything more than gathering that many people together.
Errors in this What-If introduced by the passage of time:
* There are now sixteen billion feet, not twelve billion
* Fewer people have flip phones
* Someone coughing in a dense crowd would be _way_ scarier now
I had a feeling it hadn't been updated!
Aren’t some of them babies?
@@mondiramaji791 That was also true in 2012.
This is hilarious. The jump does nothing, but the effect of everyone being transported to a single location causes a dystopian apocalyptic future. This was the most entertaining way to answer, "nothing," that I've ever seen.
Seems a lot of people were unaware of xkcd before the youtube channel and don't know these are old what-if questions. Well I guess they're part of today's lucky 10,000!
I really hope Randall does all of them, I absolutely love the we comic and what if series.
I also would love to hear a physics (or given the creator's history, robotics) lecture in the style of "Up Goer 5"
10,000! is a really really big number! #unexpectedfactorial
As a fan of the comics, I am enjoying this look back on the old blogposts in a new way.
@@moth.monster and they're narrated by the man himself, can't beat that!
Just be careful, Some of the Lucky 10,000 are less lucky than others.
It's pretty terrifying that most people allow private algorithms to decide what they will encounter on the internet instead of choosing like we all once did. I've even heard that some young people use TikTok as a search engine. The mind boggles.
I've read each of these as articles. I know every plot twist, joke, and nuance.
And yet I still watch and enjoy these videos.
I've had the "what if?" book for a long time now, and this has always been my favorite fact. I am dyslexic and reading in school made me feel stupid and agitated. this book was what taught me to enjoy reading and ever since I've made reading part of my daily routine. that wouldn't have been possible without your work and i can't thank you enough for it!
This went in so many directions, and I thoroughly enjoyed every single one of them.
"moments later I-95, I-195 and I-295 become the sites of the largest traffic jams in the history of the planet"
That just sounds like an average weekday in Rhode Island at 8am.
It’s fascinating to know that simply bringing everyone together would tear us apart.
There's a lesson in there that a lot of people need to learn.
@@weemissile no... no, there isn't. in no way is "teleporting everyone to the same location instantly and then dealing with the consequences" analogous to "cross-cultural acceptance."
@@kingcrimson4133 I'm sorry... did you mean to be replying to someone else's post?
And it was Lisa, Lisa tore us apart.
@@weemissile definitely not your post is implying that there is a lesson to be learned that bringing different people together tears people apart and that people should stay in theyre country if you know what I mean that might not have been the intended implication but its what it sounds like when read
This be the greatest subversion in What if’s history
My favorite one is his subversion of, "What would happen if the Sun vanished?" and went on about how easy it would be to drive across rivers and lakes due to the water freezing, how easy it would be for us to see the stars in our galaxy, and oh, we'd also die within a few hours due to not receiving any heat from our now-vanished sun.
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@@thatjeff7550 not hours, it could definitely last days, maybe weeks
@@EEEEEEEE I prefer R. It's a pirate thing. RRRRRR. 😛🏴☠
@@maxpis4412 centuries perhaps. We have a lot of energy sources here on earth
As someone who flies in and out of TF Green about once a month, here is random TF Green bathroom fact that will change your experience flying in or out of it. The front surface of the top of the urinals is highly and I do mean HIGHLY reflective, which means you might accidentally look at every single person's wiener all at once without meaning to. Once you know it, you can't unknow it. You won't even do it in purpose. You will walk in, see wieners, and then remember "Don't look at the wieners."
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Reflective floors and walls in public restrooms that have gaps in their paneling are such terrible design.
Imo, that's on you for not using a stall. I don't know why some men feel the need to make pissing a group activity.
@@clownfromclowntown Blame the Romans. It's been common for very long time.
@@clownfromclowntown urinals can be separate, not just one big trough
I love the way how xkcd makes sound effects at 1:39
Vsuace is here 0:14
Actually it's Michael 🤓
61 likes!? Not to be that type of guy but that means I'm viral!
@@user-ml5uu2gf5w his youtube name is vsause 🤓
@@jackcraftsolar definition of "viral": of the nature of, caused by, or relating to a virus or viruses.
"a severe viral infection"
Does that mean you have an infection? Why are you celebrating?
@@Yehor-v7y "viral" also means popular on the internet
We changing the earth orbit with this one
Nevermind the world just turned into Mad Max
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Bruh
lmao
No, they DIDN'T change the Earth's orbit at the cost of going Mad Max.
How could they change the orbit anyway? The humans on the earth are a closed system. There's no transfer of mass/momentum, so there is zero net force.
Whatever impulse the earth got when the humans jumped off, gets cancelled back the moment they land.... Unless someone manages to get yeeted out on at escape velocity. The orbit, the rotating, everything stays absolutely unchanged.
Well if you ignore the mass extinction event from the attempt
2:02 I’ve also been there; they truly do have some of the best bathrooms ever
Every time I hear this question answered, there is no mention of the fact that it wouldn't matter how much people weighed compared to the Earth, the orbit could never be affected by such an event. The mass of people and the planet would momentarily move away from each other, then back toward each other due to gravity. There would be no net movement one way or the other.
It would if everyone jumped at escape velocity! 😋
But then everyone would die alot quicker. As a massive plasma ball of meat and fluids tearing thru the sky.
It would matter though. If people weigh somewhere near the same order of magnitude as the entire Earth, the amount of energy released by the friction and shock of the jump would be astronomical. I don't know how much energy could realistically escape within those conditions but it's not absurd to think that enough could escape that it would have an effect, at least until you do the math.
If the Earth was perfectly rigid, that would be correct. But the Earth deforms when you apply enough force. That deformation is why earthquakes alter the orbit of Earth ever so slightly.
More credibly, suddenly moving the mass of all those people to one point on the Earth's surface would alter the axial rotation, though the proportions of mass between the Earth and its human population is so huge, I am doubtful we would have equipment sensitive enough to measure the change.
Convince the entire bacterial mass of the planet to migrate to one location, and we might have something (barely) measurable, however.
@@Merennulli Earthquakes alter the Earth's rotation, not orbit.
I have to disagree with 1:27 "A cell phone comes out of a pocket. Within seconds, the rest of the world's seven billion phones follow." That would never happen. Everyone under 30 would already have their phone out the entire time, recording the jump and livestreaming it even if no one is watching because everyone else is there too and is filming it on their own phone.
i don’t think you understand. they would not be able to use their cell phones because the cell towers would not be able to handle 7 BILLION instances in a mile radius. they won’t have any signal.
Also people outside first world countries exist. Some just don't have phones.
@@dawnsclim4382 i wouldn't even say it as inside vs outside first world countries (there is a significant population of people without phones in first world countries and a significant population of people with phones in third-world countries), but yeah, scrolling through the results of the search "percent of world own phone" (not the most scientific approach, i know) the absolute highest estimate you get still leaves 20% of the world phoneless.
also, some amount of people would have been blipped without their phone on them, but whatever
@@dawnsclim4382 Cellphone ownership in third world countries is actually about the same or higher. They don't have so many landlines, so the cellphone gets used a lot more.
3:06 my oxygen not included colony be like
Well atleast they're not breathing poluted oxygen 😂
LMAO
Alright guys April 31st at 12:00pm pst on the dot let's all jump at once
I'm busy that day, can we move it to the 32nd?
I have school that day and I don't want to wake up late. Can we do it some other time?
I'm doing it!
Depending on if this is noon or midnight (ampm too confusing) I'll be working or sleeping...
Yup, I'll do it
This is how my non-american self found out Rhode Island is not just like... A single island.
Yeah it's pretty dumb. The US has two Washingtons, too.
@@randallpetersen9164one is a state, one is a city in a federal district.
@@sirk603 Uh, thanks. I live in one and have lived in the other. :)
Rhode Island was officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations until the citizens voted in 2020 to change the name to Rhode Island, because that's what people had been calling it for a long time.
People massively overestimate how important we are and massively underestimate the sheer size and mass of the earth.
To put it into scale, this is like asking "what if a few specks of dust landed on a billiards ball?"
They also massively underestimate just how thin our atmosphere is. "Oh look at all that sky, how could we cause the climate to change?" Yeah smart guy, go into space and you'll see it's like the skin of an apple, it's hardly there at all.
@@randallpetersen9164 Space is just an hour's drive away - if you could drive straight up. (Thank you Hoyle)
more like, what if a water molecule landed on a soccer ball
@@randallpetersen9164 I guess you're forgetting to factor in that the earth is massive and the atmosphere's radius is larger than the earth, so it's also a huge amount of gas, more than you'll ever be able to breathe even if you lived a life many, many, many times over. Now realize that volcanoes and other natural phenomenon produce insane levels of co2 even when compared to all of humanity, then realize that we as a species can't even make a dent in preventing such natural emissions. I would love to use this faulty logic to push more nuclear power though as that is definitely a really good idea, it's much safer than coal, and we could be using that coal for other stuff instead of burning it!
@@Axodus Not 'forgetting' anything. Our entire biosphere is literally the skin of an apple. It was predicted 100 years ago what would happen with massive population growth and industrialization around the world. And now it is happening. Basically because people like you go 'Look at all that sky, how can we influence that.' And so the stupidity continues.
it's comforting to know that the entire population of earth can fit into rhode island. makes you feel less like we're "overtaking" the planet.
Imagine a post-apocalyptic movie or game where the reason of the apocalypse was this.
Note to future generations: "Don't call it an island if it's not an island."
Well, it WAS an island. Now actual Rhode Island is more commonly known as Aquidneck island. The colony, which was former from merging the island and mainland settlements, and latterly the state as a whole was Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the latter being the mainland, even if it was colloquially shortened to just Rhode Island. This nomenclatural conundrum was resolved in 2020, not to eliminate this deep semantic and topographical problem but for silly reasons, by just renaming the state Rhode Island.
@@randomobserver8168 TIL that it took until 2020 to correct that conundrum!
@@randomobserver8168 Welp, i'm now calling Rhode Island Rhode Providence.
TIL that Rhode Island isn't actually an island????* (I knew it is the smallest state) (*not an american)
Why did we not just call it Providence
Mfw when the wizard who teleported everyone there would also be there, and probably be mauled to death
...along with hundreds of cosplayers snatched from conventions everywhere, also dressed like wizards, who would get clobbered to death due to being mistaken for the real wizard, seconds after someone near them yells "I know what this is, we're on Rhode Island, we're all gonna die, and it's a wizard's fault!!!"
The manager at Visit Rhode Island who hired that wizard has a lot to answer for.
@@Merennulli ...which means not only do all Wizards and Wizard cosplayers get mauled to death but also everyone that looks remotely like a manager. While the loss of cosplay wizards would be tragic for mankind, the loss of managers is more on the "meh" side of things.
@ArxInvicta Just don't kill the telephone sanitizers.
I appreciate that you actually wrote cities names in their original script haha. I could recognize 上海市 and 北京市. (The character 市 means "city" , the other characters mean "Shanghai" and "Beijing" . respectively)
My dumbass thought those were hiragana characters for a second there 💀
So it's not just if everyone jumped at the same time, but also, everyone is in Rhode Island.
"Even if everyone did jump that high and the ground were rigid and responded instantly, the earth would only still be put down by less than an Atoms width"
*Enter CaseOh*
"any two people who meet are unlikely to have a language in common"
The exact likelihood there would be interesting. Even JUST counting English and Chinese you've already got a more than 5% chance of 2 people being able to communicate. Assuming all languages it would make sense for the chance to be close to 10% (with polyglots ofc having an advantage)
5-10% definitely counts as unlikely.
@@Mis7erSeven A fair point. But there are also scores of people within immediate earshot of any single person, for some time before people got really dispersed. That would have an impact as well, if we move beyond the "any two people" version.
Depending on whose statistics you use, between 18% and 24% of humanity speak English as a first or second language. Your odds of being within earshot of someone who can understand if you speak English are extremely high.
For 6 hours and 40 minutes. Then your odds drop dramatically. (CO2 accumulation.)
The thing is, assuming that everyone is packed in in a hexagonal pattern, you'll have six immediate neighbors, and 12 neighbors just beyond them. If you speak English or Chinese, you should be able to communicate with several people around you barring bad random luck. English is spoken by 1.4 billion people, so it's a 1 in 5.7 chance that one of your neighbors will speak it, and Mandarin has 1.1 billion speakers, so it's a 1 in 7.3 chance. Other languages like Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian, and Portuguese (all with over 250 million speakers) will have somewhat decent chances, although they are all between 1 in 10 and 1 in 32. Once you get below those, well, now you're very likely out of luck.
@@Merennulliabout 1/6th the world's population speak English, and similar amounts speak Chinese. Hindi and Spanish have hundreds of millions. Which means that someone near you will understand your screams as you die of thirst or in the crush.
This is my favourite chapter of What If
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I like how the answer is "basically nothing" and you made the most interesting thought experiment anyways. xD
I’ve had your book for the longest time, it’s so cool to see you making videos on a book I grew up with
I'm amazed at how quickly this went from quirky physics question, to the apocalypse!
I like how this basically went: yea, there's no effect. Anyway, here are the massive logistical hurdles afterwards
Also I would like to include:
Massive evolution of human faith to the appearance of magic
Mass panic and looting
The massive privacy invasion (assuming everyone exists in every part of Rhode Island, that exists every home, bank, etc.)
I mean, the main issue is that Rhode island has enough food to feed about ~0.01% of the 8 billion people now there, and the other ~99.99% of people don't have enough food.
There's only enough cars for about ~0.01% of the population to leave, either, so the other 99.99% of people are stuck walking it on foot, unless they manage to get a boat or plane ride. Suffice it to say, they'll have a hard time finding food.
I just want to say that my heart fills with joy every time I see a whole world map using a proper projection. Thank you for that.
it's still a little stretched but about as good as you can do without making it a weird shape.
also do you know what projection that is?
Russia is still very wrong, but I get that it would be hard for it not to be, given how it wraps around the North Pole
1:53 this is the experience of traveling to see a total eclipse, basically
Why is this so unseen! Underrated comment fr
This was more a what if we teleported everyone to one place instead of what if everyone jumped
I watched it high af and now I'm imagining myself in Rhode Island looking for people to stay together and maybe travel back to Europe someday..
i love that this scenario accounts for the Wizard being unable to just send everyone back home
some people still would've died on the way back as they might've been in transport before teleportation
@@Pwnz0rServer2009 well it depends,
would the spell just send you back home, then no vehicle is involved.
or, if the spell puts you back in the vehicle, would the time it took to get everyone to jump at the same time be enough for vehicles to be done crashing.
either way is most likely that you would wind up alive
@@Artista_Frustradoi was suggesting they teleport back exactly where they were before teleportation, even if the vehicle was in a different place, but that works too
Vsauce moment
Nevermind, vsauce was mentioned
I love whatif
FRICK YOU BEAT ME TO IT
Hello Michael, Vsauce here, why can you jump ?
Yeah
I jumped just now after seeing there was a new What If video.
when the answer to the question is so simple and unsatisfying that you have to make up something funny about the whole crowd teleport situation xD
The idea of a apocalypse caused not by humans dying but all humans crowding together is something I want to write
Most satisfying example of saying "nothing happens, you dummies" this channel is so fun.
Not the *weirdest* apocalypse I've ever heard of, but it's up there
I like how this went from "clever thought experiment" straight to "Mad Max apocalypse".
I love how this video went from "what if everyone jumped in the same place?" to "what if *everyone* jumped in the *same* place"
Love all the detail in the map of Rhode Island and surrounding area, like the canal
I love the V-sauce reference at the beginning, because the video about this question was the most viewed one on his channel for years and I always thought that it was such an obvious question.
I keep hearing the theory that if everyone in China jumped up and down at the same time, it would make a big enough seismic event to cause a tsunami in California. I always thought the numbers for that are out by orders of magnitude.
But at university, there was a variation that seemed slightly more plausible: suggesting that if everyone in China sneezed at the same time (and presumably in the same direction), they could send a wave of air pressure that would cause a noticeable breeze on the far side of the pacific. That one made me wonder if it could actually be plausible; but I don't know the right kind of physics to estimate that one. Fluid dynamics is weird, and possibly incompatible with common sense.
But a little while later, someone misheard a variation of that debate, and it somehow mutated into "if everyone in China broke wind at the same time" … how would you even search that?
I don't think that is how physics work. If you buy 100 (or 1000) normal fans and put them up in your house, they will not have the effect of a hurricane, because their effect won't like, erh, add up.
But I do wonder what the result would be if enough ppl in an enclosed space broke wind.(with all the gas being released)
"This is not part of the recording."
IT IS NOW!
What happened: Nothing
The afternath: end of the world
At a Travis Scott concert in Rome, because everyone was jumping at the concert area. It started an earthquake with the magnitude around 1.3 (idk the actual magnitude thats just what i remember from the video) also some small structures started to collapse too
just finished listening to vsauce talking about everyone jumping at once and this video got uploaded merely a minute ago
couldve been the funniest coincidence ive had
I'm sorry but XKCD referencing Vsauce makes my nerdy heart sing
got to keep with the kids
I think the outcome of most of these What If questions can be summed up as "a fun way for humanity to face near extinction"
2:59 “I forgot to put out the fire”
Hey V Sauce, Michael here.
And everybody did the Flop, and the whole world shook. But not in the way we had expected.
Asdfmovie reference
I really really love how you not only answer the base question of what-if but also go beyond that, what happens next, how would this go on for humanity.
Some additional thoughts/questions:
Standing in the exact middle of that massive crowd, shoulder to shoulder to each other, would/could oxygen become an issue, given that this is now basically an rhode island sized lung?
If panic breaks out among the claustrophobics and people start to run/push around, wouldnt this affect general survivability a great deal?
Could you even survive anywhere near the middle? I mean it would take quite a while for enough people to move so that the middle bunch even get the chance to make any step towards water/food?
Based on current statistics, on average between people being suddenly put on that place and people finishing the jump, how many children would be born right then and there? Contrary, how many would die of old age?
Minor quibble when you say people are unlikely to know each other's languages. Out of any group of 20 people, there are bound to be (on average) 2 or 3 mandarin speakers and 2 or 3 hindi speakers. They could get together, start shouting and attract others nearby who speak the language. Then there's the romance language speakers (also about 2 or 3) who could muddle together and understand each other.
More importantly, roughly 20% (estimates vary) of the Earth's population speak at least minimal English...
so the entire thing was about the fact that everyone was teleported instantly to 1 very specific place, independently of the jump idea in the first place, that's funny
I feel like instead we would send all the people who can pilot airplanes and all captains who pilot ships to new airports so slowly we could get everybody home.
The stick figure mad max drawing is brilliant. So many nice details.
That one was my favourite.
TLDR: Public health crisis
Tonight, billions will die,
Okay but if everyone on Earth jumped on Rhode Island that would include my buddy Rick and he's fat enough to push the entire island underwater
Rhode Island... is as much of an island as Italy.
Caseoh moment
Lol😊
@@blueyoshi8517 The whole state isn't an island, but the island is an island (It's like if New York state was called The State of Long Island)
LMAO, get roasted Rick.
You forgot about ~500 nuclear reactors left unsupervised and without maitnence.
Most of those are supremely safe, with so many safety measures that they all shut down automatically without maintenance.
Interestingly, something like Chernobyl only happened _because_ people were involved.
As a native Rhode Islander, this just sounds like a slightly-worse-than-normal summer tourist season, TBH.
I love the twist of this video!
the vsauce stick figure was too accurate lol
1:05 what if it was just a single person who weighed and delivered that amount of force?
Caseoh?
@@DinoRicky yep but with out the antigravity system around his house.
We all know casoh could do this by him self
I love that this is less about the jump and more about how much of an issue this would be for everyone 😂
The Great Rhode Islands incident
📯📯🫡🫡
More deadly than the black death!
Found your channel today mid-poop, just finished all ur videos. Subscribed with notifications.
Same
Caseoh alone would cause the earth to break into two
I never would've thought the simple act of getting everyone on earth together would be so catastrophic
2:55 - "Any two people who are unlikely to have a language in common." Really? I'm not so confident about that. A lot of people speak Mandarin. A lot of people speak English or Spanish. I don't have the numbers on-hand right now, but I'd wager that among the 6 (?) people immediately around a random person, they would have a good chance of finding someone with a shared language.