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[IcyTea31]

The various space agencies of the world would use it as a launch day, saving millions in rocket fuel.

Ninjaedit: nevermind, if it's only humans that fall up, this won't work.

[Dunamisdeos]

The various space agencies of the world would use it as a launch day, saving millions in rocket fuel.

Ninjaedit: nevermind, if it's only humans that fall up, this won't work.

The various space agencies of the world would use it as a launch day by packing hundreds of humans into thruster-shaped housings to provide lift, thereby saving millions in rocket fuel.

[FallacyofUrist]

Only the humans themselves fall up. Their clothes don't, but that doesn't matter as the weight from the clothes they wear isn't that much compared to the weight of the actual human being.

Upwards movement is opposed by the usual air resistance and pressure effects. Not enough to stop falling up, I would think.

[Reelya]

If you're outside and fall for 10 seconds at 1g, that's 500 metres, so anyone outside would fly 500 metres into the sky then plummet to their deaths when gravity resumed (you'd be doing about 100 m/s at impact). Anyone indoors e.g. in bed or in a chair would fall face/head first into the ceiling. Then 10 seconds later, you slam back to the floor. People in cars with seatbelts would be the safest, however it's likely that many car accidents (etc) would occur and fires etc would break out (because of people dropping cigarettes, and otherwise knocking fire-starting things over. There wouldn't be enough hospital staff left to cope with close to 100% of the population being injured to some degree, so i'd imagine disease would break out too.

So the first year it would depopulate large chunks of the Earth. People would rebuild, but ... on the second year it's unlikely that anyone is expecting it to happen at exactly that time, and so much of society would be devastated that perhaps they aren't prepared for it. The population would dwindle over several years but eventually people would work it out and I'd imagine life would be a lot like before, but with extra precautions around that time of year.

And I imagine some form of religious belief or cult would form around the incident, perhaps heretics / criminals would be left outdoors at that time of year as a form of execution.

Another possibility would be to turn it into a sport / thrillride. Wear a parachute and wait for the lift, then pull the chord and sail back down.

[Adragis]

Hypothetical scenario: You are in a locked room with no windows, no door, and five-foot-thick titanium walls with an orange, a knife, and nothing else. Inside the room you will never die, but you will never interact with anyone.
What would you do?

[Criptfeind]

Nothing I guess.

[Adragis]

You fool!

You simply cut the orange in half, and put both halves together to make a whole.

Then you put the whole on the wall and escape.

[Criptfeind]

That's not how oranges work.

[Adragis]

That's not how oranges work.

Oh wow!
Look at this person, they're so intelligent!

[ChairmanPoo]

That's not how oranges work.

Oh wow!
Look at this person, they're so intelligent!

you should take the orange, cut it in half, put them together to make a whole, and then shove it right into your a...

[Adragis]

That's not how oranges work.

Oh wow!
Look at this person, they're so intelligent!

you should take the orange, cut it in half, put them together to make a whole, and then shove it right into your a...

That's not how holes work.

[Criptfeind]

No, that's exactly how how holes work.

[Adragis]

No, that's exactly how how holes work.

But oranges don't?
What about a whole orange?

[Criptfeind]

I mean it might take a bit of stretching but oranges are squishy, it'd probably work.

[Adragis]

Ah, you misunderstand. I mean, if you've already made the hole, you can't pick it up, right?



Also, new (not-a-terrible-joke) scenario which may have been done and is overused anyway:

You can either eradicate death by old age, or eliminate harm done by malicious violence. This applies to everybody currently alive and who will be alive in the future. Nobody will know you did it.