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China's Monster Three Gorges Dam Is About To Slow The Rotation Of The Earth
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[quote:Dirtyboy:MV8yNTc5NTQ2XzQ0OTMyMjM2X0IyMkE5ODZC] [quote:mrmuffins69:MV8yNTc5NTQ2XzQ0OTMyMTc2X0Q0MDBFMzM2] What could possible go wrong? [/quote] You mean like they never have major earthquakes in China? Or are we just supposed to believe they planned for such disasters? [/quote]
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Raising 39 trillion kilograms of water 175 meters above sea level will increase the Earth’s moment of inertia and thus slow its rotation. However, the effect would extremely small. NASA scientists calculated that shift of such as mass would increase the length of day by only 0.06 microseconds and make the Earth only very slightly more round in the middle and flat on the top. It would shift the pole position by about two centimeters (0.8 inch). Note that a shift in any object’s mass on the Earth relative to its axis of rotation will change its moment of inertia, although most shifts are too small to be measured (but they can be calculated).
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