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Humanity’s relentless pursuit of progress has led to remarkable advancements in infrastructure development. From towering skyscrapers to vast dams, our ability to alter the natural world is undeniable. However, with these grand constructions come unforeseen consequences that can extend beyond their immediate surroundings. According to NASA, human-made structures, alongside natural phenomena, can influence Earth’s rotation. This article delves into the profound implications of such changes, focusing on large-scale projects and their unexpected global repercussions.
Colossal Infrastructures and Their Unseen Impact
The world has witnessed an unprecedented rise in the construction of massive infrastructures that challenge the very laws of gravity and engineering. Iconic structures like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Shanghai Tower, and The Clock Towers in Saudi Arabia exemplify this relentless quest for grandeur. Yet, beyond their breathtaking architecture, these edifices raise pertinent questions about their impact on our planet. Among these monumental constructions, the Three Gorges Dam in China stands out. As the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, located in the Hubei province, it symbolizes China’s ambition to harness its natural resources and assert its engineering prowess.
While its primary purpose is to generate electricity, the dam also serves as a testament to China’s efforts to manage its territorial challenges and internal dynamics. However, the implications of such a massive structure extend beyond its immediate utility. The sheer scale and mass of the dam have sparked discussions about its potential to influence Earth’s rotation, a topic explored in detail by researchers and scientists. The possibility of engineering feats impacting not just the local environment but also the planet as a whole prompts a reevaluation of our approaches to construction and development.
The Three Gorges Dam: A Giant with Global Consequences
In the realm of renewable energy, China leads the charge as the world’s foremost producer of hydroelectric power. The Three Gorges Dam, despite its impressive scale, only meets 3% of the country’s energy needs. However, its significance transcends energy production. A NASA report from 2005 posits that the dam could potentially affect Earth’s rotation. Such changes occur when any event involves a significant mass shift, be it an earthquake or a reservoir filling up.
Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center elucidates that even seemingly negligible actions, like driving a car, can have a minute impact on our planet. The Three Gorges Dam, with its vast reservoir, exemplifies how human activities can unintentionally alter the Earth’s natural dynamics, prompting a reevaluation of our engineering endeavors and their far-reaching effects. This insight into the dam’s potential impact on global systems is a testament to the interconnectedness of human activity and natural processes.
The 0.06 Microsecond Effect
To comprehend the potential impact of the dam, consider an ice skater adjusting their rotation by repositioning their arms. Similarly, the 2004 earthquake shortened the day by 2.68 microseconds. If the Three Gorges Dam’s reservoir were filled to capacity, it would hold approximately 10.6 trillion gallons of water (40 cubic kilometers). This enormous water mass would increase the length of a day by 0.06 microseconds and slightly alter Earth’s shape, making it more rounded at the equator and flatter at the poles.
Such changes, though seemingly minuscule, underscore the intricate balance of our planet’s systems. The cumulative effect of numerous human activities could have significant implications for the Earth’s rotation, climate, and overall stability. As we continue to exploit natural resources on an unprecedented scale, understanding these nuances becomes increasingly critical. The subtle yet profound influence of large-scale projects on Earth’s natural rhythms highlights the need for careful consideration in future developments.
Looking Toward the Future
The influence of human constructions on our planet is a matter of growing concern. As we persist in building larger and heavier structures, it is crucial to comprehend the potential consequences. How will these changes impact our daily lives and environment in the long term? Infrastructures like the Three Gorges Dam serve as reminders of humanity’s immense influence on Earth. Ultimately, we must ask ourselves whether we are prepared to shoulder the responsibilities that accompany these technological advancements.
As we forge ahead with new developments, the question remains: how can we balance our quest for progress with the need to preserve the stability of our planet? This ongoing dialogue will shape the future of engineering and environmental stewardship. How do you envision the balance between advancement and sustainability being achieved in the coming decades?
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Wow, I never thought something man-made could affect Earth’s rotation! 😮
This is really old news
I learnt about this in school over 10 years ago. Stop with these crazy titles just to try throw shade at China.
cappies r scared of BRICS and the belt and road project, theyll do all they can to make it seem that the new proto-comintern seems weaker than it is, let alone to destabilize them. id be honored to work with them if im honest
Scaremongering twaddle.
What’s next, China is too heavy? The foods running out? They’re too fast? Put on your big kid pants and go PARTNER with the most advanced nation on the planet…
Might actually learn something useful.
Load of propaganda.
Trash content, click bait titles. Shame on you.
Y los efectos de los cohetes de Elon Musk no dicen nada.
No mention in the article of American structures which have impacted the Earth’s rotation. They were, after all, the the ones who chose to drop two atomic bombs on Japan without any consideration to the repercussions either on humanity or the environment.
Great people those Yanks.
Propaganda
What about an article.about the distribution of weight the melting of the ice caps.
Yea they been monitor change for several year same for India water resovior shift axis by quarter degree every few decades
If we lost 2.68 microseconds in one day after the 2004 earthquake then the dam increasing the day’s length by .06 microseconds doesn’t fix the 2004 earthquake time loss,😜
The water in the dam as he’s going to drown millions of people from the inertia of the spinning Earth the dam is not able to hold it water reaches Canada and America God help us all
Exactly like America is so lame these days, we should try to do better instead of saying bad things about other countries 😔
Wow, talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel. Just sour grapes because we can’t keep up with China.
Yeah China doesn’t need help in gathering shade.
Nasa is the biggest problem, they steal billions of Americans money every day just to produce cgi pictures. The earth does not spin. The sun, moon and stars rotate. The people that are agreeing with this have been indoctrinated and its time for them to wake up. Do you know that if nasa wasn’t steeling billions you could probably be more advanced than china? How much more advanced would everyone be if that money was spent on the things that are needed instead of to control and scare people
Ah yes, what about the massive Hoover Dam that’s been around before WW2? No cause for alarm from that?
Lana, so you think that the Earth is stationary and the entire universe is rotaing around us??! So we are the center of the universe??! That then meams that the farther any star is from us, every one of the trillions upon trillions of them, all just happen to be traveling at the exact precise extra amount of speed that is needed than the next closest star during these massive daily rotations to where they continue to appear in the same places in our sky throughout the years??! Now THAT is a coincidence on, should I say, a galactic scale!! Hahaha! Ok, let me ask you this…..why is it that if you take a flight from L.A. to London nonstop, the flight is just under an hour longer when you fly back from London to L.A nonstop? Any time you travel from west to east it takes longer than traveling between the same locations going east to west? Could that be because the Earth is spinning, or is it just the gravitational pull on the aircraft from the perfectly synchronized rotating universe??! Lmao!! Stop listening to what a group of dumb people say to you and start thinking logically for yourself! I promise it will better serve you in life, while you’re on this flat Earth!! Hahaha! 🤣🤣🤣
This is absolute stupidity to believe that human can influence the law of univers
Hey Trump nuke it!
Hey stop wasting in space and worry about the space between your ears LMFAO dum asses
They saw this article and decided to go full retard.
sciencealert.com/earths-rotation-is-slowing-down-and-it-could-explain-why-we-have-oxygen
Nuke the damn Dams
Throw shade on The CCP?? Who are you kitten? The most shady Government System in the. World. Has no regard for humans!
That’s true !
Oh my god!! .06 microseconds!!! Ahhh!! And what about the insane amount of polar ice that has been added to the oceans that causes a stronger pull on the earth by the moon??
I agree
Scary if the world was round hahah the biggest most bullshittest story I’ve heard in a million years hahha not only China has building so does the other 99% of the world governments lying one again
No Worries! Osama Laden had make-great job at flatten New-York Tower in 9/11! He had done the World a Great-job, doesn’t him, NASA! LOL!
Maybe the powers that be are restarting an old narrative war to justify blowing up the dam? Just wondrin
Trash content, click bait titles. Shame on you.
I don’t even care if it’s China , just stop throwing stupid articles in general.
China throws their own shade .. of pollution! The world’s biggest producer of toxic dirty air and land fills.
Utter bullshit
So how about Merica stops poisoning our air, water, block out the sun? Controll weather? Fueling endless wars, dropping 10s of tons of bombs and chemicals on other countries? Overconsuming etc? That doesn’t have an impact on earth? 😅
America while being 2nd in polution sits at 10% while China sits at 30%. So we pollute less while having a higher gdp and a much higher gdp per capita with the us at about 86000 and China at around 13000. But yeah we are the problem.
China is the biggest producer of toxic air and land pollution in the world. The United States has changed thousand fold in cleaning up and producing less toxins over the past 50 years.
It will be one hell of a story when it fails. It already has a bow in it that can be seen from space and its not bowing in the right direction
I call b.s. of the earth is rotating any ever consider the mass of earth and what it would tale to slowest down. I don’t believe a word of it.
The earth IS slowing down; but not on a time scale that is relevant to humans. This article is putting a false narrative on its causation and stupidly sensationalized, seemingly created with a biased agenda
Yes, China’s Three Gorges Dam does have a small but measurable impact on Earth’s rotation. The dam’s massive reservoir redistributes Earth’s mass, which alters the planet’s moment of inertia and causes a slight slowing of its rotation.
Here’s a more detailed explanation:
Mass Redistribution:
The dam’s reservoir, holding billions of cubic meters of water, changes the distribution of mass on Earth.
Moment of Inertia:
This redistribution affects Earth’s moment of inertia, which is a measure of how resistant the planet is to changes in its rotational speed.
Slowing of Rotation:
The increased moment of inertia due to the reservoir slightly slows down Earth’s rotation, increasing the length of a day by a minuscule amount, around 0.06 microseconds.
Other Effects:
The mass redistribution also causes a slight movement of Earth’s axis (around 2 centimeters).
Rephrase this statement i got an aneurysm tryna read it
Here I was getting used to the idea of a flat world.
Yes this is really old news I agree with you I believe this article or similar article came out in 2005
This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever read. The wrath doesn’t move.
This is never scientific. It rather is politically motivated.
Old news or new news..still not good news
Go and read this article…
W w w. sciencealert.com/earths-rotation-is-slowing-down-and-it-could-explain-why-we-have-oxygen
We have vast oceans sloshing around on the planet and a teensy weensy dam in comparison is doing that! It goes beyond the pale.
It’s strange when West was making humongous structures, the Eiffel Tower, train towers, Empire State Building etc etc all was fine and nothing huge there earth. But now when it’s the turn of Middle East and China scientists find that these structures are bad for climate and earth!!
What about the damage the Musk’s rockets cause in the atmosphere? Why this case doesn’t follow up?
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Yes. It is old news. Visited the Three Gorges Damn Project in 2000 and we were told then that it would change the rotation of the earth. We were also told that the purpose of the damn was primarily to save people downstream from flooding of the river. That was actually only partially true. The Chinese cared less about people’s lives and more about commercial access to land above the damn and hydroelectricity.
Why don’t you say something about the Hoover Dam in the U.S. of America and all the other dams all over that dammed country ? They have existed long before the 3 Gorges Dam, and they have affected the earth for a much longer time. Why don’t you say something about the fact that the US of A is the only country that has deployed 2 nuclear weapons on the civilians of another country with devastating effects on the victims and the environment even up to now. The US government is the one who doesn’t give a dam about the welfare of all the people in the world, including its own citizens.
I think you need to find some love and respect for USA. It’s true we used nukes. I’m not proud of that. We’ve made mistakes but we live in the best country on the planet. We need to reclaim our country and love it for the democracy we were born into. We could have easily been born elsewhere. Let that sink in.
No more political rants and remember we are Americsns and live in the best country.
A more profound fundamental ethical moral qualms will try to end war through strength demonstration by dropping those Nukes not where it will cause human and infrastructural casualties irreparable which took decades to build that does not hold the candle to wisdom.
As mass redistribution is part of the slowing velocity of earth rotation which of course the value all put together is relatively insignificant in scale why is China the target of this propaganda as if some other countries are not redistributing mass.
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Um… I wouldn’t panic people. A single fart in the wind would have e more environmental effect than this. We are talking about 6/100th of a Microsecond. A Microsecond is 1 millionth of a second – per day. Approx. 2 microseconds per year. 1/2 million years to equal a second. We will be long gone by then.
It won’t, in the long run the earth will adjust, just as it does when ice build up during ice ages etc. mountains push weight on the crust and the crust lowers into the mantle. As the mountain wears away the crust raises the crust. For every 12” worn the crust raises 10”. As ice melts in the north the crust raises under where the wait is removed. This time adjustment happens all the time. And it will happen again, as they fill the damn the crust will flex down to adjust for it.
The scientists attempt to proclaim Chinese progress harmful, is nonsense. Let’s compare that to global warming that is melting the artic and Antarctic. This melt will change the planet far more than this damn but they aren’t concerned about that!
Idc China sucks. Why should they be the only ones to screw with the Earth’s rotational movement!? I hope we build our own dams and make them so that they cause a bunch of monsoons near Beijing! That’ll teach them to be humble! 😡
You of course mean “weight”, and you obviously have no understanding of water and displacement. What you’re saying in effect is that, for example, a boat crossing an aqueduct puts more weight on the bridge support. This is plainly false.
China is dam if the do and dam if they don’t
Thought it was rubbish
The sheer massive city of concrete and steel of NYC has Created acid rain and changed the Earth forever, devastating ecosystems world wide. When will be open our eyes and start razing NYC before its too late?!
it’s is part of what is causing the melt. if you read the article. it explains the problem. the water in the dam uses to go somewhere else . it mentioned the tall building that is changing the wend patterns. it mentions this problem is everywhere.
It’s where the “weight” is removed & far more than “dam”
China is the largest contributer at 30% of all emissions.
Oh that’s because it can’t.
You walking against the rotation of the Earth affects its rotatation, just not by very much. So you should always walk as far west as you do east to avoid affecting the environment.
This article is just fear mongering. The envoronmental impact of the man made lake behind the dam has more impact on the environment every year (it significantly increases algae growth, and hence CO2 released into the atmosphere. Hydro power isn’t as green as we once thought.) than the rotational changes will over the life of the structure.
China… is not our friend
Millions of man made massive structures since last century have already altered Earth’s spin movement considerably.
Man is making nature’s job easy to cause his own devastation anytime soon.
I agreed. And all the mining and moving so mauvh mass here and there. The living earth is already off balanced.
You are a effing idiot John. There is nothing that rotates in any absolute sense, big deal, but the Earth obviously rotates relative to its own axis, and the proof of this is trade winds, watching the stars, the Corialis Effect, and the test of Foucault’s Pendulum, so you show yourself a real deluded baiting fool here.
You are just being a under bridge life, trying to be a sophisticated thinker, just to look superior by introducing an aburd red herring, but you clearly do not have any actual education to say.
This site is nothing but click bait, obviously. “Good” for you for making it worse.
He’s a flat Easter. Lol.
NASA’s Sour grapes attitude. It simply not possible as the land mass is not changing and only the land demography has changed. The project brings benefits to China.
Stupid article, trying to hype up panic among idiots. Lake Powell holds nearly as much water (8.8 trillion gallons vs 10.3). But the writer doesn’t suggest that it has changed the side of the earth’s rotation.
I understand that this comment comes from a person of principal. Not many college grads would credit his assertion that the earth does not in fact rotate.
Perhaps earth’s rotation is an illusion that scientists support as truth in order to profit in some way? A world wide conspiracy of scientists keeping us who are non-scientists in the dark.
Sure is a mystery to me.
Is there any chance that Elon Musk might be a part of this?
Oh please. With a website called sustainability tines, means global rubbish! Waste of my time reading
Yep marge. They did it go get me the big measuring stick and I’ll get to the bottom of this one.
Only if is made by China.
No proof. Idiot we have proof the sun sets the sun rises is just one of those proofs
FHS have you always been a complete idiot
The earth is flat. This is just more round earth propaganda for the masses to consume.
Hey Justin, you can’t comprehend that the curvature of earth is so gradual that you don’t notice it. And if it was flat we would have no season change or night and day.
You’re still in ancient time?
Utter bullshit
If you believe this BS, I have bridge to sell you 🤣
I no longer notice a change in the Earth’s rotation since I stopped drinking tequila.
(Full Disclosure: I’m not a scientist)
Best comment today. Cheers!
Hey John, if the earth didn’t rotate, we wouldn’t have day and night
Lets see them now put the weight of cities and movement of Rock in mines and houses and cars and every other nations dams including our own
Rivers redirected, whole lakes gone and others where non existed… whike they try to act ike physics is racist and only has effects when it is China’s stuff….
If it doesn’t, then how do you explain night and day? Surely your inbred teachers have taught you that there’s breaking news from outta the 17th century, it(Earth) HAS been found to rotate long before there wax recorded history. Friggin twat waffles. THE SUN IS THE CENTER OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM/GALAXY, not earth. ALL meaning each and every planet has nights and days, signifying that not just our planet rotates, but every one rotates around the sun, DUH!!
No way you could, maybe. In the same way my neighbour’s border collie can’t work a calculator, or the old tree stump in my yard can’t recite poetry.
I’ll bet the stump is way smarter, and more stimulating conversationally than you.
Have they no sense of what is negligible? .06 microseconds? REALLY! You seem not any better.
Earth do rotate on its axis in 24 hours!
Too many people in India might be slowing the Earth rotation?
Yes china
Check out
sciencealert.com/earths-rotation-is-slowing-down-and-it-could-explain-why-we-have-oxygen
China bad, US good. No no no, no china stuff, bad
Complete and total nonsense, nothing man can do can affect the earth rotation, end of story, this is sensationalism and its idiotic
Fuk it’s my mum isn’t it…
She’s gained a few and that’s gotta affect the wobble fosho!!
LOL well that’s more likely than a fuking dam you wankers .. fuk Idiocracy is coming true
All the Nuclear Bomb testing does it to for it the impact at angles pushes the earth off its axis ,and that’s where all the floods are happening for melted permafrost and glaciers puts lots extra water in atmosphere
It can’t since the Earth isn’t even moving
Yeah, PR China will build the world’s largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, but what does this mean for India and Bangladesh downstream? It could produce 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, according to an estimate provided in 2020 by the Power Construction Corp of PR China.
0.06 microseconds would take 1,666,666.66 days to equal 1 second of time. Basically equal to 4630 years for a one second difference. Enough said.
You honestly can’t believe that a damn dam is effecting the ENTIRE DAMN PLANET, sounds to me like people are desperate for propaganda… Humans are goddamn lame
Overweight Americans must alter the day by one hour.
Amazing how no one has mentioned the use of the nuclear bomb and it’s affects
Is NASA planning to do anything about this? 🤔
Like what. Nothing as every nation has stuff that should effect that to.They are blind eyeing all others that would even include our own nation. And if one has such a noticable effect. Add everything else us humans move around and not be biased trying to make one place look bad. Part of the effe t probably from every place to. Unless there’s mire deviation than they say and are actually only looking at china’s part in it.. which would be so wrong and nit show the real picture. Bet it makes climate make sense to.
More wobbly earth more strange seasons amd its been decades.
Amd we see how winter we are closer to the sun and tilted away but simmer further but tilted towards in north America. By only a few degrees. And they already let slip earth wobbles more than they told us in school.
Can someone explain how a dam can influence Earth’s rotation? Sounds like magic! 🧙♂️
That means you did not read all the articles
If you did you won’t ask for another explanation.
The weight of the water behind the dam.
I’m skeptical. How can something so small influence the entire planet?
Interesting read! This makes me wonder what other human activities have unseen global impacts.
Like everyone thinking about something at the same time, with all the people exerting energy at the same thing at the same time can it alter the physical word is some kind of way? Just thinking…
Total BS fake new$. Just like global warming Total B$!
So America iwas allowed to drop two atomic bombs on Japan without knowing the full scientific consequences at the time, Amazing.
I don’t want to discuss this anymore. Goodbye.
So, 0.06 microseconds? What’s the big deal? 🤷
Thats what she said.
It’s ten times the size of Paris! And the weight of 10.6 trillions gallons of water, not naturally growing over time, but all at once respectively, I imagine it could affect a great number of things including the planet. Everything we build, Destroy, blow up, mine, drill, fill, puncture, fly, are affecting the planet not to mention the projects like the CERN project is 17 Mile Long facility smashing atoms, drilling for oil in the oceans and leaking oil out into the oceans on a daily basis, flying Rockets into the sky puncturing holes in the ozone layers, all the nuclear weapons that are tested underwater and in the air, nuclear power plants, strip mining and blasting roads through mountains, what about the geothermal power plants that drill holes down deep into the Earth, cutting down the rain forests, and crucial trees everywhere, wind farms, pig farms, feed lots, dams, jet fuel in the air, Mercury and nuclear waste in every body of water, hundreds of species extinction we caused, mass amounts of pollution, trash and landfills, poisons, co2 emissions, batteries, electronic waste, bio hazard waste and THE PLASTICS, just the mass amounts of plastics made that live forever, affect our planet and the speed of rotation, the axis, shape and probably the weight of this planet. Let’s not stop there, it affects our whole solar system in some way, and even though scientists are not smart enough yet to figure out what the affects are does not mean that they’re not happening, and it doesn’t take very much to upset the balance of….. , a 0001 variation, is so gradual that you won’t notice right away but in 5 years when you look back and you see how far off the line you are at a steady 0001 the change will be great. This planet was designed to take care of itself however it can only fix itself so fast and we are damaging it faster and faster every year. I would worry about all the damage being done the slight change in rotation the length of the day really doesn’t matter it’ll be so toxic before that’s even noticeable we’ll all be dead. It doesn’t need fancy words or Scholars to understand this to be true.
5000nuks enough!
Now, what are we going to do with 2.68 microseconds, wevwill have to have a Steering Committee to discuss and put out a brochure to help the masses decide on that extra time. Is it going to,be during working hours , liesure hours or sleep hours?
Is this article a joke? It’s hard to believe a dam can affect Earth’s rotation.
More reasons to be mindful of our environmental footprint! Thanks for the insight.
Does this mean we’re slowly shifting the Earth’s balance? Scary thought.
China’s engineering prowess is impressive, but are they considering the consequences?
Thanks for the article. I had no idea about the Three Gorges Dam’s global impact.
So, should we be worried about this? How does it affect our daily lives?
Can we reverse the effects or is this change permanent?
What other human activities could potentially affect Earth’s rotation?
This is incredible. I had no idea infrastructure projects could have such global effects. 🌍
Is this just theoretical or have scientists measured these changes?
This “news” is years old.
You believe this your a dummy!
Earth doesn’t spin!
Hey Gs, if the earth doesn’t spin, could you explain how we get day and night. If the earth was flat, the sun would have to pan across the flat surface to get day and night “Dummy”
Are there any other dams in the world that could have a similar impact?
Great article! It’s amazing how connected everything on Earth is.
Talk about being unbelievably jealous, I’m still laughing! “It’s possible, maybe, that this will alter the Earth’s rotation with zero scientific evidence towards our guess/hate session” lmao
America again.
I’m curious, how does this compare to natural disasters’ effects on Earth’s rotation?
Seems like we need to be more careful with our engineering projects. Thanks for the wake-up call!
How does this affect climate change? Any link there?
Well, it’ll cause erratic seasonal changes. It could increase or decrease severity of storms. But tbh we’d need at least 3 more of these dams to really be sure.
So, what’s next? Are we going to slow down the Earth even more? 😅
Is this a problem only NASA is concerned about or are other agencies involved too?
Is this going to affect GPS systems or other technologies reliant on precise timing?
America propaganda if they can have it their way they gladly would drop 2 more bombs on the dam without thinking about consequences on earth
Such an eye-opening article. We really do need to consider the environmental impacts of our constructions.
Ummm so you don’t have any data? The earth’s forces is so much bigger than this dam that there is no way it affects the earth’s rotation to any significant degree.
Seems like propaganda.
What a complete load of Bullsh*t 🤣
This sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie. Is this article for real?
I just don’t understand why they wanted to build something so massive if it isn’t going to provide 3% of the energy needed, doesn’t actually make financial sense! Why don’t they try building solar farms and wind turbines to help offset their energy needs? I don’t understand how anything like this would slow the Earth’s rotation by that much but if you say so, I’m just wondering how you came to that conclusion? Formula used or the science behind it? Examples?
End China, problem solved.
Thank you for shedding light on this important topic. It’s crucial we understand our impact on Earth.
Would it balance out if a similar dam were to be built in the southern hemisphere. Someplace like Brazil of Chile?
Nonsensical drivel.
Wow, what ai did you use to write this? Very good
Is this going to cause any significant issues for the planet or is it just a minor change?
More quasi-scientific dribble.
LOL. DAM humans.
Should Russia really be part of a nuclear program on our moon?
Lmao, I don’t think I’d be worried about a Dam that china has built I’d be more worried about the fact they have a artificial sun and shit. We have Dam’s in the USA, not a big ass deal.
How many degrees Celsius can the entire amount of water warm up?
This… This is not good. We need to do something about this.
Who are you?
Israeli publication pushing stupid anti-China propaganda? (0.06ms is laughable, tsunamis have a bigger effect by like a factor of 10 or 100) Classic Western cope 🤡🤡🤡
Agreed, no impact from thousands of bombs dropped by US and israel but only by a usfull damm built by china its gona cause issues
LOL. DAM humans.
.06 micro seconds??? BFD!!! Find something with worrying about already.
Anytime you climb a flight of stairs you lengthen the day. Descend and you shorten it. The Earth had a longer day during the Ice Age, a much shorter one during the age of Pangaea. And yet all these changes would be too small to be noticed. When did science get so hysterical?
WHERE ARE ALL THE FUSION-EXCLUSIONARY PRO FISSILE NUCLEAR ENERGISTS NOW!?
D:<
I believe Global warming with melting of the poles and redistribution of rotatonal mass more of a concern.
What is the time differential measured against?
Is this 0.06 microseconds per second?
This is absolute nonsense. It is Americans rubbishing anything Chinese again.
China has surprised the West,specially USA and this fear mongering for the rest of the world is its immediate response. Well done China.Keep it up. Leading the world in progress is not the right of the USA only,not any more specially after they made a real estate agent its president.
Many years ago I heard on a TV program that because of the earth and other planets orbit that they ar worn smoth.They are as smooth as a marble. It is hard to imagine any structure making a difference in the earths rotation.
Yep marge. They did it go get me the big measuring stick and I’ll get to the bottom of this one.
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The effort was intended to counter China’s growing geopolitical sway around the globe, including in Southeast Asia.
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If China had NOT built the 3 Gorges Dam, the author if this propaganda hit piece would be blaming China for burning coal instead of clean hydro. China is dam if they do and dam if they dont
NASA refused to let China participate in the International space station in 2011.
(So China built its own space station)
NASA refused to let Chinese scientist examine US Moon soilsampes
(So China shared its lunarsoil samples with NASA)
For what it’s worth, 0.06 microseconds, or 60 nanoseconds, is the time it takes light to travel 60 feet.
For what it’s worth, 0.06 microseconds, or 60 nanoseconds, is the time it takes for light to travel 60 feet.
For what it’s worth, 0.06 microseconds (60 nanoseconds) is the time it takes for light to travel 60 feet.
Has anyone considered the affects of wind turbines on the earth’s weather system? Wind that was once free to move across the surface of our planet is being restricted and altered by human intervention. Oops
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Slowing Earth rotation, moon moving away from earth, global warming, biofuel, Trump’s Peter pan syndrome, Elon’s ketamin addition, USA empire decline, dedollarisation, God.
All the above is Chinese fault, specially if written by an American.
Even if this is true, do the math, it’s such a small impact that it’s not even worthy of mentioning. I think NASA is now a propaganda machine, perhaps aimed against other nations because it’s lack off recently.
How about the extraction of oil all over the world in the past decades ? The volume and weight of oil extracted far exceed the water volume and weight of dammed by Three Gorges.
This is a PSYOP just like the Flat earth theory and the Climate change hoax.
“China leads the charge as the world’s foremost producer of hydroelectric power.” And they wonder why they can’t find any fish. I don’t think the common person understands that these hydroelectric damns are essentially giant blenders destroying most aquatic life that attempts to travel through them. With the increasing size of the list of extinct and endangered species on the planet hydroelectric damns should be considered a threat until mechanisms protecting wildlife are implemented.
You mention NASA but where is the link? Without a reference to the source this whole piece is not credible
Yes, it’s true that the Three Gorges Dam in China has slightly altered Earth’s rotation. The massive volume of water redistributed by the dam has increased Earth’s moment of inertia, slowing the planet’s rotation by about 0.06 microseconds per day.
To put this in perspective, the length of a day is around 86,400,000 seconds, so the change represents a 0.00000007% increase in day length. While real, the effect is extremely small and has no significant impact on daily life or global stability.
Well, perhaps that new Three Gorges Dam in China will counteract the weight that the city of New York in America must have been putting on the Earth for many years already. Maybe the Earth will be put back to its pre-city spin and shape. 🤣
Yet no one wants to talk about our own engineering quests and their potential consequences on our planet.
I live close to the Ohio river and the last set of locks they put in front new Orleans all the way up past Pittsburgh and up into Iowa I think maybe further than that but here along our stretch of river they brought the water level up 13 or 15 feet for a little over 30 miles. What was once 100 ft wide in places is now 1000 ft easily. The local camp ground lost 15 acres of land and everyone up and down the river had lost property. They did the same thing for thousands of miles of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Most of our state forests exist because of ecological disasters mining disaster are big around here.
Our hands are not clean
Once upon a time I got a cheap set of used tires while traveling and had this messed up shimmy in my front end then they balanced it or did it right the second time idk but to think a couple ones of weight on my wheel could effect my car tire like that really made me think about all the stuff we ship everyday the cities we build I can’t believe we haven’t thrown the whole planet off on a different trajectory.
Really
I can’t believe we are in a race to find another planet to go ruin
Never learn from our mistakes
If the entire population of China jump at once, the earth will get out of its orbit
The dangers of unhampered development in one country negatively affects the entire planet. 3 GORGES DAM is a clear threat to the Earth’s ecological balance resulting from human pride and arrogance.
Is there no end or at least caution to rich countries actions that compromise the ecological balance of the planet?
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Science without conscience is nothing but a destruction of the soul.
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China, China, China!!
Let’s not talk about things like AI, which is a giant demand on water and drain on electricity to the point they want to be directly tied into power plants.
Unless you’re Elon Musk.
Then you just use portable methane generators for the citizens downwind to enjoy!!
Isn’t about 70% of the earth’s surface covered in salt water? Hmm, maybe it’s pooling fresh water that’s the confounding variable.
I have rarely observed such extreme ignorance compounded so by stupidity. That goes for the concerns of the article and the comments.
The Chinese dam is slowing down the earth? Omg apocalypse is coming! I sure hope the massive dams in america isn’t slowing the earth down!
This strange political responses are uncalled for and unfortunate. If china alone can artificially distort Earth’s geometry – and they need 30 such dams for power sufficiency. How many of such dams do we need in Africa which suffers power bankruptcy. If china is allowed to build 30 such dams and we add up other such dams across the globe – and nothing’s stopping nobody building bigger dams – then this article and author merit global credits.
Giving this article it’s due credits doesn’t conflict with relishing in undue hate of trump/musk.
Due credits can also go to china’s engineering prowess without stifling sustainability concerns
Microseconds should be of grave concern when it comes to commerce interfering with nature. Commerce is prone to dispronate expansion when it’s successful example is digital commerce
This makes no sense. What about the ocean then? Is that also slowing down the earth’s rotation? Gimme a break.
Regardless of factual correctness, the piece is so clearly AI generated. This is really poor.
Bet you still think Santa & the Easter Bunny visit every year to lmfao but the large object is this giant post full of craparoni! Guessing the Easter bunny and Santa still visit you’re house every year, ya have a onesy on, still stay at home, and are 53…..God it’s called global warming
COMPLETE CROCK OF BULL SHITE!! M
It’s ten times the size of Paris! And the weight of 10.6 trillions gallons of water, not naturally growing over time, but all at once respectively, I imagine it could affect a great number of things including the planet. Everything we build, Destroy, blow up, mine, drill, fill, puncture, fly, are affecting the planet not to mention the projects like the CERN project is 17 Mile Long facility smashing atoms, drilling for oil in the oceans and leaking oil out into the oceans on a daily basis, flying Rockets into the sky puncturing holes in the ozone layers, all the nuclear weapons that are tested underwater and in the air, nuclear power plants, strip mining and blasting roads through mountains, what about the geothermal power plants that drill holes down deep into the Earth, cutting down the rain forests, and crucial trees everywhere, wind farms, pig farms, feed lots, dams, jet fuel in the air, Mercury and nuclear waste in every body of water, hundreds of species extinction we caused, mass amounts of pollution, trash and landfills, poisons, co2 emissions, batteries, electronic waste, bio hazard waste and THE PLASTICS, just the mass amounts of plastics made that live forever, affect our planet and the speed of rotation, the axis, shape and probably the weight of this planet. Let’s not stop there, it affects our whole solar system in some way, and even though scientists are not smart enough yet to figure out what the affects are does not mean that they’re not happening, and it doesn’t take very much to upset the balance of….. , a 0001 variation, is so gradual that you won’t notice right away but in 5 years when you look back and you see how far off the line you are at a steady 0001 the change will be great. This planet was designed to take care of itself however it can only fix itself so fast and we are damaging it faster and faster every year. I would worry about all the damage being done the slight change in rotation the length of the day really doesn’t matter it’ll be so toxic before that’s even noticeable we’ll all be dead. It doesn’t need fancy words or Scholars to understand this to be true.
Is it really ir are we flinging mud cause that creates more energy independence for China
Why don’t you say something about the Hoover Dam in the U.S. of America and all the other dams all over that dammed country ? They have existed long before the 3 Gorges Dam, and they have affected the earth for a much longer time. Why don’t you say something about the fact that the US of A is the only country that has deployed 2 nuclear weapons on the civilians of another country with devastating effects on the victims and the environment even up to now. The US government is the one who doesn’t give a dam about the welfare of all the people in the world, including its own citizens.
More loes coming from the people who fake the space trips 🙄 tzz they lie about china because think about it china will end up having billions of gallons of water, control the water control life itself simple math not a scientific thought or explanation needed
This is absolute rubbish. For anyone that does their research, they will find that the Earth rotation speed is actually INCREASING. NATURALLY.
Oh puhleeeeeze, this is something very very tiny, in a tiny space on this planet. I seriously doubt it affects anything at all as far as length of day. Where is the proof? There is none. Also, keep in mind, that “time” is a man-made construct.
Lol yeah let’s throw a fit now because china’s doing it. Smh. By time that catastrophically affects anyone we may all already be gone. Humans have been affecting earth and destroying this planet ever since humans learned to turn trees into paper, and found everything else they could use trees for and found minerals and all sorts of rss underground, on land and under the ocean floor destroying fragile ecosystems everywhere to build factories that not only affect the air and atmosphere themselves but creating products that contribute to polluting and damaging the atmosphere and polluting the air. humans in general are the problem to this planet. We’re a virus and destructive in nature. Maybe something catastrophically needs to happen to humankind in order for the rest of life and all of nature to regain balance and heal itself. We humans destroy and kill everything we touch, and it’s only ever gonna get worse. countries will only continue to create more and go bigger and bigger creating more and more problems and causing disturbances to the planet, and will only realize it and try to solve it when it’s to late. We will bring our own extinction
B.F.D. Anytime anyone climbs a ladder, walks upstairs, or hikes uphill, they’re also slowing the earths rotation. Anyone who remembers high school physics knows this.
The only reason it slows the earths rotation is because the dams latitude is at 30N. If it were located at 45 degrees or higher the water’s mass would be closer to the axis of rotation and the earth would be spinning faster instead. And since momentum is conserved, whenever they have to lower the reservoir the earth will just spin faster again.
This is all BS, how colossal structure have already been built? How many nuke have been dropped? And now some damn is going to affect the earth’s rotation? NASA needs to spend their time and money on researching things that matter and stop wasting time on insignificant things.
We need to destroy both dams to restore earths natural rotation.
5000nuks enough!
How
If there is no extra matter created. It’s the same water evaporating and raining. In fact the river water flows into the sea and back thru rain
The earthquake increased it and the dam decreased it.. so not a problem..
It’s a common principle of physics which postulates that “energy lost is energy gain”. For sure all the concrete and other chemicals add to form a structure are obtained from the earth. Even the road network linking cities ulter the original formation of the earth, the minerals mined are no exceptions, the burning of fossil fuels, manufacturing of batteries used at home, just to name a few poses potential danger in their own ways. So when ever the earth is tired it will always readjust itself and this might likely result in the movement of tectonic plates that is likely to cause earthquakes or faults and landslides. Potential flooding that have never been seen before. Energy lost is energy gain.
Whatever effect massive dams have, they do not change the laws of gravity.