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Nasa Claims Massive Human-Built Structure Is Slowing Earth’s Rotation
Although it is virtually impossible to change the laws of time, NASA has discovered that a massive man-made structure in China is so large that it may have changed the way the Earth rotates.
Even if the majority of people would spend it staring at their phones, it would be good to have a bit more time each year to accomplish things while the Doomsday Clock ticks down.
Although you may have assumed that this was impossible, NASA has now found that a significant landmark in China is so enormous that it has really changed the rotation of our globe, extending the year.
Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre has disclosed research that connects a shift in Earth’s orbit to the weight and magnitude of China’s Three Gorges Dam, as reported by LADbible.
The Three Gorges Dam, which spans the Yangtze River close to Sandouping and was finished in 2012, is the largest power plant in the world in terms of installed capacity.
At its highest point, it is 185 meters above sea level and 2,335 meters wide. The entire cost of construction was $20.4 billion.
Because of its capacity to store about 40 cubic kilometres, or 10 trillion gallons, of water, the Three Gorges Dam creates a mass shift that lengthens each day on Earth by 0.06 microseconds, making our planet flatter on top and rounder in the centre.
Due to the fact that one microsecond is equal to 0.000001 seconds, the Three Gorges Dam really “moved” time by only 0.00000006 seconds, thus regrettably, you would not be able to sense this extension of time in any way.
The equivalent mass shift of 16,666,666 Three Gorges Dams would be required for the Earth to move sufficiently to produce a single second of extra time, however that may scale somewhat differently if it all happened at once!
Dr. Chao has further added that this movement “amounts to a bit more than 3 days over the entire age of the universe,” so in the grand scheme of 13.8 billion years, it’s not too much to worry about thankfully.
“Can we just take it all at once now in the form of an extra three-day weekend?” jokes one user in a Reddit thread following the news, with another adding that we “slowed down the earth before [we got] GTA 6.”
Although you would have assumed that unambiguous evidence from some of the most knowledgeable scientists in the world would have been sufficient to persuade them differently, it’s undoubtedly another serious blow to any flat earthers who are still alive.
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