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Did the Three Gorges Dam really slowed down the Earth? How is that even possible? It's like an ant slowing down a basketball.
60 nanoseconds
Yes but in only a few million years we will have to have a negative leap day to adjust.
but at what cost?
I'm pretty sure there are Western buildings that affects the Earth far worse.
if the headline doesn't specify how much then it coud be like .0000001% and probably is
Classic western mouthpiece manipulation. They won't talk about the hazardous Western works but will hue and cry over the insignificant Eastern works.
conservation of angular momentum. you can intuitively sense this by spinning in an office chair and extending and retracting your arms, when your arms move away from the center your rotation slows down
Wouldn't the dam's effect be like extending and retracting a finger?
wasn't trying to draw an analogy of scale, it would be much much smaller than even that
They never said by how much.
You can slow down the earth's rotation by climbing some stairs. (Assuming you aren't at one of the poles.)
Relevant xkcd.