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Already Equipped with a Dam That Slows the Earth's Rotation, China Is Now Building an Even Larger $165 Billion Hydropower Colossus (indiandefencereview.com)
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[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In 2005, NASA scientists calculated that the shift of water mass stored by the dams would increase the total length of the Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds and make the Earth slightly more round in the middle and flat on the poles.

60 nanoseconds

[–] Lurkmore@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes but in only a few million years we will have to have a negative leap day to adjust.

but at what cost?

[–] asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure there are Western buildings that affects the Earth far worse.