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According to Snopes, the mass of the water held back by the dam (39 trillion kilograms, or 42 billion tons) is sufficient to change the rotation of the earth:
by UIUC_06 3y ago
According to Snopes, the mass of the water held back by the dam (39 trillion kilograms, or 42 billion tons) is sufficient to change the rotation of the earth:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-three-gorges-dam/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-three-gorges-dam/
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/13-facts-about-the-controversial-massive-chinese-dam-that-slowed-the-earths-rotation https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/13-facts-about...
So why is this being downvoted, when the subject is ground subsidence from man-made structures?