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I had no idea 100 tons of external material was entering our atmosphere each day. Fascinating.

• timschmidt 1y ago
  An additional tidbit: this is not enough mass to offset the amount of helium and hydrogen which escapes Earth's atmosphere daily. Earth is on net losing mass. Eventually, Earth will lose all the hydrogen locked in it's oceans via this process. Not sure if that's destined to happen before or after we're engulfed by the expanding sun though.
  • khuey 1y ago
    At the current rate of loss Earth has 150 billion years worth of hydrogen.
    • rkomorn 1y ago
      Well that's bad news for all the infrastructure projects in my current city and country. They're gonna run out of hydrogen before our subway extension is finished.