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minus-squareJay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoOur planet actually gets roughly 50,000 tonnes lighter every year. (We gain 40t from meteors but also lose about 90t of hydrogen.) https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sept-1-2018-gene-editing-in-dogs-wildfire-prediction-zika-fizzles-and-more-1.4804892/is-earth-getting-heavier-or-lighter-1.4804900
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agoMath does not check out. 40 - 90 = -50. Not 50,000. Edit: from the source, the correct statement is “We gain 40 000 t from meteors but also lose about 90 000 t of hydrogen.
minus-squareJay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoWhoops my bad, my brain was in a different place while I typed.
minus-squareddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoWhat is heavier, one ton of meteors or one ton of hydrogen?
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoOnly if you use imperial units. The article uses tonnes, which is a unit of mass, not weight.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoYes but I would interpret “heavy” to be a function of weight, not mass.
minus-squareDem Bosain@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoDon’t forget to account for all the helium leaking out of balloons. That’s part of the reason the earth gets lighter too.
minus-squareEvacuateSoul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agoAnd every time they manufacture a Bic, the world gets a little lighter.
minus-squareDannyBoy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThere’s two men in a boat, and they have three cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
minus-squareDem Bosain@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoTwo men in a boat is already pretty hot for some people.
minus-squareDem Bosain@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoYeah, and when you burn that fuel it gets hotter, and that makes it a little lighter too.
Our planet actually gets roughly 50,000 tonnes lighter every year. (We gain 40t from meteors but also lose about 90t of hydrogen.) https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sept-1-2018-gene-editing-in-dogs-wildfire-prediction-zika-fizzles-and-more-1.4804892/is-earth-getting-heavier-or-lighter-1.4804900
Math does not check out.
40 - 90 = -50. Not 50,000.
Edit: from the source, the correct statement is “We gain 40 000 t from meteors but also lose about 90 000 t of hydrogen.
Whoops my bad, my brain was in a different place while I typed.
What is heavier, one ton of meteors or one ton of hydrogen?
Depends on gravity ;-)
Only if you use imperial units. The article uses tonnes, which is a unit of mass, not weight.
Yes but I would interpret “heavy” to be a function of weight, not mass.
African or European?
Don’t forget to account for all the helium leaking out of balloons. That’s part of the reason the earth gets lighter too.
And every time they manufacture a Bic, the world gets a little lighter.
There’s two men in a boat, and they have three cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
Two men in a boat is already pretty hot for some people.
Yeah, and when you burn that fuel it gets hotter, and that makes it a little lighter too.