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minus-squareJay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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-squareDem Bosain@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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-21 month agoAnd every time they manufacture a Bic, the world gets a little lighter.
minus-squareDannyBoy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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-up0·1 month agoTwo men in a boat is already pretty hot for some people.
minus-squareDem Bosain@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYeah, and when you burn that fuel it gets hotter, and that makes it a little lighter too.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month 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-squareddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoWhat is heavier, one ton of meteors or one ton of hydrogen?
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoOnly if you use imperial units. The article uses tonnes, which is a unit of mass, not weight.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoYes but I would interpret “heavy” to be a function of weight, not mass.
minus-squareJay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWhoops my bad, my brain was in a different place while I typed.
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
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.
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.
What is heavier, one ton of meteors or one ton of hydrogen?
African or European?
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.
Whoops my bad, my brain was in a different place while I typed.