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bianconero
Sep 1, 2002
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    Is the world getting heavier?

    With the ever increasing population and animals and plants needed to feed them, and the ever increasing demands of commercialism to produce new goods, buildings, objects, I ask again: Is the world getting heavier?
    No, because we're using stuff that was already on the Earth to do that. If anything it's getting lighter because off all the satellites and space stations out there.
    According to current estimates, about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial matter hit the Earth every year.
    Add to that and the proof that the Earth's gravity is measurably increasing proves it is getting heavier, does it not?
     

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    Ohaulick
    Oct 28, 2010
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    According to current estimates, about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial matter hit the Earth every year.
    Add to that and the proof that the Earth's gravity is measurably increasing proves it is getting heavier, does it not?
    Well that probably just evens it out. Where'd you get the proof that the gravity is increasing though? I'd like to read that.
     
    Jun 13, 2007
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    According to current estimates, about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial matter hit the Earth every year.
    Add to that and the proof that the Earth's gravity is measurably increasing proves it is getting heavier, does it not?
    I'm not a physicist, but I think the saying the Earth's gravity is increasing because of that matter hitting earth would be the equivalent of saying that a human being's chances of cardiac arrest is increasing after eating a potato chip. I mean, technically it could be true, but it would seem to me negligible. I don't know if this also makes sense, but aren't we consuming tons of natural resources each year; like oil for example?
     

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