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Yes big dam do redistribute mass and alter the Earth's rotation. But by my rough calculations the Three Gorges Dam should lengthen the day by roughly 0.05 to 0.06 microseconds. So around 1 second every 50,000 years. You are more likely to get late to work because your alarm run out of battery :-)



> You are more likely to get late to work because your alarm run out of battery :-)

Or because you spend precious sleep time on pointless comments online...


And yours is a recursive comment....We might get a stackoverflow on this simulation...




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