TIL the Three Gorges Dam in China is so massive it has slowed the rotation of the Earth
中国的三峡大坝太大了，把地球的旋转都拖慢了
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MajorNoodles
Tl:DR it's not the size of the dam itself that slowed the rotation of the Earth, it's the sheer volume of water mass that has shifted because of the dam.
不是大坝本身的体积拖慢了地球旋转，而是大坝造成的垂直的水的体积。
812many
Just like how an ice skater will slow their rotation by moving their arms away from their body, by lifting an amount of water away from the axis of spin of the planet it will slow the planets spin by that much. At least, that's what I'm guessing is the reason.
就像滑冰的人通过伸展手臂来减慢自己的转动速度，将一定量的水推离地球的旋转轴可以相应降低地球的转速。至少这是我猜测的原因。
pulse14
Moment of inertia
转动惯量。
BIOHAZARDB10
I understand perfectly now. Thank you
完全理解了，谢谢你。
devilslaughters
Gotta thank skaters, how else will we phrase complex physics and be understood easily?
我们应该感谢溜冰的人，要不然我们怎么能把复杂的物理表达的容易理解？
ARN_01D
Even standing up out of bed in the morning slows down the rotation of the earth. The rpms may be indistinguishable from zero, but it does slow down
甚至早上从床上站起来都能减慢地球的自传。虽然减慢的速度接近于零，但确实是减慢了。
Zappke
So when I lay on my back, my morning wood...
所以当我躺在床上，我的早上就会……
MissFix8ed
It's not you pushing off the ground that makes you jump, it's the earth pushing you away. (I ? physics)
让你跳起来的并不是你把地面推开，而是地球把你推开。（我爱物理。）
pizzabyAlfredo
I was going to say, the materials the dam has been constructed with are already on earth...but pooling massive amounts of water would do the trick.
Edit: since users want to blast me for this...I was basing this off of a ballast effect. I know the water was already there. Having a large amount of water pooled to one side of the earth could be enough to slightly shift the center of gravity making the rotation just that much slower.
我要说的是，建造大坝的物质已经在地球上……但集中大量的水能够产生效果。
编辑：因为有人想因为这句话炸了我，我把这种情况归结为一种压载效应。我知道水也在那里。但是把水集种到地球的一边足够轻微的改变其重心，让地球转动速度变慢。
CoopertheFluffy
So was the water though. It's all about the placement.
水也是这样。只不过是位置问题。
gwopy
Elevation was the word you wanted...more specific than placement.
你想说的应该是海拔，这个词更合适。
greendestinyster
Even more specific... conservation of angular momentum!
更合适的是角动量守恒！
Utis_Khan
wow this is exactly what is going on.
就是这么个道理。
Erares
So in theory... If one could shift massive amounts of water up in elevation and in turn affecting how storms work and potentially using them as a weapon?
所以理论上，如果有人能把大量的水抬高到一定海拔，转而影响风暴的形成，有潜力当做武器使用？
wbotis
Can’t you explain just about anything by reducing it to “conservation laws?”
难道不能把它解释成守恒定律？
greendestinyster
Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that!
潮来潮去。你不能那么解释！
Athildur
That's just Poseidon and his shenanigans, trying to keep the ancient Greeks guessing.
只不过是波塞冬为了让古希腊人胡思乱想而搞的恶作剧。
NimChimspky
That quote is so amazing.
I might watch it again.
引用的那句话很赞。我想再看一遍。
wbotis
Fuck it! We’ll do it live!
其他的！我们要现场直播！
RMCPhoto
To the top plz
顶上首页。
Jericho85
I've heard about this numerous times, never understood why until this comment thread.
这件事我听了好多次了，从来没搞懂，直到这个看到这个讨论串。
rising3d
Even more specific... gravity
更合适的是重力。
toasters_are_great
Elevation, yes, but far and away the most important consideration is latitude. If this were at the Arctic Circle, say, then the reservoir water (that ultimately is transferred from the world ocean) would wind up closer to the Earth's rotation axis than it was before for a smaller moment of inertia. The Earth would spin slightly faster than before and the day shorten. Exact breakeven latitude depends on the distribution of the world ocean and the integral of the square of the cosine of the latitude of its parts.
海拔，是的，但最重要的考虑因素是纬度。如果三峡大坝建在北极圈，那么水库里的水（最终从世界各大洋转移而来）将比转动惯量较小之前更加靠近地球的自转轴。地球将会比之前转的快一点，一天的时间会变短。精确的盈亏平衡纬度取决于世界海洋的分布和其纬度纬度余弦的平方积分。
gwopy
I'll just catch your mic for you there, sir. Wouldn't want it to get damaged.
我会在那里帮你接住麦克风的，老大。不想把它摔坏。
bandanagirl95
As a sound designer, I thank you for not letting the dropped mic hit the floor.
Edit: fixed autocorrect
作为一个音响设计师，我谢谢你没让那个麦克风掉到地上。
JCMcFancypants
Could you accurately say that you've slowed the rotation of the earth by increasing the elevation of any mass...just by an insignificantly minute amount?
你难道不能准确的说你通过增加任何物质的海拔来降低地球的自转速度？只不过减小的量微不足道。
Theurv
That's why time goes so fast when you sleep. When you get up in the morning the world slows back down
这就是为什么你睡觉的时候时间过得这么快。当你早上醒来世界的速度又降回去了。
Heslay_Cashlion
I hope...... the rise of my morning wood would make the world spin slower.
Someone please confirm or lie to me so I can show my wife!
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