UNSEEN INSIGHTS on Instagram: "The Three Gorges Dam in China is so large that when its reservoir filled, holding back about 39 trillion kilograms of water, it redistributed enough mass across the planet to slightly alter Earth’s rotation. This redistribution caused the planet’s moment of inertia to change in a way similar to how a figure skater slows down when extending their arms. The result was an increase in the length of a day by about 0.06 microseconds, which is far too small for humans to

Pixel Fact on Instagram: "The Three Gorges Dam in China is so large that when its reservoir filled, holding back about 39 trillion kilograms of water, it redistributed enough mass across the planet to slightly alter Earth’s rotation. This redistribution caused the planet’s moment of inertia to change in a way similar to how a figure skater slows down when extending their arms. The result was an increase in the length of a day by about 0.06 microseconds, which is far too small for humans to perce