{"id":4404,"date":"2025-08-27T00:58:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:58:34","slug":"nasa-reports-that-an-enormous-engineered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4404","title":{"rendered":"NASA reports that an enormous engineered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>1. A Tiny Extension to Our Day<\/strong><br>Time is a resource \u201cnone of us can reclaim once it\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remarkably, China\u2019s Three Gorges Dam has slightly slowed Earth\u2019s rotation, lengthening a solar day by about 0.06 microseconds, or 60 millionths of a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. How a Dam Can Affect the Planet<\/strong><br>By moving billions of tons of water into its reservoir, the dam alters Earth\u2019s mass distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao explains: \u201cTransferring massive volumes of water from lower river channels into a high-elevation reservoir expands Earth\u2019s effective radius, slowing the planet\u2019s rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Detecting the Change<\/strong><br>Using satellite and geodetic data, scientists measured the subtle effect on Earth\u2019s rotation and polar motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although imperceptible to humans, it\u2019s detectable with modern instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. Human Impact and Perspective<\/strong><br>Beyond energy generation and flood control, this tiny slowdown shows how human projects leave measurable planetary footprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the article notes, this \u201csymbolizes the profound scale at which humanity now operates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. A Tiny Extension to Our DayTime is a resource \u201cnone of us can reclaim once it\u2019s gone.\u201d Remarkably, China\u2019s Three Gorges Dam has slightly slowed Earth\u2019s rotation, lengthening a solar day by about 0.06 microseconds, or 60 millionths of a second. 2. How a Dam Can Affect the PlanetBy moving billions of tons of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4406,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/4406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}