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Does The Earth Weigh More Or Less Now Than It Did 2000 Years Ago?

By Male Muse ⋅ February 23, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

The other day I was having a conversation with a friend about the efforts to try make computers "green" and afterwards I started thinking.  Does the Earth weigh more or less now than it did 2000 years ago?

I did some Googling and found this article on Yahoo! answers, however I am not sure I agree with the theory that was being presented there.

hey theorized that the Earth is being bombarded by tons of stuff from space everyday.  Ok, I can believe that, even though I have never actually witnessed something hitting the ground from space myself.  Sure I have seen some falling stars, but I never actually saw one hit the ground.  Seems to me they mostly burn up on entry through our atmosphere.
Anyway, what about the fact that there are more people today than 2000 years ago.  And what about all the oil we have sucked out of the Earth then converted it into gas then burned in our automobiles and so on?  It seems that one gallon of liquid gas weighs more than the dusk or smoke that is the results of it burning.  We also allegedly sent some stuff into space in the form of satellites and some more stuff to the moon.

Does anybody have a good answer to the question if the Earth weighs more today than 2000 years ago?

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