at some point wont we unbalance mother earth?

Question

tall biuldings and man made objects must have an effect on the earth right?

Answer 1

naw...not in any measurable way

Answer 2

I've often wondered the effect of megapopulations on seismic cycles in California. I'm sure there must be some type of impact.

Theoretically, if everyone were to move to the same area of the Earth there should be some effect. If everyone moved to the same area of Earth and jump up and down at the same time, I'm sure unpleasant things would occure.

However the only documented case of anything similar that really comes to mind at the moment is, somewhere in Nevada I think it was, they were desalinating briney water from below the desert and pumping the unusable portion back into the ground near a fault. The water lubricated the fault, it slipped, and caused a small earthquake....they ceased their project.

Answer 3

Your "mother" is in a constant state of unbalance. That's what makes the rivers flow, volcanoes erupt, forest fires and rain.

Anything man does is inconsequential in the big picture. Any "unbalance" created by man would only seek to eliminate man, then the Earth would go back in "balance". That's the way God made it, "mother earth" has nothing to do with it.

Answer 4

OOooh! I have JUST the news story for you. This is way cool, and I have been wanting to share it ALL DAY!

These guys used GPS to track small amplitude wobble over a few months. They correlated the wobble with weather and oceanic events.

Probably a nice piece of work. The paper appears Geophysical Research Letters on the 1st. You can BET several investigators will be recreating the experiment and looking for correlations again in the first half of 2012. . . .


So yeah, I bet buildings do make a difference, but compare them to mountains, oceans, etc. Gonna be really hard to make much difference in the direction of Earth's angular momentum with our feeble activities.

Answer 5

in theory yes objects have an effect on the earth
compare the mass of the planet to any building you want the earth wins plus there are tall buildings on the other side of the world too

Answer 6

If your referring to influencing the center of mass of the planet, then such expressions as "a fart in a blizzard" comes to mind. In that with the redistribution surface mass, we are affecting the CM but only on the order of angstroms.

Much more importantly, we are unbalancing the ecosystem and other natural cycles. Greatly affecting the atmospheric properties (green house gas compositions, and ozone depletion), natural habitat destruction, and pollution in many forms for example making the rain acidic.

Tall buildings are actually creating habitats for certain bird species.

Answer 7

I think we already have tilted that direction with all the adverse
things have have done the little blue marble. It is slowly being
desolved by our un greeness to mother earth.

Answer 8

our buildings are a bit shorter than mountains, and not made of solid rock. it will be a long while before we can build something that affects earth gravity.

Answer 9

mother earth?