what would happen if the earth got too heavy?

Question

with over population and everything?

Answer 1

That is not possible. Everything that grows on Earth takes vitamins and minerals from other things. All organisms on Earth and even things that aren't alive are in a consant stade of trading. For a person to get obese or gain muscle, what has to happen? They need to eat food. If you want to build a house, what do you do? You use up lumber and steel. The only way to make the Earth heavier is to bring in another element, say a comet. Even a comet the size of Texas (the one theorized to have landed Billions of years ago, creating the Gulf of Mexico) is not enough to really affect the overall weight of the Earth all that much. BUT if by some far off change, the Earth did get MUCH MUCH heavier, then it would slip out of its orbit and be hurled into outer space before striking some other heavenly body.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Overpopulation would not make the earth heavier, any more than manufacturing more cars would. Every atom in every cell of a new human being was already on the earth before it became part of a human being. Likewise every atom that makes up a car. The only way the earth can get heavier is by meteorites and other space junk falling onto it, and that amount is negligible compared to the mass of the earth.

Answer 3

The weight/mass of the earth only increases by the minute amount of interstellar mass which makes it to earth. Population comes from the earth and feeds from the earth's biomass. Same with buildings. We mine the ore, smelt it into steel, and build. Different shape but same weight.
If it were possible for the weight to increase significantly, the earth would be drawn closer/fall closer to the sun because there would be a greater gravitational mass for the sun to grab.

Answer 4

People, animals, buildings etc are all made from matter that was already existing in some form already here on the earth. The only way the earth could get "heavier" is with the introduction of massive amounts of alien material (asteroid or planetoid impact) . If that happens, chances are we will all be dead and no one will be around to remember you asked this ridiculous question.

Answer 5

nicely the income isn't very substantial to the earth's mass. yet whilst the earth became to get heavier it would influence many things. First we don't crash into the sunlight because of the fact we've a undeniable velocity, if purely our mass extra beneficial without our velocity increasing we'd get closer to the sunlight. The moon might additionally get closer because of the fact our gravitational pull might improve. watching the mass gained the effects could nicely be extra or much less substantial. yet meteors crashing into earth are not a huge situation now because of the fact if for some reason the earth grew to strengthen into heavier we'd purely could desire to deliver some mass into area.

Answer 6

what u meant 'heavy'? actually earth has no heavy, because 'heavy'=acceleration of gravity x mass, so earth has no 'heavy', and the mass of earth is fix already, it cannot become more higher mass unless got something from the universal or other planet get on to our earth.

Answer 7

the earth is a closed system. It's total mass is (for all intensive purposes) not changing. It's part of the Law of Conservation of Mass.

More people on the planet means less of the other mass of the planet.

don't sweat it.

Answer 8

Everything on the Earth cannot get heavier than it already is, unless something from somewhere else in the universe landed (or crashed) in it.

Answer 9

This is totally impossible!!!! If nothing has happened thus far, then nothing will happen later. The world is created the way it is for a reason. Don't worry about it!!! Have a good day.

Answer 10

That not goin happen, when everyone gets their nuclear weapons, there will be a big world war & everyone left will start again.