{"id":213061,"date":"2025-05-02T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/china-disrupts-earths-rotation-nasa-confirms-massive-project-is-slowing-the-planet-with-unprecedented-global-consequences"},"modified":"2025-05-02T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:06:10","slug":"china-disrupts-earths-rotation-nasa-confirms-massive-project-is-slowing-the-planet-with-unprecedented-global-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/china-disrupts-earths-rotation-nasa-confirms-massive-project-is-slowing-the-planet-with-unprecedented-global-consequences","title":{"rendered":"\u201cChina Disrupts Earth\u2019s Rotation\u201d: NASA Confirms Massive Project Is Slowing the Planet With Unprecedented Global Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-disrupts-earths-rotation-nasa-confirms-massive-project-is-slowing-the-planet-with-unprecedented-global-consequences.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN A NUTSHELL \ud83c\udf0d The Three Gorges Dam in China is the largest hydroelectric dam globally, symbolizing China\u2019s engineering prowess. \ud83d\udd0d NASA suggests that the dam\u2019s massive water displacement might influence Earth\u2019s rotation, affecting the planet\u2019s natural balance. \ud83d\udca7 The dam\u2019s reservoir, when full, could lengthen the day by 0.06 microseconds and alter Earth\u2019s shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN A NUTSHELL \ud83c\udf0d The Three Gorges Dam in China is the largest hydroelectric dam globally, symbolizing China\u2019s engineering prowess. \ud83d\udd0d NASA suggests that the dam\u2019s massive water displacement might influence Earth\u2019s rotation, affecting the planet\u2019s natural balance. \ud83d\udca7 The dam\u2019s reservoir, when full, could lengthen the day by 0.06 microseconds and alter Earth\u2019s shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}