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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The filling of large hydro-electric dams slows the rotation of the Earth by a measurable amount.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

First pass googling this returns very low information quality. I suspect "calculable" is more more like it than "measurable" but would love to see a source where measurements had been made that showed this effect greater than standard error.