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The wolf never eats corpses, neither of animals nor of people; it spends its entire life with one partner, it does not mate with its mother or sister; it is a monogamous animal, it does not cheat. If a partner dies, the wolf remains alone; it knows its young well: it is the only animal that helps its parents after a deep old age and brings them food.

When you kill a wolf, it looks you in the eyes until its soul leaves it; it is 25% smarter than the dog and it is the only animal that does not obey training, they say. Wolves think, dream, make plans, communicate with each other intelligently and are more like us than any other living being

 

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The world's largest dam that affects the Earth's rotation

THREE GORGES DAM

Do you believe that China's Three Gorges Dam has increased the length of the day by about 0.06 microseconds

Yes, it's true.

This is the world's largest dam, belonging to the Three Gorges Hydropower Plant, built on the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, China, the world's third longest river.
The world's largest hydroelectric power plant in terms of total capacity, its maximum capacity is 22,500 megawatts.

This dam, which is located 175 meters above sea level and 91 meters above the Yangtze River, is about 2,335 meters long and 115 meters wide, spanning an area of 1,045 square kilometers. .
The reservoir contains 39.3 cubic kilometers of water, which is said to weigh more than 39 trillion kilograms (42 billion tons).

The addition or subtraction of such a large amount of mass affects the Earth's rotation due to a phenomenon called the 'Moment of Inertia'.
Thus, raising 39 trillion kilograms of water 175 meters above sea level would increase the Earth's moment of inertia, thereby slowing its rotation. However, the effect would be extremely small.

As NASA scientists have calculated, such a mass shift would increase the length of the day by only 0.06 microseconds, and the Earth would become slightly rounder in the middle and flatter at the top. It would also change the position of the poles by about two centimeters.