(January 24, 2017 at 3:24 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Take it "literally". Mountains increase earth's mass. If they don't exist, earth's mass would decrease. Disturb the mass, and you'll disturb the orbit of the planet.
Wait!
Did you really say this?!
Mountains increase Earth's mass?!!?!!?!!!!
Do you accept that the Earth is a planet, roughly shaped like a sphere, travelling through the vacuum of space?
Where does mass come from to increase Earth's? (Meteors are all I can see)
Barring the occasional rocket and probe that humans send out, how does mass leave the Earth?