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		owenversteeg 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happe... Obviously we can, global groundwater depletion is very hard to estimate but estimates range from 20-300 km3/year (this paper uses a figure of 126.) Global desalination production is around 35 km3/year and growing rapidly. 1km3 water =1 gigaton = 1B m3 water.

pivo 6 months ago [–]

The op was referring to the highly ungrammatical sentence, "Can we fix it back", not the possibility of fixing the tilt.

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