The mass of the Earth is approximately 6 x 1024 kg, and the addition of human population mass does not significantly impact this figure. Humans, composed of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen, ultimately return to the Earth upon death, meaning they do not contribute to a net increase in mass. The primary sources of mass addition to Earth include cosmic rays, meteorites, and occasional asteroids, while the planet loses some mass through atmospheric escape. Even with a global population of 6 billion, the mass added annually would take trillions of years to double the Earth's mass.
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Generally, Genesis is not known as a reliable scientific source, but: "for dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" pretty well answers that question.jmb88korean said:I was just curious about this. Are humans counted in the mass of the Earth? If so as the population increases does the mass of the Earth also increase? I think it wouldn't due to humans technecally being made from the Earth. We are carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen from the Earth so when we die we return to the Earth.
And a fair bit of water from cometsAndrew Mason said:The only mass being added to the Earth is from cosmic rays, meteorites, occasional meteors and once every few million years the odd asteroid.