What if Earth grew 1cm every second?

xkcd's What If?

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How long would it take for people to notice their weight gain if the mean radius of the world increased by 1 cm every second? (Assuming the average composition of rock were maintained)

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Randall Munroe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers What If? 2, How To, What If?, and Thing Explainer; the science question-and-answer blog What If?; and the popular web comic xkcd (https://xkcd.com). A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time.

Henry Reich is the creator of MinutePhysics and executive producer of MinuteEarth and MinuteFood and founder of Neptune Studios LLC (the parent company for all three youtube channels).

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