Would it really be a net negative though? Earth constantly has things burning up in the atmosphere. It turns into dust, gas and energy but it still is added.
Also long term you shouldn’t have a negative change in mass. That would be against entropy
Simple Answer: Yes.
Everytime we launch something into space the mass of Earth itself decreases by that amount. There is also energy trade off with the mass stealing a bit of earth’s momentum/energy for it to continue as well.
Overall, we’re talking about absolutely micro, if not smaller changes in mass and energy and it ultimately has zero affect on anything.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Earth only really loses it if it reaches escape velocity, otherwise it’s still part of our gravity well… So basically, a handful of probes…