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What if Earth grew 1cm every second? (www.youtube.com)
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Original static webpage version: https://what-if.xkcd.com/67/

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Despite the end result being the death of everything within a single lifespan and the eventual destruction of the entire Earth in the new term future, I was surprised it would not be more immediately destructive. 1 cm/s sure sounded like a pretty fast expansion.