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AMONG the writings of those who love to speculate on the future of our planet there is probably somewhere (though we have not had time to discover it) an essay on the cosmical changes which man will be able to produce in the earth. The data for solving this problem are striking. In a few centuries man has acquired all those powers over large and solid objects represented by his knowledge of explosives, and his use of steam. Multiply the centuries, and with them the history, by convenient figures (a familiar process in this kind of problem) and there is no reason why the earth's axis of rotation should not be shifted considerably by human agency.
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TURNER, H. Earth Tremors from Trains. Nature 41, 344–346 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041344d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/041344d0