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Our planet actually gets roughly 50,000 tonnes lighter every year. (We gain 40,000t from meteors but also lose about 90,000t of hydrogen.) https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sept-1-2018-gene-editing-in-dogs-wildfire-prediction-zika-fizzles-and-more-1.4804892/is-earth-getting-heavier-or-lighter-1.4804900
Don't forget to account for all the helium leaking out of balloons. That's part of the reason the earth gets lighter too.
And every time they manufacture a Bic, the world gets a little lighter.
Yeah, and when you burn that fuel it gets hotter, and that makes it a little lighter too.