>>11244275You act like atmosphere is not also being generated.
The Earth gains approximately 40,000 metric tones of dust every year from space and loses approximately 50,000 metric tons due to atmospheric dissipation back into space. Some of that dust from space will break down and form new atmosphere as the Earth also sheds material from the surface into the atmosphere, everything from dust particles breaking down into elemental parts when exposed to high energy solar radiation over long periods of time to Helium generated from the breakdown of nuclear elements such as Uranium 238 through Alpha decay.
So the Earth is mostly in balance with an estimated 10,000 metric tons of material lost to space each year, or about .000000000000001% of its total mass each year.
It will take trillions upon trillions of years to lose a significant amount of material into space, however the amount lost is rather a lot compared to say, the size of a human being. 10,000 metric tons is a lot until you realize the Earth is approximately 6 Sextillion tons of matter.
