Let's See YOU Do It!

If you load a ship too heavily on one side, she will list (and maybe sink). If you load a plane too heavily on one side, she will roll (and maybe crash and burn). Load masters are vital because someone really has to know what he is doing when it comes time to set weights & balances.

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

If you load a planet too heavily on one side, she will wobble (and maybe fly apart), not to mention your orbital trajectories won't stay where you set them. When He made the earth (and the other planets) God had to balance the hills so it would spin properly and stay spinning properly. In case you didn't notice, the hills are not all the same size, and not all evenly spaced.

. . . now that's quite a piece of work!