What Earth Would Look Like With Rings Like Saturn

[Cheese]

May not be perfect, but a cool idea. Ave Maria notwithstanding:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoz5Q...layer_embedded

[Zevo]

Cool, but would you see them curve like that or would they appear to be straight because of the distances involved.

[Coach]

pretty cool. wouldnt there be areas of the world in the shadow of them for months at a time?

[Joborule]

Now I want a ring around the Earth. That would be pretty badass.

[worth]

Originally Posted by Joborule

Now I want a ring around the Earth. That would be pretty badass.

Blow up the moon.

[You Need a Thneed]

The rings at night would definitely look amazing.

[Acey]

Originally Posted by MattyC

pretty cool. wouldnt there be areas of the world in the shadow of them for months at a time?

That's what I was thinking. Depends on how permeable the rings are to sunlight, I guess.

[You Need a Thneed]

I don't think the rings would be densely packed enough to create widespread shadows. I think the effect would be similar to those bus windows with the little black dots on them, that you don't even notice until you look closely.

[Hack&Lube]

We would have had many more crazy awesome mythologies and religions in human history if Earth had had rings.

[HOOT]

I'd be curious how this would effect satellite, or if they would even be possible with a ring around Earth like that.

[Northendzone]

the video did not touch on how the rings would effect the Flames - anyone have any computer modelling availible?

[HPLovecraft]

Ave asteroid belt?

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Northendzone

the video did not touch on how the rings would effect the Flames - anyone have any computer modelling availible?

debris would fall into the atmosphere striking the hospital the day that Alex Burrows was born and therefore halting his existence. I know I would be a happier person

[Mike F]

Here's what the earth would look like with a koi fish tattoo:

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by HOOT

I'd be curious how this would effect satellite, or if they would even be possible with a ring around Earth like that.

Exactly, looks nice but there goes television.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Mike F

Here's what the earth would look like with a koi fish tattoo:

I wonder what the earth would look like if it was really ffffuuuuuukin pissed off.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Exactly, looks nice but there goes television.

Not just television but think about all the technologies that would probably be effected by this, if not getting destroyed, at least interfering with the signal.

I don't know much about how that stuff works so I don't know for sure if it would be effecting but I would have to assume it would mess things up a bit.

[Knut]

I think for the rings to exist there would need to be much higher gravity on earth... therefore we wouldnt exist or would all be Nigel Dawes sized.

[SebC]

Rings would have probably affected the course of evolution. Humans might not even be here if Earth had rings.

[drewboy12]

I think the rings are only a few feet thick and allow light to travel through, so I don't think it would create shade, or interrupt radio signals..

But I am not an astro physicist or anything, so I really have no flipping idea....

Anyway kinda cool pics of the cities with the rings in the sky...