Dec 16 2009What If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn (Spoiler: It Would Be Freakin' Sweet, That's What)

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halo. just sayin'

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Al - http://funbars.blogspot.com/

It's amazing to think of how science and religion would have evolved differently if our planet had rings. You would have been able to discern that the earth was round earlier just due to the fact of locale and curvature.

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Technically the Earth does have rings.... they are just man made. They are satellites and other space debris, and they will play a part in the 2012 Mayan Prophecy...... just sayin
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/11/spanish_space_hotel_still_a_go.php#comment-163468

I agree kyphur;

I think architecture would be vastly different in all those pictures as well. Let alone all major forms of art, etc. Kind of neat to think about. My thanks to the creator of that video.

I think our hard-earned tax dollars should go towards buyin' this planet some sweet rings.

I have a master plan to destroy the moon and use the resulting debris to get this whole ring thing started. Who's in?

@12

NO! NO! The moon is very much needed. The world would be a catastrophy without the moon. WE NEED THAT GOD DAMN MOON.

Lets blow up the moon so we can have rings!!!!! We dont need no stinkin moon!!

@13
When the time comes you had better stay out of my way!

@15

WE WILL DO BATTLE ATOP YOUR MOON BALSTING LASER!

I WILL SHOUT "NO PEWS WILL BEFALL THE MOON THIS DAY"

AND WE SHALL DRAW OUR BLADES AND FIGHT TO THE DEATH UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE FULL MOON!!

YOU MAY KILL ME BUT AHUNDRED MORE SHALL SPRING UP IN MY PLACE. MY LAST WORLDS SHALL BE "The.... moon... chunks... will fall into a.... decaying orbit.... and kill us.... allllllllllll......"

Stories shall be told of our titanic throw down.

Let's ask O-BAMA to stop spending all the money in the mid-east (They have
been fighting for thousands of years and we ain't going to fix it) and spend the
money saved on getting NASA to build us some Rings!!!!!

Me votes for rings (not at the cost of the Moon, though)
Meeeeeeeeeee waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaants riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiings :P

Let's blow up some old fashioned satelites1 *_* alos! every single piece of junk in our garage! go! go away my dear fututre rings! *_*

@13

That's no moon...

No doubt it would have made for some interesting lunar eclipses, what with the extra shadows and all...

Also would have resulted in different animal behaviors too, since the rings would light up the night sky for most of the night, as well as having screwed things up for earth-based astronomy.

But they would have looked awesome. :)

If the Earth had rings the astronomers would have to rename it.

They've already picked a name: Urassole

(the roman god of taint'd love)

mann got me all jealous now :(

looks like i'm movin to Saturn WHO'S WITH ME

Well at the rate humanity is going, it would be nothing other than a giant cock-ring.

Srsly, the Earth had beautiful rings for awhile, when the moon was coalescing. And then we had a lumpy ring with an embedded moon cloud, and then a glowing red-hot moon.

And now she's older and whiter, but still as lovely as ever.

Luna: beautiful in all her phases and ages.

@20 - thanks, laughed out loud

What I found fascinating is the fact that there would be frequent times during the month when the ring's shadow would plunge a wide swath of land into night. A much longer lasting lunar eclipse.

If we ever have enough carbon to build a diamond bridge station around the planet, it wouldn't look a whole lot different than this... thinner, but still shiny.

Why is it the theme music to Blood Money?

@29: I dunno, why was this classic piece of masterful music wasted on such a thing as the theme music to Blood Money?

This is one building project from Obama I would approve.

Oddly, enough it reminds me of Kaitain from Dune....

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Dune_Movie_Kaitain.jpg

We'd have to give up a lot of technology for the rings, with them in place I imagine geosynchronous satellites would be difficult to launch... And we wouldn't be able to have our current cell phones... I like my cell phone! don't take it away! ;_;

it's a super rainbow

@ 25

Wow! Didn't know you have such a romantic side.......u sure your wife didn't beat that out of you?...........just saying.

very cool video. thanks for posting it.

F* the ring, i want HALO around the earth!

Oo and a Plasma Cannon.. PEW PEW

Cool.

This reminds me of when I was watching "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grade?r" yesterday. The asian woman guessed that planet earth had the largest ring structure in our solar system. What a dummy!!! No wonder why NASA doesn't employ females.

Pfft. Anything looks awe-inspiring and graceful when set to Ave Maria. Srsly. You could set two girls one cup to that and it would make you cry. More. While you vomited. And masturbated. You're one sick fuck, you know that?

So would some cities that lie in the shadow of the rings be in 24 hr nightfall at certain points in the year?

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET, dude I'm so with you on living on Saturn, it'd be f-in SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET. No homo.

im writing from ecuador and according to the video, we wouldn´t see more than a line, if we had rings