What Earth Would Look Like With Rings Like Saturn

[rodgod82]

if earth had a ring like saturn there would be no complex life form because of the constant bombardement from the ring,you think its completly static ? lol

[D00mbr0s]

MALMÖ!!!!

[hooooookary]

*0*!!!

[MontaqV3]

this would help in csi investigations where they look at a photo and see that the ring in the sky is thin and they could pinpoint the killer's whereabouts

[CalciumCD]

@MontaqV3 Or see the reflection of the killer on the rings after a few thousand enhancements and magnifications

[Slashy0021]

earth did have a rind about 1,000,000 years ago

[Ezzequiel2517]

@Slashy0021 Pics, or it didn't happen! =D

[SouthBlaster]

Ничего, еще пару сотен лет "фобосовгрунтов" и будут кольца.

[LAVENDERACGIRL]

If Earth had rings, this video would be about if Earth DIDN'T have rings....

[keyokeyo59]

I love this music sooo relaxing

[0heyjc]

Looks stunningly interesting. Tbh I don't think it would have that much of an impact on religion and myths. Think it would pretty much compare to how it was with the moon and the sun itself, they would be worshiped like gods by some to some point, and then science would take care of the rest.

It could indeed have a huge impact on navigation though.

[Scissorify]

Niiice !!! :D but where would the satelite go ? :D

[Skarloe]

Ugh... ruins the skyline XD

[Toporionn]

DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY!

[budgielover4life]

Wouldn't shit from our rings be flying at us though?

[flamevulture17]

What about the south pole? You wouldn't be able to see them.

[MarkArandjus]

Well made sir, well made!

[calciferILY]

It only looks like solid rings on pictures of Saturn because we are so far away, so wouldn't it actually look like lots of tiny moons in the sky? Or would we be too far away to see it in such detail?

[DiscusGliding]

@calciferILY

The rings are made of countless small particles, ranging in size from micrometers to meters. If Earth had rings like Saturn, we wouldn't be able to see it were individual particles with the naked eye.

[TheGmodkilla]

it is so beautiful

[RGA54ETYHA5YH]

saturn is just showing off with his rings

[AStealA8]

and now for the real question. How the fuck do we get some rings????

[HelloThere1074]

@AStealA8 we get the moon to explode

[ZockiZocki]

it looks just magical :)

[mcxdtv]

its ok lebron, earth doesn't have any rings either.

[AlexMano1010]

I wonder what effect this would have on our climate. Interesting to think about. Would it cool our Earth to some degree? I think it would.

[ZetaFuzzMachine]

@AlexMano1010 COOL! I was just about to post that this was the solution to global warming. But I see someone was quiker than me.

[codePhreak]

it would have made navigation much easier.

[Felamine]

@codePhreak The Americas, Australia and lot of island territories would probably have been discovered much sooner than they were. Imagine North America being discovered and colonised at the time of the Roman Empire.

[pieceofnopuzzle]

what music please?

[TheSwearingChef]

@pieceofnopuzzle

Look in the description bobo.

[Ryat51]

Apparently, we did have rings for a few million years during the formation of the moon. They decided to clump together a while after the impact and make a moon.

[TheBlobster1212]

@Ryat51 Yes,Thea..If the moon just didn't born..We'll probably keep the Rings.

[sm4096]

Saturn's rings are just the remnants of space junk from when the inhabitants of Saturn destroyed the surface of their planet and all of their satellites in a massive apocalypse. 

[BkAesthetics]

We should build one

[DontFearGrim]

say what you will about the rings fucking up gravity or the tides. it would be nice looking at the rings during the day.

[yellowl1]

@DontFearGrim Oh, of course, cities would flood, millions would die, but that's okay, because it would look pretty.

[DontFearGrim]

@yellowl1 but then we could live like the jetsons.

[yellowl1]

@DontFearGrim That doesn't even make sense, the jetsons are from the future, how would rocks orbiting the earth effect technology?

[DontFearGrim]

@yellowl1 just sarcasm buddy. calm down.

[TheNdfGraphics]

Halo.

[prabhbhambra13]

Matty sent me

[englishmanriver]

But what does it mean?

[AJ14141414141414]

One ring, to rule them all.

[yellowl1]

That would fuck the tides up.

[wowthungsten]

I don't imagine it would be a whole hell of a lot of fun trying to run satellites in a system like that. Chunk of ice the size of a fist, traveling at 5km/sec would put an abrupt end to that piece of high-tech. The insurance costs would be hilarious :-).

[Gregorick]

imagine the effects rings would have had on myth and religion

[paulvglendale]

@Gregorick Genesis 7:11 says during Noah's flood, the "windows of heaven" were opened. In those days, to open windows you opened shutters; there was no glass. So the "windows of heaven" were probably Saturn-like rings. When they vanished, Noah could see more stars. This is the effect on religion.

[Rmg12]

@paulvglendale well no, because at the time genesis was written, humans would be around (obviously), the rings around earth (if any existed) will have only been in the early times of earth, far before life developed

[zipthepinhead]

@Gregorick I imagine among many other things, people might have thought it was a road or ladder to Heaven, or where he gods live, and many an explorer would have set out across the world to find the point where it reaches the ground. Maybe they would have thought it was a world unto itself, an elevated land, made of silver where mythical figures lived. Maybe a paint streak left by an artistic deity. There are so many possibilities what they would have come up with.

[shadowreaper2011]

2:22 needs a to be where leprechauns come from. Pot of gold son. pot of gold

[mr94hitman]

You religious nuts would of came up with the most absurd excuse for them.

[nomadicsky]

Who is singing that ? Its the most beautiful version I've ever heard.

[rivenoak]

@nomadicsky

"SONG- Schubert's Ave Maria, sung by Barbara Bonney"

[loopycraig]

I want rings lol

[smokeyassassin]

couldn't happen, the rings are mostly ice and would be blown away from the earth at a greater rate that from saturn as earth is much closer to the sun,

They would also need several small moons to act as the ring boundry sheapards, and an ice moon to resupply the rings, the earth probably did have rings at one point but they would have been fleeting lasting meer decades before vanishing completely

[rab3072]

ahhh the Hitman music :)

[taw0013]

Ocean navigation would probably benefit from having equatorial rings. Space travel would be more difficult but also easier with rings. The rings would be a collision hazard, but also provide raw material that can be utilized by astronauts.

[KryptnGaming]

WEED WOULD BE LEGAL. And people wouldn't make shitty "X dislikes do Y" comments for thumbs ups.

[ThePelvi]

Wouldn't it suck if you lived in the shadow of the rings?

[whitelancer64]

@ThePelvi the earth has a tilt (the same tilt that gives us seasons), so no one spot would be in darkness all year. a bigger problem would be the net cooling effect from the rings. the earth would be significantly colder thanks the the shadow of the rings. on the plus side, rings are inherently unstable, meaning they would only last a few million years at best, before losing enough energy to fall down to earth.

[mikelad777]

@ThePelvi The shadows positions would move, assuming the rings and earth aren't lined up exactly with the Sun, which they aren't.

[gggreggg]

this is one of my favorite youtube vids......

[bailywolf]

How dense would the ring objects need to be to account for the visual effects seen in this vid?

[nguyenminh1]

the ring should be blue bs of the reflection of the Earth

[whitelancer64]

@nguyenminh1 that makes no sense at all. the rings would have their own color (the color of the material they are made of), they do not reflect the color of the host planet.

[nguyenminh1]

@whitelancer64 Have you ever seen the rings of Uranus ? It has a color of white , not yellow like Saturn's rings . That's because the color of Uranus itself is nearly white .

[danielalbarral]

the bigest problem is some pleaces have a full night season beacuse shadow of rings xD

[whitelancer64]

@danielalbarral it would not be dark enough to cause total night. it would be like having constant cloud cover, but you'd still have the brilliance of the sun in the sky.

[Th3RedX]

I would've liked to see interpretations of places under semi-permanent Ring Shadow, based on the position of the sun the Ring would cast a shadow onto the earth. would that shadow be strong enough to put those areas into a faux night?

[whitelancer64]

@Th3RedX the tilt of the earth means that no one place would be under the shadow of the rings for an entire year.

[RoyaCanadianInfantry]

@whitelancer64 Not entirerly,the sunlight will still pass but not so much!

[KeepThemOut1]

It looks like a shitty rainbow that won't go away.

[Winner8501]

At the rate we keep polluting the Earth orbit, there is a chance we're going to have visible rings in a few hundred years time ;-) Nice video, very illustrative!

[DerpinWin]

Once it Earth's history, we had rings but then it this stupid rock in the ring had to collide with others and then the whole thing creating the Moon >:(

[neonaqua22]

@DerpinWin The moon now trolls us correct?

[DerpinWin]

@neonaqua22 Indeed but now that I looked at this a whole. The Moon is a savior troll. The rings look like they are just a "decoration" around the planet. The moon actually protected us from numerous asteroids resulting in its many craters. The ring cannot do such because it is not just one massive object, it is numerous small chunks of orbiting rock around the planet.

[whitelancer64]

@DerpinWin ring systems are not stable, they would last only a few million years at best

[PaintSlinger99]

thanks man

[jbw1124]

I wish we had rings....

[SereneiBE]

@jbw1124 You need to be fucking careful what you wish for. ya dumbfuck. I hope you would love the light pollution from them. Fuck you won't be able to see stars quite as clearly.

[GreatThunder1]

@SereneiBE Wow that's how you respond to his simple comment? Something is wrong with you..

[SereneiBE]

@GreatThunder1 Im not a wistful thinker that's as retarded as yourself that's it.

GROW THE FUCK UP

[federalduckk]

@SereneiBE lol. wow. Chillax, babes. Untwist your panties, it's a hypothetical situation.

[wilosaur]

@SereneiBE u mad

[ArtQuakedoom95x4]

@jbw1124 but we would have problems with the north and south pole, and after millions of years the rings would fall on earth 'cause they are basically failed moons, the rocks were too close to the earth so they would never become a moon, and by staying too close of the planet they would fall someday, this will happen with saturn too.

[jbw1124]

@ArtQuakedoom95x4 what i am saying is that the view would be beautiful, like a giant rainbow...everyday.

[ArtQuakedoom95x4]

@jbw1124 well, i agree on that.

[jason4themoney]

Nice!! That would be pretty interesting

[rafaelgomez121]

This video makes me wish we had rings around our planet.

[Wgordon11]

I love your imagination, keep up the good work.

[evilr32]

With this you'd always know which way is North :P or South if your in the Northern Hemi. And this look much cooler than rainbows

[Chiisana00]

And then certain places would stay dark for at least 1/4 of the season?

[ATADSP]

@Chiisana00 Less dark and more shadowed. Like standing under a tree but all the time. It wouldn't be night time level darkness.

[MrSarcasm2]

I just had a sciencegasm.

[stripes5150]

I'm glad we don't have rings....

It would be like having chemtrails in the sky all the time...

Oh, wait a minute...

[MusicLover2880]

I wish that the Earth could have rings even if its a litle bit scary but its also beutiful to watch lol for some countries will be "Forever rainbow" because the rings from NYC look like a raibow

[MegaSpume]

For some reason I find it disturbing that someone would waste their time doing this.

[Superstarseven]

@MegaSpume Not everyone is going to feed hungry children in Third world countries, why can't someone do something interesting like this without being criticized for not doing something more constructive?

[django589]

WTF IS UP W/ MALMO SWEDEN

[Arghira]

This is wrong ..I tell you this is WRONG !!!

[DREQON2005]

THAT WOULD BE COOL AS HELL AT NIGHT

[TheNishwa]

It's kinda cool with the ring.

[missBmay]

we KNOW this is a physical impossibility on Earth but the IDEA is gorgeous, it's a 'what if' video so stop pointing out the obvious and enjoy it :P

[Anderspirit]

seria complicado por satélites em órbita.

[HighscoreBoy]

the earth probably had rings before, after the moon crashed into it.

[ReddVision]

We Would Look BEAST!

[clipmaster30001]

if earth had a ring we would all die

[Ronysporeman1122]

@clipmaster30001 no we wont ok then tell me how if yes

[clipmaster30001]

@Ronysporeman1122 earths gravity would pull down those rocks, the ring isnt a misty fog its a bunch of rocks, we would smashed like the moon

[Ronysporeman1122]

@clipmaster30001 o ok i got you

[lokaissogood]

@clipmaster30001 HAHA the rings are made up of dust and ice particles not huge rocks and even if it larger rocks it wouldnt matter because the earths atmosphere would completely take care of a rock or even a boulder

upon re-entry

[wdragon92190]

@clipmaster30001 here is a good question. Saturn has many times the gravitational pull of earth. why doesnt Saturn pull in the rocks? what makes earth different?

[clipmaster30001]

@wdragon92190 actually Saturn doesnt have a gravity many times more than earth, its around 10.4,m/2 earth is 9.8m/s, compare Saturn size to earth and there you have it. i tiny planet like earth would in ratio pull all the rocks and dust onto it self

[twankism]

WOW! 

[ScorpiusIncorruptus]

I think my perception is warped for the day...wow.

[mudprimitive]

Can you do a unicorn video next?

[katiezpm]

@mudprimitive i second that motion. UNICORNS!

[zzzlt]

how about north pole and south pole /?

[R1BC4G3]

@zzzlt you probably wouldn't see it

[BattlefieldHigh]

everytime i think of space and how dark it is it makes me feel lonely like were the only living things on a planet

[danielep2]

Beautiful!

[zherui]

if we fire enough space debris up there we could theoretically get a ring up there. BRING ON THE FLOATING ISLAND OF SEWAGE!

[manish41711]

bs video, imo, only a song & superimpositions

[ppritch99]

@manish41711 let's see you do better.

[LilDrummerBoy74]

@manish41711 Well its obviously superimposed onto the pictures. Its a hypothetical video, what it would look like IF we had a ring system. If you dont like it dont watch it.

[zesrg3]

cool! one way to do that is to destroy the moon to pieces.

[y8art105]

Imagine a rainbow covered up the ring xD, it would look so cool.

[b0w5er]

What? No view from Britain? :(

[maebeach]

@b0w5er

due to the weather in britain, it's unlikely that you could see it, so he didn't bother. D

[moruszz]

amazing mate great job



[DocUnsane]

wouldnt the ring block a lot of the sun, resulting in a much colder planet

[XwawawaX344]

@DocUnsane yeah, nobody would give a fuck about the global warming then

[itchias4]

Actually the Earth had once rings when Teia and Earth crashed together like 4000 millions of years before, they were even more amazing than Saturn's rings with red rings of the lava, but they turned into our moon. Well still this is beutiful.

[tonysanthedarkstar]

@itchias4 The only way to make the ring "stay a ring" would be that Earth had lots of other moon before its collision with Theia so the dust and rock etc would be inside the moons' orbit and couldn't fuse to create a moon... Like saturn or jupiter

[tonysanthedarkstar]

@itchias4 Moreover, the rings orbit around the gas giant planets and i'm not sure a telluric planet could own such rings.

[itchias4]

@tonysanthedarkstar Correct, and some astronomers think that Pluto could have rings, but we are not sure about that.

[whitelancer64]

@tonysanthedarkstar anything with a significant gravitational pull is able to form a ring. if any moon orbiting such a body comes within its Roche limit it will be ripped apart and form a ring.

[tonysanthedarkstar]

@whitelancer64 It would be nice to see

[frostek]

@itchias4 - This is a hypothesis. It's not confirmed.

[itchias4]

@frostek No really? (sarcasm)

[bananabanjo]

i have been wondering and imaginging about this very thing for months!!! so affirmed to see someone has put their energies into creating this for all to grok.

[zutske]

Astronomers would be *so* unhappy, with the permanent light pollution.

[ExperimentExperience]

@zutske hey look, someone who gets it.

[russfern]

if earth had rings that would surely affect our aviation routes

[dumbiswhattheycallme]

Agent 47's planet had rings.

[ericfontainejazz]

that would be awesome...especially at night since the rings will be bright from the sun's reflections.

[qiamify]

all the single planets, all the single planets, put your hands up!

[yourvidisbad101]

What is the song name???

[klayman2]

@yourvidisbad101 how about you read the description...

[lynx655]

Winter would be much colder, because the sun would be behid the ring all day for months, and it would scatter a lot of light before it reaches earth.

The moon would have to go too, since it would sweep out the belt quite fast. The aforementioned paper says that at this distance even the sun is strong enough a perturbation to strip us of a ring system given enough time. Not to mention solar wind.

So it would be constantly raining down on us or escaping away. Or going on other trajectories.

[leandar]

@lynx655 What about if there were shepherd moons for the ring system?

[lynx655]

@leandar I think we are still too light and close to the sun.

[leandar]

@lynx655 For Saturn type rings you're probably right. However, Uranus type rings might be more of a possibility. If they were just of a brighter material so we could tell they were there, of course...

[lynx655]

@leandar Well, you may be right, as I said as well, the best way would be blowing the Moon to bits. And getting it on a smaller orbit as well. :D

[vhiechava]

so beautiful,but lil creepy :'( i dont want it. hahaaa

[OldSchoolSkill]

Really fascinating and well done.

[yourvidisbad101]

what ios the name of this song??

[xdudeyourcool]

never need a compass again.

[RedwoodStarkey]

55 people live on Saturn and want to keep all the rings for themselves..

[UnknownAngeI]

Oh god no.... Ring will probably kill us D: You're right a place will definately experience nighttime everyday!! And the light reflected like a moon? 24 hours of sun I would say, there are soo many moons!! D: Meteor! take cover, you might live today and die tomorrow.. beside there are no north and south pole if this exist, magnetic field won't work no more D: It's the apocalypse!!

[whitelancer64]

@UnknownAngeI a ring system would have no effect on our magnetic field.

[demmylowther]

I could see this would be a problem for us because any in coming meteor would slam into the rings causing some of it to break off sending towards earth,causing major problems.

[LithiumHammer]

The darkened spots on Earth would be fucking BADASS to live in

[jdiaz2809]

cool video, loved the song

[bboychance]

how about a ring round your asshole?

[bboychance]

You want rings around your planet? you want EVERY fuckin satellite knocked out by big ass meteorites? you want giant rocks of ice and debris crashing into Earth constantly??? THINK ABOUT IT !!!

[lewisisdaman]

i pretty sure the earth did have rings at one point b4 all that orbiting matter clumped together and made the moon

[lisa2303cba]

EARTH

Y DON'T YOU HAVE RINGS?

[Ajcheeta]

@lisa2303cba *Y U NO HAVE RINGS?

[ProjectVRD]

@lisa2303cba Earth doesn't have rings because they condensed into the moon. Without the Moon tugging on the oceans, mixing the nutrients within the rocks on the miles long tides of the past, there would be no life on this planet.

For that, I am happy their are no rings around Earth. Fecking beautiful if it did though!

[darlthris]

@ProjectVRD then again were gonna get pelted by everyday of rocks if we had rings, or w/e the ring contained in them