@settazteca the material of the rings would be in orbit. each rock in it's own orbit. once it all settled in, little would be coming out of the rings. The distance from the earth doesn't really matter if the material is in a stable orbit. The forming period would be a problem, but the size of the rocks would be small enough to burn up first.
Amazing fantasy. Winter would be more depressing though as the rings would cut down the sunlight and heat reaching the atmosphere....so much colderd darker winters for anyone not near the Equator....but if it was truly spectacular (especially after sunset or shortly before sunrise), I'd go with it.
This video should have shown us what it would look like when the rings were blocking out the light of the sun. Would it be like a solar eclipse? Would everything just get slightly darker because the rings aren't completely solid? Remember, this is something that would happen every day.
planetary rings are one of my favorite astronomical feature. and despite the earth looking dam cool with them, they would block a lot of light and would make agriculture a bit difficult if not impossible for most of the year.
As beautiful as it looks, if we DID have these rings, it might be where all our water would be - so we possibly may never have evolved :-(
Thankfully, though, we are here, on the Earth as it is and, what's more, we have this beauty in Saturn and other heavenly bodies to be marvelled by :-D
The Conspiracy is trying to popularize this concept so that you will accept their wild scheme to blow up excess Chinese in orbit to make the ring, so that the slight shadow will cool the Earth and allow the oil companies to keep selling you oil for hundreds of years! Resist! Revolt! No rings for oil!
Would the shadow cast from the ring on the sunny side of earth (shown@ 1:49) create a kind of semi permanent 'night belt' across that part of the planet?
@DJRU2 During either hemisphere's summer, the ring would cover up a portion of it in shadow near the equator, but during their respective winters, the shadow would be in the other hemisphere, and it would almost disappear in the middle of spring/fall
the most mysterious planet in our solar system.whats incredible about it is that many occult groups worship the planet to this day wich is strange because science supposedly knows alot about it its a gas planet and there is a hexagon in the middle of it wich is strange because its not a solid planet and the hexagon never moves. the hexagon is were they got the davidian star from.
"the hexagon is were they got the davidian star from." Yet more proof that theists are deluded and religious faith is just make-believe for mentally retarded adults. These feeble-minded wankers can make themselves believe any old crap and convince themselves it's true. The hexagon is already known to be an unusually stable storm formation, like Jupiter's great red spot, but Saturn's low density, less than that of water, gives it this shape. If you boil water you can see hexagonal shapes in it.
being to much of a skeptic is idiotic i belive you deprive yourself of things that can be true, but your some much of a skeptic you wouldnt know god if he was right in front of you you would come up with your own rationalitation for it i know people exactly like that.
"It's good to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out." Jacob Needleman. The road to self-delusion ignores reality checks. You're one of those asshats who likes to spook people with bullshit and say 'isn't it weird?' you probably fancy yourself as a modern-day mystical shaman. I know people like that.
Not to mention I wonder how our ancient cultures observing the rings would come up with crazy stories to explain them, our Bible and religions today might be slightly different don't ya think?...
If we keep on shooting all the crap into orbit as we have done for many years, this ring could become a reality. After the first collision of all our space junk, launching anything to anywhere would become impossible, but after a thousand years or so, the Earth would have rings. I guess.
The only thing this misses out on is the shadows cast on the earth and the how prolific & constant those shadows would be and the effect on the earth if that were to happen.
One thing is we wouldnt have a truely dark night coz the rings would be so bright. Go out into a field in a full moon and see how bright it is then imangine it a hunred time brighter. Also I think the earth would be hotter due to the heat bouncing back so maybe no ice ages. But in all I think the earth is too small to have rings?
the earth HAShad rings before, when the moon was being formed. so the earth COULD have rings if a bunch of relatively small objects flew towards the earth at the correct angle to orbit
It's only recently I've started not taking the moon for granted when I look at it. How empty the sky would be without it's presence, that makes me glad we still have our moon. I can imagine I would feel the same way about the rings.
Sadly, if earth did gain a ring system like this, it couldn't last long if it's made of mainly ice. Earth is 10 times closer to the sun than Saturn and therefore receives 100 times more sunlight, so I guess the rings may melt in just a few million years.
I don't think it would look anything like this... for one the ring is made up of rock and ice and with them constantly bumping into one another it wouldn't look as tapered.
Rings are cool, but my opinion Earth is better off without them. Earth is the only planet that has life, water, changing seasons. WAY better than anyother planets out there.
The earth does have a ring but its made of very fine dust that doesn't reflect much light but you can see it with IR. They've found Satern's got a bonkers massive one millions miles wide.
Also we have a ring of space junk and old sataliteS
@1lalaland Blowing up the Moon would make Dooms Day lol... billions of asteroids resulting from the explosion would crash into the Earth. We wouldn't be around to see our rings lol
for a monent earth had ring when like 4-5 billion years ago the eath collided with another planet and thy either fell back to earth or the formed the moon.
This was beautiful. Of all the countless planets in the universe, there must be amazing sights all throughout the universe, far beyond what we can imagine.
Imagine being a living sentient being orbiting a giant gas planet on a moon that orbits outside the vast ring system of that planet. From there you would see in your sky the rings, the giant planet, your home star and possibly 5 other moons just like your home moon.
"Well, the moon certainly would be a problem for the rings.
Can't have both, really."
Not like Saturn doesn't have 61 of them, or Jupiter 63, Uranus 27 and Neptune 13. In fact all the planets in our solar system that have rings also have way beyond the amount the moons we have. So what the hell are you talking about, really?
Yeah, the gravitational pull from Saturns moons are far less than the gravitational pull of Saturn. While in the Earth-Luna system the gravitational pull from Luna is non-trivial. The rings would probably be much less refined looking, at least.
The gravitational field of our moon would cause unbalance in any rings and cause the rocks to plummet and burn in the earth's atmosphere. Which likely is why we don't have any rings now.
So, relatively speaking, our moon's gravitational pull versus that of the earth's is too great to sustain a ring, is what the hell I'm talking about.
Slightly, yes. But then the particles would fall into their original stable satellite trajectory when the moon has passed. It's rather simple gravitational physics.
If the moon was smaller, was less dense or orbited much further away than it is now, perhaps. As it is, the moon has far too much influence for the earth's gravitational pull to sustain a ring. At least one that is large and close enough to be visible.
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The only dunce is people like you that do not mind there own business and get personal with people you do not know. Lets hope you or someone in your family gets a nasty illness or diseases and dies slowly.
It's too bad earth doesn't have rings. It surely would have been a sight that would have inspired poems, myths and romance much like the moon has for centuries.
Splendid, though I really wished the video had also shown the rings from the vantage of standing at various points within its shadow. Would there have been any refractive halos associated with the sun where the rings were thinner? And what would the countryside look like at the terminus between shadow and light?
Imagine if the earth always had rings. What would primitive peoples have thought of them? What kind on intersting myths and stroies would they have told?
Question I have is how would this affect the tides, would there be any gravitational effect felt or is it too insignificant. Also, in the pictures of the earth it showed a shadow, so the winter hemisphere would have a shadow across certain latitudes right which means 6 months darkness for certain cities? At least that what it looks like at 1:54 for example.
Very cool! Makes me wish we had rings so the night sky would be even more beautiful! Unfortunealy some stars would then be blocked, though, so there would be a significant price...hmm...
i live near cologne, germany. man that would be beauitful!!! we would be talking about the rings like we do with our moon today. wow, the rings look beautiful tonight!!
The rings would cast a gigantic shadow over a section of the earth on a day by day bases. While it wouldn't be a frozen tundra, it most certainly would create enough change in temperature to change the current jet streams dramatically. Not only air temperatures, but water temperatures as well. The hot and cold areas on the planet would most certainly be different, and if the rings reflected light heated up other parts of the globe, I would imagine our weather patterns would be quite violent.
Then there is the physical side of things, I am sure rocks from the ring fall into the atmosphere on a constant bases. Space travel I am sure would be almost impossible with out current technology. I'll pass on the rings. They are cool to imagine, or view on Saturn.
There would be some wicked light pollution at night, as well. Probably wouldn't be able to see any stars with something that bright in the night sky. Launching communication satellites would also be difficult to say the least.
Absolutely. I remember the problem NASA had with the two probes if had trying to get though the rings of Saturn to test it's surface. I forget it's name, but it was pelted like 50K times before reaching Saturns atmospher, luckily by just very small pieces of debri, not enough to ruin in communication, or circuitry.
This is a really thought provoking video, but wouldn't we get a poor view of the stars in the night sky and wouldn't the rings get in the way of geostationary satellites?
i agree, if earth was the planet in our solar system with rings, religion would have developed around those rings, like its gods created planet or something
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Man I wish they didn't play music when their tying to explain some this as complex as this cause I got me dancing and I totally lost the plot. Now I watch it again with out the dancing I found it quite pointless
It would shade enormous sections of the planet for extended periods of time; this would create huge temperature flux and thus extreme weather. And the plants in the shaded areas would not take too well to the new illumination levels, either.
From the way you'e describing it I would think you're talking about tidal lock. Rings are nowhere near the hazard you're making them out to be. Axial tilt would prevent most of the effects you're describing and they aren't that effective at blocking sunlight. Do eclipses cause any of these effects? No, then why would rings do?
We have enough orbital debris out there so who knows, maybe they will eventually group together and form a thin layer of space junk.
ZeerosFate 2 weeks ago
Amazing!!
sarajanegarr 1 month ago
Wow...most awesome video!...and a beautiful fantasy...
Thanks for sharing this!...it is now in my favorites.
MnktoDave 5 months ago
@blahblah1212 I'm with you guys but I don't have a cheese grater!
wwesww 8 months ago
would be an extra celestrial navigational aid.
dgreatunknown 8 months ago
They wud have to be much closer than the moon, wudnt that make some rocks fall in our planet cuz of gravity ?
settazteca 10 months ago
@settazteca the material of the rings would be in orbit. each rock in it's own orbit. once it all settled in, little would be coming out of the rings. The distance from the earth doesn't really matter if the material is in a stable orbit. The forming period would be a problem, but the size of the rocks would be small enough to burn up first.
fly44d 7 months ago
There would also be an area of perpetual shadow.
Keitaro2011 11 months ago
Amazing fantasy. Winter would be more depressing though as the rings would cut down the sunlight and heat reaching the atmosphere....so much colderd darker winters for anyone not near the Equator....but if it was truly spectacular (especially after sunset or shortly before sunrise), I'd go with it.
skyblazer7 11 months ago
This video should have shown us what it would look like when the rings were blocking out the light of the sun. Would it be like a solar eclipse? Would everything just get slightly darker because the rings aren't completely solid? Remember, this is something that would happen every day.
SPRLDR 1 year ago
planetary rings are one of my favorite astronomical feature. and despite the earth looking dam cool with them, they would block a lot of light and would make agriculture a bit difficult if not impossible for most of the year.
Ryagful 1 year ago
that would look soo beautiful, but destroying our moon will cause the Earth to have changes D:
NalaEx 1 year ago
As beautiful as it looks, if we DID have these rings, it might be where all our water would be - so we possibly may never have evolved :-(
Thankfully, though, we are here, on the Earth as it is and, what's more, we have this beauty in Saturn and other heavenly bodies to be marvelled by :-D
BrianJ1962 1 year ago
beautiful soundtrack
3dkiller 1 year ago
The Conspiracy is trying to popularize this concept so that you will accept their wild scheme to blow up excess Chinese in orbit to make the ring, so that the slight shadow will cool the Earth and allow the oil companies to keep selling you oil for hundreds of years! Resist! Revolt! No rings for oil!
Dracopol 1 year ago 2
Omg, beautiful... I wish that was a reality ;[
Kazka13 1 year ago
@Kazka13 because having meteors constantly crashing into Earth(more than there are now) would be SO much fun
JJAB91 1 year ago
What is this music? It is beautiful..
cylencce 1 year ago
pardon my language,but this would be SO FUCKING COOL!
Ryagful 1 year ago
what a fucking great video !!!!!!!
hunterrr2009 2 years ago
Would the shadow cast from the ring on the sunny side of earth (shown@ 1:49) create a kind of semi permanent 'night belt' across that part of the planet?
Wonderful vid by the way.
DJRU2 2 years ago 4
@DJRU2 During either hemisphere's summer, the ring would cover up a portion of it in shadow near the equator, but during their respective winters, the shadow would be in the other hemisphere, and it would almost disappear in the middle of spring/fall
BlazeDrag 1 year ago
the most mysterious planet in our solar system.whats incredible about it is that many occult groups worship the planet to this day wich is strange because science supposedly knows alot about it its a gas planet and there is a hexagon in the middle of it wich is strange because its not a solid planet and the hexagon never moves. the hexagon is were they got the davidian star from.
KOKID83 2 years ago
Yeah, they could clearly spot the hexagon-shaped storm on Saturn's polar cap back in the 11th century...
zolikoff 2 years ago
"the hexagon is were they got the davidian star from." Yet more proof that theists are deluded and religious faith is just make-believe for mentally retarded adults. These feeble-minded wankers can make themselves believe any old crap and convince themselves it's true. The hexagon is already known to be an unusually stable storm formation, like Jupiter's great red spot, but Saturn's low density, less than that of water, gives it this shape. If you boil water you can see hexagonal shapes in it.
alien8ted 2 years ago
being to much of a skeptic is idiotic i belive you deprive yourself of things that can be true, but your some much of a skeptic you wouldnt know god if he was right in front of you you would come up with your own rationalitation for it i know people exactly like that.
KOKID83 2 years ago
"It's good to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out." Jacob Needleman. The road to self-delusion ignores reality checks. You're one of those asshats who likes to spook people with bullshit and say 'isn't it weird?' you probably fancy yourself as a modern-day mystical shaman. I know people like that.
alien8ted 2 years ago
no i actually see both sides of the coin im neutralbut from what i see on your page you seem very one sided.
KOKID83 2 years ago
@alien8ted Or... he just thought it was cool and wanted to share. Who cares? It's cool animation.
stukajunker88 1 year ago
Stunning idea. How beautiful it would be...
Unfortunately, it would also futz up our view of space quite a bit.
HawkPidgeon 2 years ago
I want one
Sergeantspoon 2 years ago
Could anyone tell me the title and artist of the score of music used in this vid.
Thanks.
DesertLaser 2 years ago
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TechBearSeattle 2 years ago
I think it is the Saturn movement from Holst's The Planets Suite.
TechBearSeattle 2 years ago
imagine how sky wuld looks like iff we wuld have rings
club4ghz 2 years ago
Not to mention I wonder how our ancient cultures observing the rings would come up with crazy stories to explain them, our Bible and religions today might be slightly different don't ya think?...
crzer07 2 years ago 2
If we keep on shooting all the crap into orbit as we have done for many years, this ring could become a reality. After the first collision of all our space junk, launching anything to anywhere would become impossible, but after a thousand years or so, the Earth would have rings. I guess.
VictorValleyMuseum 2 years ago
The only thing this misses out on is the shadows cast on the earth and the how prolific & constant those shadows would be and the effect on the earth if that were to happen.
That gets the mind active - huh!
MilitantPeaceist 2 years ago
One thing is we wouldnt have a truely dark night coz the rings would be so bright. Go out into a field in a full moon and see how bright it is then imangine it a hunred time brighter. Also I think the earth would be hotter due to the heat bouncing back so maybe no ice ages. But in all I think the earth is too small to have rings?
kerbal666 2 years ago
the earth HAShad rings before, when the moon was being formed. so the earth COULD have rings if a bunch of relatively small objects flew towards the earth at the correct angle to orbit
CarpaceEater 2 years ago
It's only recently I've started not taking the moon for granted when I look at it. How empty the sky would be without it's presence, that makes me glad we still have our moon. I can imagine I would feel the same way about the rings.
MilletGtr 2 years ago
check out 3 of my videos i uploaded 10 mins ago
pennywwise 2 years ago
Saturn is very beautiful!!
nickharvey7 2 years ago
very cool!
Daneus05 2 years ago
The anime Xenoglossia actually gives Earth a ring system, albeit a thin one... out of the debris of the exploded Moon...
rgzdev 2 years ago
GREAT vid. I need "warp drive" so I may "homestead" a planet with a ring. (grin)
DesertLaser 2 years ago
Als we zo'n ring zouden hebben, zouden we hem gewoon zijn en er waarschijnlijk niet vaak meer naar kijken.
ridelo 2 years ago
Wonder how this would have affected human civilization.
Nerusai 2 years ago
Amazing! Thank you for this. It was very nice to see what it would look like from a person's viewpoint from Earth.
huyked 2 years ago
Sadly, if earth did gain a ring system like this, it couldn't last long if it's made of mainly ice. Earth is 10 times closer to the sun than Saturn and therefore receives 100 times more sunlight, so I guess the rings may melt in just a few million years.
alien8ted 2 years ago
What's the name of the track playing? Great video!
laack 2 years ago
I would allso like to know what the track is called. I recognice it so much.
Mattefjonkan 2 years ago
Someone below said something about "Chi Mai"
So i managed to find it:
Chi Mai - Ennio Morricone
Mattefjonkan 2 years ago
Well, lets colonize Saturn, then some lucky people will get their own rings.
Amiduffer 2 years ago
I don't think it would look anything like this... for one the ring is made up of rock and ice and with them constantly bumping into one another it wouldn't look as tapered.
graphicism 2 years ago
Awsome video. I think rings would be nice, and it would make navigation a lot easier most places (equator being the exception)
gulllars 2 years ago
Rings are cool, but my opinion Earth is better off without them. Earth is the only planet that has life, water, changing seasons. WAY better than anyother planets out there.
Trust me.
but great video non the less.
Daniel1000rr 2 years ago
The earth does have a ring but its made of very fine dust that doesn't reflect much light but you can see it with IR. They've found Satern's got a bonkers massive one millions miles wide.
Also we have a ring of space junk and old sataliteS
kerbal666 2 years ago
i remember this song was with something
kerbal666 2 years ago
This vid is amazing.
1bloodlover 2 years ago
If we had rings, I would imagine that there would have never been a flat earth belief.
But imagine the creation myths associated with the rings?
Awesome vids, thanks for making us wonder what it would be like. Nice photo manips!!
O2BSoLucky 2 years ago
daamn i wish the earth had rings that'd be cool
oggleman 2 years ago
We should get some for Xmas!!
Nice vid!!
elbay2 2 years ago 3
would blowing up the moon make rings?
1lalaland 2 years ago 10
@1lalaland Blowing up the Moon would make Dooms Day lol... billions of asteroids resulting from the explosion would crash into the Earth. We wouldn't be around to see our rings lol
ProjectVRD 1 year ago
I propose we send all the trash from our landfills and create artificial rings around the planet! Go green ftw! =)
FishApprentice 2 years ago
What about the cities that would sit in darkness for 4-5 months a year due to the rings blocking sunlight?
zolikoff 2 years ago
wonderfull
kkkkdukkk 2 years ago
Bifrost Poem
Henry Adams Bellows translation:
Kormt and Ormt and the Kerlaugs twain
Shall Thor each day wade through,
(When dooms to give he forth shall go
To the ash-tree Yggdrasil;)
For heaven's bridge burns all in flame,
And the sacred waters seethe.
michaelispan 2 years ago
What a wonderful idea! Thank you for charring!
Rasayana85 2 years ago
Amasing! Beautiful and will make me have wicked sci-fi dreams tonight =) Thanks for sharing! 5*
Aeonboom 2 years ago
makes me think of
"Infinity the Quest for earth"
A space sim MMO thats in development. The quality looks even better than whats in this video...
still amazing though :D
hutchings000 2 years ago
What a beautiful thought experiment :)
TheFluffyDuck 2 years ago
Well, there's no other choice now.
We need a few dozen volunteers with cheese graters to go to the moon and make this happen.
Fitzcard 2 years ago 19
@Fitzcard *grabs cheese grater* LETS DO THIS!
blahbahl1212 1 year ago
beautiful, too bad we don't
@Mithcoriel, thats what I was thinking too
cabailey88 2 years ago
I wonder what mythologies would have developed on earth over time, if we'd had those rings.
Mithcoriel 2 years ago
i bet they would have they did for the moon and stars along with the sun and planets that were visible
Prontest 2 years ago
Yeah. Some cultures would probably assume that heaven is up there on those rings. Or that the rings are what holds the sky together, etc.
Mithcoriel 2 years ago
yeah or that its a road there or its a great slash in the sky caused by a battle of gods lol lack of understanding can make the best stories
Prontest 2 years ago
Beautiful! Thanks.
Lpoolboy 2 years ago 2
great stuff ty
smashbeans 2 years ago
That was cool / thanks!
M0THERKN0WSBEST 2 years ago
Very very cool! ★★★★★
Katalyzt
Katalyzt 2 years ago
wouldn't throw the rings shadows on some places in winter?
schneemann1991 2 years ago
Good thing we don't have rings, that would pose a problem for satellites.
Blammo25 2 years ago
a ring could form when there's enough space junk in the orbit
badmuthaphucka 2 years ago
for a monent earth had ring when like 4-5 billion years ago the eath collided with another planet and thy either fell back to earth or the formed the moon.
MrGHAMBA 2 years ago
The Earth already has a ring system.
netsoj 2 years ago
Beautiful!
noblessus 2 years ago
The Earth would be looked stupid.
ShaCRaM 2 years ago
you need to learn to spell.
3dscott 2 years ago
English is not my native language I don't need to write perfectly.
ShaCRaM 2 years ago
this soundtrack fucking owns
klaran 2 years ago
Great Job Roy Prol
SteilLaw 2 years ago
This was beautiful. Of all the countless planets in the universe, there must be amazing sights all throughout the universe, far beyond what we can imagine.
jazzdbassman87 2 years ago
Imagine being a living sentient being orbiting a giant gas planet on a moon that orbits outside the vast ring system of that planet. From there you would see in your sky the rings, the giant planet, your home star and possibly 5 other moons just like your home moon.
omegavalerius 2 years ago 2
Poor moon, a bet it feels left out
NotJames1 2 years ago 2
Wouldn't the planet lose it's tidal forces, with the mass being so evenly distributed?
Kasarii 2 years ago
I think if the earth was massive enough to support rings it would be a gas giant, so the point is moot. :(
mbturner625 2 years ago
That's not ture, not even saturn's rings weight more than our moon.
The mass of the moon is more than 1 thousand times the mass of saturn's rings.
So I don't think it woulod be a problem for the earth to have rings, not at all (=
And it would be much cooler than the moon because the moon looks pretty much the same everywhere :P
I wonder how many superstitions there would then be about the rings... :D
levi799 2 years ago
Well, the moon certainly would be a problem for the rings.
Can't have both, really.
Denamic 2 years ago
why is that?
styrmirr86 2 years ago
That's totally right, but maybe a smaller moon, or maybe several pretty small moons not very close to the rings would probably be ok.
But a moon just like ours would probably be a problem.
levi799 2 years ago 2
"Well, the moon certainly would be a problem for the rings.
Can't have both, really."
Not like Saturn doesn't have 61 of them, or Jupiter 63, Uranus 27 and Neptune 13. In fact all the planets in our solar system that have rings also have way beyond the amount the moons we have. So what the hell are you talking about, really?
s23b 2 years ago
Yeah, the gravitational pull from Saturns moons are far less than the gravitational pull of Saturn. While in the Earth-Luna system the gravitational pull from Luna is non-trivial. The rings would probably be much less refined looking, at least.
Gerafix 2 years ago 3
I was talking about THE moon, as in OUR moon.
The gravitational field of our moon would cause unbalance in any rings and cause the rocks to plummet and burn in the earth's atmosphere. Which likely is why we don't have any rings now.
So, relatively speaking, our moon's gravitational pull versus that of the earth's is too great to sustain a ring, is what the hell I'm talking about.
Denamic 2 years ago
Of course we could. If the ring is inside or outside the moon's orbit, there wouldn't a problem.
niiidar 2 years ago
The moon creates tides on earth, it would also drag the particles in the ring around and out of shape...
Maux4200 2 years ago
Slightly, yes. But then the particles would fall into their original stable satellite trajectory when the moon has passed. It's rather simple gravitational physics.
niiidar 2 years ago 2
that is a very good point! And your english is great for a Norwegian-er :)
Maux4200 2 years ago
If the moon was smaller, was less dense or orbited much further away than it is now, perhaps. As it is, the moon has far too much influence for the earth's gravitational pull to sustain a ring. At least one that is large and close enough to be visible.
Denamic 2 years ago
Wow...this would be just awesome!
burchdc 2 years ago
Very cool.
Would the planet not be a dead w/o the moon?
ZombieX13 2 years ago
I've always wondered about this. Nice video.
SeppukuDoll 2 years ago
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The only dunce is people like you that do not mind there own business and get personal with people you do not know. Lets hope you or someone in your family gets a nasty illness or diseases and dies slowly.
MicrosoftsourceCode 2 years ago
It's too bad earth doesn't have rings. It surely would have been a sight that would have inspired poems, myths and romance much like the moon has for centuries.
Very well done.
tbillinger 2 years ago
Thanks for the cool video.
coil311 2 years ago
1:55 that building is called the Turning Torso. It looks similar to the Tower of Babel.
In Dubai a building that is even taller than this one is being built. Its called the Infinity Tower. It also looks similar to the Tower of Babel.
just sayin......
SavagesInMyTown 2 years ago
click on this 2:55 to see the Turning Torso.....read my other post please....lol
SavagesInMyTown 2 years ago
how would you know how the tower of babel looked? i am just asking
vision4DaY 2 years ago 6
thats scarry o-O
sandslash123 2 years ago
I have ALWAYS wondered about these very same questions. THANK YOU! <3
Otokogoroshi 2 years ago
Splendid, though I really wished the video had also shown the rings from the vantage of standing at various points within its shadow. Would there have been any refractive halos associated with the sun where the rings were thinner? And what would the countryside look like at the terminus between shadow and light?
;-)
antaresrichard 2 years ago 3
Oh yeah, imagine the shadow edge obliquely cutting across the clouds.
;-)
antaresrichard 2 years ago 2
Would there be infalling material at the equator hence more shooting stars and would they be traveling parallel to the ring?
;-)
antaresrichard 2 years ago
aaaaaaaaaaaaaah BRAVO...
The only limit is one's Imagination...
verkaserduch 2 years ago
I do wantz a ring around deh earph!! @_@
Jeredin13 2 years ago
Then blow up the moon.
WouldbeSage 2 years ago 2
I'm sure Kent Hovind would have a lecture on how life could not have survived without the rings.
gonyea12 2 years ago 4
People who dig this kind of sci fi should REALLY check out the book "ringworld." It's fantastic.
wretcherwretch 2 years ago
That was pretty cool.
jebus6kryst 2 years ago
Imagine if the earth always had rings. What would primitive peoples have thought of them? What kind on intersting myths and stroies would they have told?
zenmastermtl 2 years ago 3
Very intuitive!
gonyea12 2 years ago
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BEAUTIFUL! Love it!
wallofjustin 2 years ago
somebody get on making us some rings
loudsilence321 2 years ago
awesome looking, could the earth ever really have rings? maybe artificially made rings... lol, sounds like a good human feat to accomplish!
cloudstrife543 2 years ago
Question I have is how would this affect the tides, would there be any gravitational effect felt or is it too insignificant. Also, in the pictures of the earth it showed a shadow, so the winter hemisphere would have a shadow across certain latitudes right which means 6 months darkness for certain cities? At least that what it looks like at 1:54 for example.
tobyeo 2 years ago
Very cool! Makes me wish we had rings so the night sky would be even more beautiful! Unfortunealy some stars would then be blocked, though, so there would be a significant price...hmm...
jjmblue7 2 years ago
That is so awesome! O_O
BlobQueenAt32000 2 years ago
I don't know, I don't think the Earth looks very good with rings. They look best on Saturn.
BeekersSqueakers 2 years ago
wouldn't it cause a problem where the shadow it produces is cast?
bluetrilobite 2 years ago
Beautiful...though I am suddenly wanting to play Halo again!
skippymvp 2 years ago 5
It'd be easy to keep your orientation, always knowing where the equator is...
SeanCitizen 2 years ago 2
All scientific considerations aside (for the moment), this is an interesting idea to envision.
cylencce 2 years ago
i live near cologne, germany. man that would be beauitful!!! we would be talking about the rings like we do with our moon today. wow, the rings look beautiful tonight!!
Benedikt27 2 years ago 2
The rings would cast a gigantic shadow over a section of the earth on a day by day bases. While it wouldn't be a frozen tundra, it most certainly would create enough change in temperature to change the current jet streams dramatically. Not only air temperatures, but water temperatures as well. The hot and cold areas on the planet would most certainly be different, and if the rings reflected light heated up other parts of the globe, I would imagine our weather patterns would be quite violent.
iDeist 2 years ago 5
Then there is the physical side of things, I am sure rocks from the ring fall into the atmosphere on a constant bases. Space travel I am sure would be almost impossible with out current technology. I'll pass on the rings. They are cool to imagine, or view on Saturn.
iDeist 2 years ago
I'll convey your concerns to the committee I'm planning on setting up to carry out a feasibility study for a man made ring around the earth.
I just thought it would be pretty.
I often overlook such practical matters.
Thanks.
:-)
bakedbean37 2 years ago
lol Neon green and pink would be cool.
iDeist 2 years ago
There would be some wicked light pollution at night, as well. Probably wouldn't be able to see any stars with something that bright in the night sky. Launching communication satellites would also be difficult to say the least.
njb444 2 years ago
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Absolutely. I remember the problem NASA had with the two probes if had trying to get though the rings of Saturn to test it's surface. I forget it's name, but it was pelted like 50K times before reaching Saturns atmospher, luckily by just very small pieces of debri, not enough to ruin in communication, or circuitry.
iDeist 2 years ago
I was just thinking "wouldn't it be great if you showed what it would look like from the surface" and then you did. :-)
rozeboosje 2 years ago 5
Give it time, We'll soon have a ring of space debris.
exconguitar 2 years ago
This is a really thought provoking video, but wouldn't we get a poor view of the stars in the night sky and wouldn't the rings get in the way of geostationary satellites?
yookayman 2 years ago
Darn! now i wish we had a ring
ReZaDh 2 years ago
lol should make some though i doubt any country would fund it but should be possible with technology now lol.
Prontest 2 years ago
Oh if only the Earth had rings... Those were beautiful images and really would be something special as the real thing.
Ikaroos 2 years ago 2
some say that Earth has indeed had rings before.
AcanLord 2 years ago
Might give the Earth a sense of unity.
JJAB91 2 years ago
Bright rings in the night times would be awesome. Surely we could purposely create some rings like that one of these days?
Palluke 2 years ago
hm... I wonder what the religous consequense would come from this. What would they had been called, what would they be? etc.
10thAngel 2 years ago
no i think the earth is boring, thanks!
LOL that would be spectacular, maybe if we smash up the moon we can make the rings? any one?
320iguy 2 years ago
Umm no, because that is way to little material to be able to produce these rings. Also there are different materials needed then just moonrock.
NathanWubs 2 years ago
bummer i am stoked maybe steal the ones from Saturn...
LOL
320iguy 2 years ago
Would they completely block light from the sun when they cast shadows?
jgoemat 2 years ago
haha, i bet if earth had the rings christians, muslims and other crazies would imagine that's where souls went after death or some shit like that.
illbetilbake 2 years ago 4
i agree, if earth was the planet in our solar system with rings, religion would have developed around those rings, like its gods created planet or something
Benedikt27 2 years ago
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Man I wish they didn't play music when their tying to explain some this as complex as this cause I got me dancing and I totally lost the plot. Now I watch it again with out the dancing I found it quite pointless
MicrosoftsourceCode 2 years ago
I'm thinking the earth did have a ring before the moon.
Maybe not as elaborate or well-defined as Saturn's but certainly, there must've been alot of debris around Earth in its infancy.
MonsterLopes 2 years ago
its true, i saw a thing on it a week ago. all the debris collided to form the moon eventually
Benedikt27 2 years ago
It would shade enormous sections of the planet for extended periods of time; this would create huge temperature flux and thus extreme weather. And the plants in the shaded areas would not take too well to the new illumination levels, either.
1RadicalOne 2 years ago 3
From the way you'e describing it I would think you're talking about tidal lock. Rings are nowhere near the hazard you're making them out to be. Axial tilt would prevent most of the effects you're describing and they aren't that effective at blocking sunlight. Do eclipses cause any of these effects? No, then why would rings do?
GlueSniffer4Life 2 years ago
"Axial tilt would prevent most of the effects"
No, that would make the problem WORSE, expanding the shaded area.
"They aren't that effective at blocking sunlight"
Look at Saturn's rings. They cast enormous and dark shadows.
"Do eclipses cause these effects?"
Do eclipses happen every day and last all day, covering a huge area? No.
1RadicalOne 2 years ago 7
Fantastic idea and great visualisation, thank you!
tobitege 2 years ago 2
That would certainly make our winters colder.
coladict 2 years ago
super cool
Edgrs 2 years ago
Rings, while beautiful, would be an ecological and climatological disaster.
1RadicalOne 2 years ago
JESUS DID IT!
anthonzi 2 years ago
this is awesome, especially the cities pictures
Voidic 2 years ago 2