What Earth would look like if we had rings like Saturn

[krispos42]

Including some animations on how it would look from various cities around the Earth.


It's pretty cool. :-)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75e_1258653471

[Sherman A1]

1. Thanks for posting.

Cool

[Howler]

2. Sweet!!!! n/t

n/t

[Bryn]

3. Lovely!

:loveya:

[tridim]

4. I bet if we had rings, human evolution would have been much different

Plant life would have evolved differently as well due to the brightness.

And of course religion would be completely different than what we ended up with. Seeing that shape in the sky would be very powerful on a philosophical level. I think we would have figured out orbits and gravity much sooner than we did.

Thanks for posting!

[ret5hd]

5. Here is what they would look like from Beijing:

http://district.sbschools.net/ite/help/photostory/GrayBackground.BMP

[hootinholler]

6. Could we have rings with the moon there?

I would think the lunar perturbation would cause the ice to scatter and fall to earth.

:shrug:

-Hoot

[pokerfan]

9. Considering what the tides do to the oceans

I would think that they would wreak havoc on a ring system.

[Phoonzang]

7. For some reason I found that disturbing...and I don't know why.

Maybe seeing something that massive (yes, I know the rings really aren't) hanging in the sky over familiar locales? Who knows.

[byronius]

8. Neat as hell.

[leveymg]

10. Honestly hadn't thought about that before. Pretty neat.

[Odin2005]

11. Very cool!

:D