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What Earth Would Look Like With Rings Li...

What the rings would look like from different cities and latitudes across the world. It`s interesting to imagine how it would effect culture throughout time. It would have influenced religion, mythology, navigation, etc.

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computermexican2 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

computermexican2

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77 days 9 hours ago...

Looks like Halo

Wittman45 : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

Wittman45

31 votes NegativePositive

77 days 9 hours ago...

That would actually look pretty cool

fryser_d : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

fryser_d

101 votes NegativePositive

77 days 9 hours ago...

Can I understand from this, that we now have a reason to blow up the moon?

Presto : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

Presto

40 votes NegativePositive

77 days 9 hours ago...

ah but the Earth did have rings:

The most profound climatic event of the Tertiary was the terminal Eocene event 34 million years ago. The sudden change in the abundance of forest plants suggests that the winters became much more severe while the summers remained about the same. At about the same time, the radiolaria were devastated by some sort of disaster. This was also the time when the North American tektite strewn field was deposited -- a field that stretches halfway around the world. John O`Keefe hypothesizes that some of the tektites and microtektites that rained down during this period missed the earth and went into orbit around it, forming an opaque Saturn-like ring. This ring might have lasted a million years or more; and its shadow could have caused the extrasevere winters postulated from botanical data.

from
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf012/sf012p07.htm

The Living End : LVL 60: VP 5: said:

The Living End

39 votes NegativePositive

77 days 7 hours ago...

Well that made my night.

And @Presto, I was wondering about the shadow from said rings. Wouldn`t that make a few hundred miles basically uninhabitable?

proconsul : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

proconsul

144 votes NegativePositive

77 days 5 hours ago...

you know, in a parallel dimension someone has posted a video wondering what earth would be like without a ring

pharb : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

pharb

48 votes NegativePositive

77 days 4 hours ago...

Dude, you just blew my fucking mind!

archentar : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

archentar

17 votes NegativePositive

77 days 2 hours ago...

@Presto:
I think that not only winters but it would also cause much stronger storms then we know.
But as a graphical concept it looks nice.

Uzo : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

Uzo

19 votes NegativePositive

77 days 1 hour ago...

Wow ... good post Presto. And this would have made an incredible difference to the development of civilisation. Not the least of which would be peculiar weather patterns.

pvtsnowbaII : LVL 4: VP 1.3: said:

pvtsnowbaII

17 votes NegativePositive

77 days ago...

That would be really cool to see how it would have influenced religion and mythology.

the-jaKub : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

the-jaKub

5 votes NegativePositive

77 days ago...

^
It would probably be the same except Christians would come up with some bullshit theory as to why there were rings in the sky

Dennis_aap : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

Dennis_aap

29 votes NegativePositive

77 days ago...

5 out of 5
based on 103 votes
awesome never seen that before !

Rasa : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Rasa

15 votes NegativePositive

77 days ago...

Song was cool.

anemis : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

anemis

22 votes NegativePositive

76 days 23 hours ago...

well it would,nt be hard to now where east and west was lol

Swuave : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

Swuave

26 votes NegativePositive

76 days 23 hours ago...

I bet if earth had a ring, science would have progressed faster. We would have likely figured out that the world was round much earlier which leads to many other discoveries. Think about how religion, history and mythology would all differ.

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