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This is a link post If Earth had rings
animation of how the sky would look if Earth had rings like Saturn
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This is a normal post That was ace!
The reconstructed views from earth were pratty damn nifty.
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This is a normal post Lovely
That would be nice
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This is a normal post that's purdy

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This is a normal post The Moon can just fuck off
I want rings around our planet !! *kerlick*
 (mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 10:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Shame it doesn't mention the fucking huge shadow
being cast on the earth, or did I miss that bit?
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 10:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post I was thinking that.
And also about how rings implies the absence of such a large moon - or any moon at all - and the effects that these facts'd have on tidal forces and weather patterns.
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This is a normal post Stop getting all sciencey on us !
*burns observatory* ;)
 (mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 10:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post I wonder what the earth would look like
if it was shaped like a CDC.... *wonders*



 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 10:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post There needs to be a ring about half-way down the CDC ;)

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This is a normal post Good point!
*fixed*
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post FP this NOW !!

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This is a normal post pffft
people like me don't get FP, that's reserved for the special people.
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This is a normal post Ah bless
*ruffles hair*
 (mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post There should be more moons
to represent the cum. And I see no pubes!
 (I helped save b3ta! morrybyte made a subtle namechange at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post that's a good point
mini moons circling the moon, like some kind of fractal moon situation, getting increasingly smaller and smaller toward infinity.

I didn't include the pubes as it defied the laws of physics, and I didn't want to make the picture childish and innacurate.
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 13:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post Don't accuse me of science!
I'm a humanities ponce through and through. I've done no science since a disappointing GCSE in physics in 1993.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post hahaha that is an excellent point
I had completely forgotten about the moon. So in the process of getting a lully ring thing round earth, all life probably would of been wiped out. Mother Earth just has to have the latest fashion though! Moons are so last season, rings are where it's at.
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 10:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post Not sure about all life
but it'd be a very different planet. Doesn't the moon also have a slight tectonic impact? That'd make a difference to the carbon cycle, as well as the shape of the continents.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well what else would provide tidal forces?
If water doesn't move, it gets stagnent. The sea would stink like a bastard.
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post Dunno.
There could still be life around the thermal vents - the mechanism that's been proposed to support possible life on Titan or Europa.
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This is a normal post ewww
like little bum holes in the stagnent sea. I think I prefer the moon lol
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's the relative heating/cooling
at the equator and the poles that provide most of the oceanic currents.

I don't think the moon has an awful lot to do with it in terms of stopping it stagnate.
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This is a normal post Why do rings imply no moon?
On one of the pictures (Ayers Rock) it's even on there too. Saturn has moons too. The moon is much further away than the rings are, so it's conceivable that weather patterns etc would still work. I have no idea what effect the rings would have and weather there really would be a massive shadown. Maybe some trickery of the light would allow us not to live in perpetual darkness in winter the further north we are along the equator.
 (I helped save b3ta! morrybyte made a subtle namechange at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's a couple of reasons behind my thinking.
One is that the rings would likely as not be formed by the matter that'd otherwise have formed the moon.

The second is that, if there were rings and a moon, the rings probably wouldn't last, as the moon's gravity would destroy them. This would either be because the contents of the ring would be knocked out of orbit, either towards Earth or into space; or because the moon would accrete the material to itself.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post Universe Sandbox, a nifty simulation
...says that if earth had rings like Saturn, they would be unstable with the moon.
This screen is from after only 21 years of the rings magically appearing.

The strange pattern is because the moon does not orbit the equator.
However, even if we did have a moon that went round the equator, the
rings would still break apart.
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This is a normal post I WANT PIPE RINGS
*sigh* I give up my defence of the rings.
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This is a normal post *wanks*
that's some cool shit!
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This is a normal post Here you go. It's not free, but you can chose your own price*
universesandbox.com/


*Within reason
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This is a normal post I bought a license straight away
it will be all of the awesome for doing music vids, presuming I can export as movies. *glees*
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This is a normal post "smash moons into planets"
they know their target audience :)
 (bobming, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 15:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post 50 years on...
Things are strange, but not totally unstable.

 (I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post 200 Years since the rings appeared and things are surprising stable

Camera moving, not the rings.
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This is a normal post I like this
A lot.

Way to go with the numerical simulation.
 (Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post pfft
that looks identical to my* cock ring above



*not my personal cock ring
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post not exactly ideal
but what flavour is the hoola hoop?
 (I helped save b3ta! morrybyte made a subtle namechange at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
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This is a normal post Bonus points awarded!

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This is a normal post saturn gets away with it, we need a smaller moon
*fetches chisel*
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This is a normal post No they don't
Roche limit innit?

Matter close to the Roche limit to the Earth don't form moons because they'd be ripped apart by tidal forces.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
 (Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ta
Though I maintain that the moon's own gravity would quite probably still disrupt the ring formation.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't know
How much does the moon affect satellite orbits?
 (I helped save b3ta! morrybyte made a subtle namechange at, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Over the course of a few thousand years, I'd suspect quite a bit.
And they've already been welded together...
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This is a normal post still possible
that they would get into some sort of status-quo like orbit where they get pulled away by the moon and then back by the earth and so on (a bit like a comet getting all the way to the asteroid belt but then getting pulled back by the sun. I'm aware there's a different reason for that, but it's still possible).

Meh, I'm sure there's a reason there aren't any rings now.
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This is a normal post Sod it
If you're going to stick in rings, why not move the moon to somewhere where it'll not fuck with them?
 (Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Im guessing it would also
because of the the gravitational scale differences between the moon and earth than lets say compared to the gravitational forces from a gas giant sutch as saturn with a small moon sutch as Europa would only make a difference if one of the moons orbits close enough and then it would still only have a minimal desruption due to the gravitational scale difference. Because of the mass of the moon compared to that of the earth and the fact that it already affects a mass as heavy and close to the earth itself sutch as water then Im asuming the rings would be completely disrupted. OR more interesting still perhaps there would be a figure of 8 style ring system between earth and the moon (although that's doubtful as the moon doesn't rotate). If that makes any sense (not a scientist just a humble musician with a telescope)
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This is a normal post Even Satuarn's rings are not stable
They are getting wider very quickly
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This is a normal post is it not balanced out by some moons
being inside the rings?
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This is a normal post my classics are shit...
can someone give me a heads up on the music?
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This is a normal post Just Ave Maria
I think it's by Schubert
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This is a normal post Ave Maria
Dunno the singer.

EDIT: should have refreshed.
 (I helped save b3ta! gingerfreak Why? Why not., Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think the singer
is Nana Mouskouri
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This is a normal post Singer is Barbara Bonney
*used shazam
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This is a normal post We might end up with rings made of junk
- knackered satellites and so forth.
 (Jimbotfu Bummed in the gob again, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 11:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post 'How would the Earth look...' or 'What would the Earth look like...'
Not "How would the Earth look like".

The rings would screw up satellite telecommunications and make all the houses/apartments without ring views plummet in value. I say let's make it happen!
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This is a normal post You could give people facing away from the equator a ring view
by mounting massive goatse bill boards on the poles
 (Hal Baffe, Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post that's utterly lovely
I wonder how different the human race would be (i.e. culture, society, religion etc) if this had been the case
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This is a normal post Great vid - it really got me thinking...
(Aside from the physical possibilities re. the moon etc), How would human culture and religion and mysticism have developed differently if we had had rings?

In Ecuador, they would have seen the vertical line, and could have come up with all sorts of theories and God's etc, but then further north, where you see more of it, there would have been many more different interpretations...

Haven't spent too much time thinking of the possibilities yet, but it's certainly food for thought.

(It could even be quite a good basis for a film...)
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This is a normal post Well I'm sold
Let's do it!
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