If Earth had Rings Like Saturn...What Would It Look Like?
Sep 30, 2013 22:15:39 #
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/visualnewscom/hypothetical-pics-if-eart_b_3460703.html?utm_source=howtogeek&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Interesting artist's concept...
Phil
Interesting artist's concept...
Phil
Interesting
Sep 30, 2013 23:15:04 #
Sep 30, 2013 23:39:19 #
The artist in the article "paints" some pictures showing what the rings would look like from different places on the earth.
The video in the article also shows some interesting views from the ground.
Phil
The video in the article also shows some interesting views from the ground.
Phil
Sep 30, 2013 23:40:51 #
Sep 30, 2013 23:46:52 #
Phil. That is pretty cool. Almost makes me wish the earth had rings so we could witness this.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
Oct 1, 2013 02:34:09 #
From a practical standpoint, you have to remember that Saturn's rings are made up of billions of "rocks", most the size of gravel but, some the size of a small car.
And they're constantly moving around and banging into each other.
Since we have so many NEO (Near Earth Objects) that burn up in our atmosphere every day (estimates range from 5 to 40 tons of dust and meteorites EVERY day) there's a better than good chance that some of those would impact objects in any "ring" and cause them to fall out and land on Earth.
So, it might be a fairly dangerous place to be under the rings around the equator, plus or minus a few hundred miles.
Based on the video, the inner ring would probably be 10,000 miles above Earth's surface or more.
That wouldn't affect the ISS or other low orbit manned missions.
BUT, that would interfere with all those synchronous orbit satellites at 23,000 miles that we use for DirecTV, phones and other forms of communications we've gotten used to.
Gotta have my DirecTV... don'cha know...
But, it would be pretty, though.
Phil
And they're constantly moving around and banging into each other.
Since we have so many NEO (Near Earth Objects) that burn up in our atmosphere every day (estimates range from 5 to 40 tons of dust and meteorites EVERY day) there's a better than good chance that some of those would impact objects in any "ring" and cause them to fall out and land on Earth.
So, it might be a fairly dangerous place to be under the rings around the equator, plus or minus a few hundred miles.
Based on the video, the inner ring would probably be 10,000 miles above Earth's surface or more.
That wouldn't affect the ISS or other low orbit manned missions.
BUT, that would interfere with all those synchronous orbit satellites at 23,000 miles that we use for DirecTV, phones and other forms of communications we've gotten used to.
Gotta have my DirecTV... don'cha know...
But, it would be pretty, though.
Phil
Oct 1, 2013 08:31:07 #
Oct 1, 2013 08:36:38 #
Oct 1, 2013 11:04:07 #
phil7782 wrote:
From a practical standpoint, you have to remember ... (show quote)
I think that we do have rings around our planet and a lot of what you say about falling from the sky has happened. That is the only reason I come up with that we have so many bone head politicians. They were bopped in the head with this falling debris.
Oct 1, 2013 12:43:32 #
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