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"What Earth Would Look Like with Saturn's Rings" is a YouTube video that gives Earth its own ring system. It provides views of the planet and rings from space ... but then takes it a step further and shows what the rings would look like from the planet's surface (a thin edge rising through the sky on the equator, a wide band near the poles). Very, very cool.
Cool indeed!
The shadow would create extended periods of darkness like an eclypse, would it not?
»Cat Stevens might havewritten a song about it. I wonder about the impact that Earth rings would have on our culture? SciFi is not a dead or even dying genre, maybe hibernation.
»I'm guessing yes, based on photos like this. How long they last, I have no idea -- anyone seen a time lapse of Saturn's ring shadows? :)
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