How Earth will look if it had a ring system like Saturn

[McHanhan]

Also: does anyone have a scientific reason why the ring, be it natural or man made be exactly at the equator?.

et voila [http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q58.html]

Merci beaucoup!

At any rate would the resulting shadow from the rings plunge us into chaos?. Would be there a temperature change or crazy monster weather seasons (typhoons and such). I wonder how dark this shadow on saturn is. From the surface I mean.

 

[orangebandguy]

That's quite something.

 

[Maze1125]

First off, the concept that the earth was flat would never have come into fruition.

Such a concept never really existed anyway.
Every scholar and navigator throughout history has known the Earth was round. The idea we didn't know is itself a myth.

The educated classes knew that the earth was round, uneducated peasentries did not. I don't think that the rings would have made it easier for navigators and famous explorers to justify their intercontinental travels to themselves so much as it would have been easier to explain flying off into the wild blue yonder to a crew of largely superstitious sailors. In this regard, the existence of rings would still have resulted in much more wide spread exploration much earlier.

Again, every sailor knew that the Earth was round.

 

[Laura.]

Nice! I'd like that. Or at least some kind of very-close-planet-on-the-horizon like in Pitch Black:

Spoiler: here

I loved the NY at night picture.

 

[TheMatt]

Very cool. i imagine there would be a lot more potheads and a plethora of bad poetry if this were fact.

 

[evilartist]

Hey, we've all seen Cowboy Bebop. I don't want a bunch of orbiting stuff constantly crashing down here! [/sarcasm]

Seriously, though, that ring looks hideous on our blue planet, probably because the colors don't match. If it were perhaps blue, then it would look good.

 

[Blackout62]

Yeah all that trash we keep dropping there, I'm sure one day it'll form a belt around the Earth. It won't be pretty since instead of rocks it'll be junk like broken satellites, dropped panels, bolts and insulating foam.

Of course! We could launch a colossal number of satellites into space forming a ring that also allows communication across the entire world.

 

[Grayjack]

Who cares if the rings could fuck up the Earth? I want rings now!

 

[Dark Knifer]

It looks amazing, but would cause so many different problems for earth...

 

[Julianking93]

I wish we had a ring system

 

[McHanhan]

Yeah all that trash we keep dropping there, I'm sure one day it'll form a belt around the Earth. It won't be pretty since instead of rocks it'll be junk like broken satellites, dropped panels, bolts and insulating foam.

Of course! We could launch a colossal number of satellites into space forming a ring that also allows communication across the entire world.

It's not technically a visible ring now is it?