What Earth would look like, and what we’d see in the sky, if it had rings like Saturn.

I think the sociological and historical issues would be even more interesting to theorise: how would we have changed our thinking on the sky? How much more quickly would our navigational abilities evolved? Would we have ‘landed’ on the rings first? Would I still want to ‘go large’ with my Happy Meal? Science can only speculate.

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    how amazing would this be?! (to touch on one of everythinginthesky’s hypothetical questions: “would we have landed on...
  5. smartgoat reblogged this from ronbailey and added:
    Dammit, now I can’t think about anything except how much I wish we had rings. Stupid not-ring-having planet.
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    just realized that...use the word “awesome” far too easily.
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