If Earth had Rings
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Artifexian on the topic of terrestrial ring systems. Could an earth-like planet have rings and if so what effect would the rings have on a culture.
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Thanks you all so much for watching…Edgar out!
Thanks, I'm writing about a fantasy world with a ring system and this was exactly what I was looking for
Same here
Yep, me too. In fact, I made multiple ringed habitable planets. Here are their names: Gargant, Tundrayaal, Okko, Geante, Natun, Okul, Ydri, Zirn, Ilazu, Hyron, Bliz, Wita, Arthe, Psi Vulcanis b, Zivna, Zivniq and Tuke. Every single one of them is in a different star system.
I'm doing something similar myself! I've been hearing about ice or rock rings on this topic but what about crystal rings? I'm asking this because it actually has to do with the mythology in my stories and I figured that crystals wouldn't be impossible in space debris. Anyone got an idea on how that would work?
UPDATE: Anyone got anything to say on this? I just don't want to think I've made a bad idea.
Good luck! Hope we'll be able to read your book soon 😄
I’m making a book that takes place in several places in the Orion Arm and I designed a ring planet with a red appearance that lives in a binary star system giving it extra oxygen so that the fauna and flora double in variety. The planet is also a bit smaller than Earth (0.92 earths) so larger creatures can grow on the planet.
If Earth's rings were bright enough to dull the moon, how much would that affect our ability to see the stars?
If the rings aren't very thin or dim, I doubt you'd be able to see the stars at all, save for at very specific times or locations, like directly below the rings, or the poles of the planet around their respective autumns. You may also have a better chance of seeing the stars when the rings from earth's view are not facing the sun.
The rings became the moon
Would the rings reflect enough light so that each night would be brighter than during a full moon? Likewise, if Earth was close to one or more bright nebulae, would there be enough light at night to easily travel?
@@ceegesange9904 Depends
I saw a post on imgur the other day that I think would be an interesting subject for a future video. That being, it basically proposed "What if, instead of deep oceans, we had forests that went as deep as they do, with taller and taller trees and life becoming more bizarre the further you go into it?"
+Destructowad That sounds awesome! Am very intrigued.
It would definitely be a great video if you're interested in speculative evolution.
+Destructowad That is actually the background of my world. The planet started being purely a forest of REALLY big trees, some easily being 1km wide.
I think it's a really awesome idea and would be definitely worth exploring on a speculative channel such as this.
Destructowad It really would.
Meanwhile in an alternate universe, there'll be a video talking about if earth doesn't have rings
Edit: oh my god my english 3 years ago was HORRIBLE and cringe
Anata Pindika yess
Woke shit
".....................Animals and plants would have to evolve to withstand higher temperatures due to the rings absence"
Let's talk about parallel universes.
*But first, we need to talk about parallel universes.
Apparently earth is ugly and no one wants to put a ring on it.
Kimberlyn McMurray roasted
IF YA LIKE IT THEN YOU SHOULDA PUT A RING ON IT
He was too busy to let humans, animals and plants live first, so....don't slip your chance dude
Kimberlyn McMurray you are a blessed person
Kimberlyn McMurray XD
This is really cool. I've often thought about how much different human culture and religions would be if the Earth had rings. I mean, just look at all the symbolism the ancients placed on the stars and constellations, imagine what they'd come up with for rings. It's an interesting thought experiment. Good video!
Hold on a second, another youtuber I watch is here, that was unexpected
I like your video on this better Joe
I feel like a fucking genius watching this...
Kone brofist knowledge is power
knowledge to build a lamborghini xD
The Golden Core gameming
Kone brofist same lol
true
lets all admit, it would be pretty damn cool
mmmmmmm Nah
Cool? Yes but it would be one of the worst problems of a developing civilization could have that is if they bother investing in astronomy
no I don’t wanna admit it it would be bad
@@emperorpalpatine2957 it wouldnt really be bad cause they would be on equator and second, it would be easier to identify where we are, like a location method better than the stars, if were closer to the equator the rings would be a thin layer on the sky, or if youre on south or north, you would be able to see a thicc layer on the sky of pure nature
@@CitruZ. Sure we could survive but what I mean by a developing species is space travel specifically. That's when this attraction becomes a huge hindrance. Rogue material from the ring would likely smash anything we launch into orbit. However this could entice us to take a better look at our progression into space if we don't get demotivated by all our destroyed satellites and stations we could really be decently far ahead in our technology but I wouldn't go so far as to say we have permanent colonies on things like the moon yet.
"We're balls deep at this stage..." Lol
I'm imagining a civilisation on a ringed, rocky planet like this that endures colder conditions due to the long winters but is extremely technologically advanced, to the point where they are long past the level of technology earth humans needed to go into space, but they understand they are afraid to attempt to leave their planet a) due to the possibility of colliding with the rings and b) because they are unable to use space telescopes or other satellites to survey their star system, so they dont know what could be out there.
They could just put the communication devices on the rocks in the ring.
@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus the rocks in the rings would be far too small to support any level of infrastructure. So I'm afraid not.
At that point of development wouldn't we mine the rings for material? If they're silicate that seems really valuable
Hey, Vsauce! Michael H- Wait, this is the wrong video?!
***** lol
Craken I have a nerd crush on Michael's mind
definitely the most vsauce thumbnail and title ever used for a non-vsauce video
Its the wrong video
...
Rly lol
Turns out Earth once had rings durning the Middle Ordovician 466 million years ago. As there was a recent paper regarding the fact that several Middle Ordovicia, to quote the Paper "Here, we examine the paleolatitudes of 21 asteroid impact craters from an anomalous ∼40 m.y. period of enhanced meteor impact cratering known as the Ordovician impact spike, and find that all craters fall in an equatorial band at ≤30°, despite ∼70 % of exposed, potentially crater-preserving crust lying outside this band."
The name of the paper is called: Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician.
I just thought that you would find it interesting.
Three things:
1. Couldn't we use the solid debris of the rings to create signal beacons instead of satellites?
2. Could a ring, if at all possible, which it probably isn't, solve the issue of Global Warming?
3. Say rings existed and life were able to evolve, would humans and other animals be more highly nomadic during the winter months when the rings would cast a shadow? Wouldn't this change everything about humanity itself?
Well for # 2 I think that just give an excuse to leading ring mining operations for resources. Well if the rings have more water and completely new gases and heavy metals.
Brandon James
Point 1: angular momentum. They would most likely be rotating so we could only get a signal at specific points in the day.
Point 2: If they somehow were capable of staying together we would get weird life which would be adapted to both cold and hot. And I'm not completely sure about this but the land masses would have varying sea levels because if water did freeze because of the shadow of the rings it would make the land masses' sea levels drop ever so slightly and when they turn back into liquid they would rise. But it would be quite weird because at all times one side would be frozen so they wouldn't look the same as they do now.
Point 3: all life near the ring's shadows would be cold adapted and "hot" adapted. All life excluding deep sea life of course.
@@ej28 The rings would have nowhere near that sort of effect. Saturn's rings, when face-on, only block 5-12% of light, somewhat more at an angle. Also, much of the light is reflected, so Earth would still get a lot of that light, just on the night side. The rings would just add to the seasons, since they'd be tipped relative to the Sun.
@@isaachonzel9486 They wouldn't have water because it'd all sublimate this close to the sun.
Bible would have few extra pages explaining how god created rings in 3 days
Carl CIFER considering the font of the bible and that it would only be an extra sentence, nothing would change
Carl CIFER Wait what chapter and verse?
Carl CIFER lol bible is bullshit
Meta Meta O- Great Shut your mouth
Fernando The Doom Sword Jimenez Bible is fake asf
1:17 I find so kind of Artifexian to refer to the asteroid 48 Doris as a "She"
The first 100 asteroids are all named after female deities.
I hate that we must use gendered language :(
is a space rock ffs... it wouldn't even matter if he got the pronoum wrong
@@evershadowvii7848 why's that? Sailors affectionately call ships "she". Are you going to go to them and say "no,you are not allowed to personify your own possessions"?
"But hey, we are balls deep at this stage," ummm
As soon as i read that he was saying that
lol
+BoomPerson quote of the day
J
Why am i even listening to this when im only 10 years old?
Well earth is single
+Plat inum I think he doesn't married.
the earth is a girl how the hell do you think it has life
+CandyandFruit c: how can a non-living thing be categorized with a gender?
Agent Isaiah 2K the earth is alive though..
CandyandFruit c: So it has a heart, brain, stomach, etc.?
6:11 so no one is talking about that CGP Gray logo on the moon?
Well, it is kind of a _gray_ companion.
Something tells me he only called the moon 'gray' so he could make that reference. After all, the moon would always look white to us, even if there were a brighter object in the sky, like if it shines when the sun is still up, or there's an artificial light source that appears brighter.
It's CGP Grey, not CGP Gray. Learn how to spell properly.
Rea-
REALLY?!?
your criticizing someone just for spelling "gray" wrong
there care 2 types of grays, grey and gray
I use gray since I'm American
people have nationalities and differences
@@thespacedinos4037 "peaople have nationalities and differences" I know that, and do you know who ignores that/doesn't know that the most? Americans. They keep bullying me for spelling kolor "colour", even tho it's correct. And I think you are greatly misinformed here - CGP Grey is a name of a UA-camr. Not sure if it's his surname or something, but it's a propern noun. It's not gray. It's not grey. It's Grey. What would you say if someone mispelled your surname? Or called you "TheCapacityDinosaurs"? By the way I use szary, szarego, szaremu, szarym, szara, szarej, szarą, szare, szarego, szaremu, szarymi, szarych, szarzy, grey, gray, or Grau since I'm Polish and my third language is German.
imagine waking up
looking outside
seeing rings in the damn sky....
Hey, What if we somehow managed to place satellites onto the particles within the ring? Like particles on the inner or outer rims of it based on necessity... How do you think the satellites would hold up? Which also brings me to my next speculation: what if we made a one stop space course where we stop on a random/specific rock on the ring, and then launch again? Or even use ring-material post-fuel?
Because the way I see it, space flight as we know it today may have been developed completely differently due to the rings. These are human brains, after all. They'd find a way around it.
S S Utsho Chowdhury frequent collisions? Not sure whether that would happen or not though.
Good to have you back, Edgar
+Nikolaj Lepka Hey, Nickolaj. I really am sorry about the delay. I didn't expect this script to be as taxing as it ultimately was. Feel bad...
Artifexian
Hey it's fine, man. Take the time you need to get the highest quality content out there :D
+Nikolaj Lepka Thanks! I do admire the quality or quantity philosophy ala CGP Grey, Veritasium, Minutephysics, Smarter Everyday, Kurzgesagt (In a Nutshell) etc.
To much of youtube is based on the idea of "more is more", which saddens me.
Glad to know you're on board even if I need to take a few weeks to iron out a video. Thumbs up to you, good sir!
Artifexian hey I watch your channel for epic worldbuilding, not rushwork, keep up the good work :P
+Nikolaj Lepka Will do :)
Earth also had a ring long ago, but the ring debris mushed together and formed the moon (in theory)
Da Beast nice!
Da Beast that's a good theory
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm might explain craters?
Da Beast nice
Raina Singh craters were made by astroids and meteorites hitting the moons surface :[
Thank you so much for this video! It inspired me to create my own world, an Earth-like planet with two moons that, for whatever reason, got knocked into the Roche limit. Most of the matter was flung out into space, but what little remained turned into rings. This was basically an apocalypse. Some of the debris was flung _towards_ the planet. The loss of the moons meant the loss of tides and tidal ecosystems. The rings' shadow caused extreme winters, leaving the temperate zones permanently glaciated. Most of the survivors fled to equatorial regions. Signs of life with moons and tides and stars still remain in their culture, traditions, and mythologies but are now little more than legends.
There's also magic involved, as I'm pretty sure humanity would go extinct without it.
6:17 why is there CGP Grey's Symbol coming up in the moon?
Get the jo--
I don't know whg
My head hurt just for watching that MATH part.
same dude
thinkwisegt victorino you must be dumb
3 Equations... How did you survive school?
I like Math.
Earth's having rings might have made our prehistoric climate colder and made life impossible, but in the future as the sun continues to grow hotter having such rings created artificially over time might be a way to help keep the earth cool enough to support life for much longer - perhaps even until the sun swells up into a red giant. That would be... uh... *cool*!
+Jason Toddman, honestly, by the way and numbers we are sending satellites for whatever reason we deem fit, in a few thousand (or even several hundred) years we could witness the birth of some manmade metallic rings around our planet. What do you think?
+Mark Said I think it would be disastrous. Not only would space travel become too dangerous long before such rings would form, but eventually falling debris would make hazardous artificial meteor storms like the ones shown on the TV series Smallville.
My earlier comment was btw tongue-in-cheek; not something I would seriously consider desirable. At least, not until spacecraft tech becomes sophisticated enough so that avoiding such debris is as routine and as easy as a motorboat dodging coral reefs.
Jason Toddman, I did understand that your comment was a tongue-in-cheek, and that made me grin, but soon after a thought crossed my mind and became concerned about all the material and junk that we are truly surrounding our beloved planet with. That is why I posted that comment.
+Mark Said Hopefully we'll be wise enough to deal with it before it becomes a real problem. At least the magnitude of the problem is becoming widely known now, which is a good start.
Jason Toddman , very true. It could be highly expensive but several decades in the future, instead of digging and destroying the ground to mine for metals they can orbit the globe and pick up a lot of the junk from there and reuse it.
They would look cool as fuck.
Ikr
No shit
but the impact maybe ruin our earth's orbit , something terrible might be happen if the asteroid clash with earth.
although a huge appocalypse on earth would be happen in the same time.
lol never gets old what if I told you there's a ring around Uranus
(Lenny)
Actually. When sitting on cultus toiletus, you have a second ring with a gap.
Ura-nus????? Ok im out
Ouranus.
my anus would be happy
I assume the rings would reflect enough light at night so that most regions wouldn't have much of a "night" at all? What would happen if Earth was close enough to a nebula which would likewise presumably light things up at night? Would it be enough to safely travel at night ?
Hey Edgar! Your recent upload sent me on an adventure through your older stuff, and I found this one again. I've been taking a Planetary Science class at my university, and unfortunately some of the science in this video is wrong. The worldbuilding is actually perfectly fine, which is the point (as you mentioned in another recent video, this is a worldbuilding channel, not a science channel), but I thought I'd jump down here to clear up the scientific side of things.
The Roche Limit only applies to strengthless bodies. It is derived by equating the gravitational force of the planet, and the gravitational force holding two objects together, and assumes that there are no other forces holding the smaller object togethrer, like chemical bonds, or rebar. As such, if (for example) the moon were to cross its Roche limit with earth, it wouldn't actually break apart, because it has more than just gravity holding it together. Mostly chemical bonds; there may be rebar in there somewhere, but I'm doubtful.
So, to make rings like you talk about in this video, you would need to make sure to use a strengthless body. Funny thing about that is there are plenty of strengthless bodies to go around.
You see, if you spin something fast enough, the forces involved will tear it apart. If you equate these forces to the gravitational forces that would hold together a strengthless body, you can find the maximum rotational period for strengthless bodies: about two hours.
And if you look at the rotational periods of known asteroids and compare it to asteroid radius, you'll find pretty quickly that none of the big ones rotate any faster than two hours. Meaning that anything in the asteroid belt that's big, but not big enough to be a dwarf planet, is a flying pile of rubble-a strengthless body..
So, chucking a sizable asteroid across it's Roche limit with earth to make some rings, like you did in this video, works perfectly fine for making a terrestrial ring system. You just jumped over a few steps, is all.
Darn. There goes my idea for rings formed from a supermassive ship getting too close to a planet. Thanks for the clarification!
Did he just say "We're balls deep at this stage"? O_o
+Damian Mee He did!
+Artifexian I laughed, a lot , probably as I'm irish too
So if earth had rings it would be FUCKING AWESOME
Grade's Mum is your son dead again?
Winged Wolf lol
I am a little bit jealous of that magnificent beard of yours
+Wessel Stienstra I'm at little jealous of your pink complexion and you're green and purple trunks...very fetching. :P
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The ending (stargate) just made my day....thank you so much!!!!! And as always... another great and extremely helpful video!
I remember watching this video when I was 7, ignoring the voices and those maths and focused on the images lol
Science and math has never been so awesome to watch
Loved the video. I wish you could have put some scale into it, though. The distance of the moon in comparison to the rings, and the distance of the space station (that flies way closer than most satellites, as far as I know).
I don't think artificial satellites would be an issue, like the video said, astronomy would be way more advanced by now, by the way.
+Enkii Muto Some good criticisms there. The video probably would have been better with more scale work. Will bare that in mind next time I do something like this.
The orbit of the IS is technically within our atmosphere. IIRC its orbit decays by about 2 km per month due to atmospheric drag. Which is kinda mind bendy to think about.
Ah, yes, naked eye astronomy perhaps...but maybe when it comes to upgrading to aided astronomy problems would begin to set in. Ground based astronomy is already difficult enough when the moon is out in full. Add in an ever present ring system and there would definitely be complications.
I think the need to get satellites into orbit would be even more pressing on a ringed planet. But again it's all just rampant speculation.
Artifexian Thank you for answering to my comment =)
I'm aware of it being basically in our atmosphere, which is why I think it would rise questions of where the rings would begin, and how humans could possibly us less satellites and invest in efficiency to work before they find the rings.
Anyway, I do hope to see one day an episode of double planets, especially when we receive more info from New Horizon's mission. And well, scale would be a key factor there. Thank you for the attention ^^
True, haven't considered that. By the way, do you think humans would use the rings as a tool for astronomy besides the ones in the video? First thing that game into my mind is that their orbit and spokes would offer measures for GPS calculations, and while probably not the best method, this is something they would try.
Also, Saturn is big, I was waiting for you to mention how fragile they would be for an earth-sized planet regardless of the moon, like the effect of annual meteor showers would have on them. But this is just asking too much XD
Anyway, good work as always, keep the good job.
+Enkii Muto Well, tracking the shadow of the earth on the rings relative to the stars would make for a super accurate night time clock. Just to throw that out there. Not GPS but still a cool point.
Hmm...I should have talked about meteors. Didn't cross my mind at all...
Alas, I am but one dude.
Artifexian An awesome one dude XD Relax.
Should've had a Banana to scale
Hey, everyone. A kind redditor took some pics inside Space Engine based on the parameters covered in this video. Check them out. Very cool stuff.
►Earth Rings from Mare Orientale: i.imgur.com/vJmJHqv.jpg
►From Geo Stationary Orbit: i.imgur.com/EaHi4jC.jpg
►Moonset over the Atlantic as seen from the Straits of Gibraltar: i.imgur.com/QsEEWN0.jpg
It's worth noting that he had no control over the procedurally generated gaps in the rings. Enjoy!
+Artifexian Ancient traditions teach that the spirits of the dead join their ancestors in the Great Arc. The ancestors gave them the gift of wisdom from the gods through the Great Arc, allowing them to develop calculus in their early history, industrialize within about a decade, and develop interstellar travel within a few generations. Isn't it wonderful how one brief discussion of what Earth might be like under slightly different conditions can snowball into building entire alien cultures?
well what if the moon formed too close and formed those rings? Also, how does then sun and moon affect the rings? The rings aren't inside their rosche limit except maybe the moon. And for satellites, put em on the ring!
well what if the moon formed too close and formed those rings? Also, how does then sun and moon affect the rings? The rings aren't inside their rosche limit except maybe the moon. And for satellites, put em on the ring!
+Artifexian 6:16
CGP GREY MOON!
+Artifexian They can't be organic :p
If Earth had Rings.
Answer: Saturn would be really mad that earth stoled it and bought it for 10000$
Dude, subscribing to your patreon was the best idea I've had in a while. I don't know how I missed this video, but it's great!
You forgot one thing. For a space travelling civilization it is really handy to have a few billion billion tons of material in their home planet's orbit. A space station, positioned inside the rings, would orbit at the exact same speed as the rocks so collisions wouldn't be a hazard. And then there's all the free material around which you can use to build spaceships, and they don't need to be launched into space, because that's where they were built!
Of course, we have the Moon ... but it is quite far away and it is so large that its gravity is an issue, while the gravity of rocks in rings is negligible.
But how and why would a space station be built inside of the rings in the first place? It just seems more practical and less risk involved with building a space station in a lower orbit. Also, to build spacecraft from the rings, you would need to have large processing plants orbiting inside the rings, which would be highly dangerous to even build in the first place, let alone maintain them.
Geoffrey Brunell It is actually possible to design a pretty efficient path into orbit, where you do not encounter the rings until the very end of the path, and you encounter them at a very low speed of a few m/s. You need to launch into a slightly inclined orbit and approach the rings from above or from bellow.
It is true however that you would need quite a lot of stuff up there to start building new things. It would take something much larger than the ISS. Possibly with artificial gravity and whatnot.
Also, I hope the next station we build after the ISS will have artificial gravity. That would make many human-in-space issues a thing of the past.
RedsBoneStuff But what would be the point of having a space station within the rings in the first place? Even the ISS orbits far lower than where the hypothetical Earth rings are.
Geoffrey Brunell Well, I guess it wouldn't make sense to build that station until you had technology to use the rocks and construct stuff in orbit. But once you can, it would be far cheaper than launching spaceships from the ground.
could you revisit the torus planet from a culture point of view? ie. what would a culture which evolved on a torus planet be like?
+TheNerd484 Perhaps...can't make any promises.
Spotting exo planets would be a massive pain in the ass.
Martin Boylan Kepler is outside earth orbit. But maybe Hubble would have trouble.
6:32 Summers in Alaska can be as low as -40 degrees (F and C) and I think that one factor to human survival in extreme temperatures could be the thickness of the clothing, i.e. people would probably wear parkas, etc. during Alaskan winters.
Could you make a video about climates on a planet with rings?
The mythological implications would be interesting indeed. Just think about how the Greeks and Romans viewed the celestial bodies. For a time, they literally believed the sun was Apollo's chariot. I also know Artemis/Diana was the goddess of the moon, and that Luna was the direct embodiment of the moon. They'd have extra gods for the rings, and the moon goddesses might be different. Also, the fact that the rings appear differently at different parts of the world would mean something also. Equatorial civilizations might believe the sky is split in half or something.
+Nethaniel Shade The possiblities are endless. They could also be seen as the "path of the dead". The road you must walk to the afterlife. We would definitely come up with a ton of interesting stories for them.
Oh I really like that one, too! Makes me want to write a story about it xD
Rename the vid to: If Earff had Rings
Eartt*
+Kick The Baby earrr**
erfff lol
uh uh yeah babe
URF?
A story scenario based on this would be interesting, a highly knowledgeable civilization prevented from engaging in space travel because of rings. Apparently, civilizations developing on superearths might have the same problem because rocket propulsion mightn't be enough to escape their gravity.
alright, you convinced me, my d&d world will have rings
I discovered this channel in September 2016. I can't believe it's almost been 6 years.
Interesting video, however I think you are mistaken regarding how the rings would effect spaceflight. Your theoretical Earth ring begins at 10,000km and extends to ~21,500km. That's mostly overlaps the outer Van Allen belt. These ring particles might be an issue for the highest GPS satellites which orbit between the two radiation belts, but the geostationary satellites reside at about 36,000km. Which is beyond the end of the outer belt. And of course the latitudes these rings occupy would be minuscule compared to the latitudes covered by the radiation belts, which satellites need to stay above or below or between them. So I'd be more concerned about the radiation belts than I would be about the rings.
Earth Will one day have rings, rings of trash
People are so discusting plastic bottles and waste metals will orbit earth creating rings
+gamer moments why do you think I discard my bottles at earth escape velocity? To get cool rings of course!
+Benjamin Antman to get discusting wasteful rings
gamer moments
disgustingly glorious ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
school teaches you 2+2=4 but gives a problem like this 😓😑😐WTF
Thor Lighting
i like that one
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God dammit I don't need school IM IN AFICRA ;-; help meh
ElfyThe GamingElf , where is aficra?
ariana marques Nowhere
+ElfyThe GamingElf Yes because I never went to school -_- I live in South Africa and have never set foot outside it's borders. One of the first universities were actually built in Africa (albeit then referring to the African province [Northern Africa] or Egypt (as a separate thing).
Earth made a bad horrible joke to the sun and it took its ring
Do I get to keep
Mine?
This video got me hooked very quickly, such a marvelous thing to imagine
How small would the ring particles be? Like 9 meters, pebbles, breadcrumbs, dust...
I googled Saturn's ring. Its particles are "from centimeters to about 10 m". But they are made of water so I guess that this tells us nothing about Earth's silicate ring.
WORMHOLES WOULD BE SO COOL
*cough Voltron cough*
McWrack ikr
There are worms holes
Yeah. 😂
NO IT WOULDN'T!!! U WOULD GET STUCK IN TIME!!! ALSO GET STUCK IN FUTURE OR IN THE PAST!!!
i wish we had a ring lol. what a sight.
I rather enjoy the wonders satellite
NEVER!!!
+brandon downs
Watch Yetidynamics who envisions and simulates such things in the sky
No way. Didn't you hear what he said would happen if we did?
no TV m8
You can have a world that has such a high obliquity that the shadows cast by the rings (orbiting at the frozen equator) never pass onto the surface of the planet, giving you a habitable polar region without the seriously harsh winters. maybe the effect isn't that great though?
On the other hand, since high obliquity worlds tend to have already highly variable seasons, you could craft a ring system that orbits in such a way that the blisteringly hot seasonal effects of summer are tempered by the cooling effect of the rings. the rings would have to orbit a few degrees off the poles and they would drift towards the equator with time, but they could exist this way (maybe for a few hundred thousand, maybe even a few million years if the planet has an earthlike spin and they could last longer if the planet has a slower spin.
maybe your story starts a few years after an asteroid entered your world's roach limit, showering the planet with crazy meteor showers and coating the world in iron-rich meteors? I'm not sure how long rings take to form. In Saturn's case, it had a stable satellite system and a smaller ring system about 100 mya, according to Google. But the orbital overlap of its moons caused collisions that may have formed the current rings. so set this as your upper limit on ring formation and take a guess.
These videos are incredibly helpful when playing Universe Sandbox and trying to create realistic solar systems.
there's also the drift of rings. interestingly, that math would show Saturn (and pretty much all others in our system with rings) are much younger than most speculate.
great vid
What if the moon had rings? Would we see the moon like a model of saturn? Or would it be another story? :|
Yes. Please tell us lol
I think the earth's gravity would likely scatter the rings.
If Moon had a ring it wouldn't be as close to Earth and in fact will be very far away. There will be negligible attraction. This is because the Earth would assume that the Moon was already married. Ok, I'll show myself out.
Kawaii Chan it's not possible the moon doesn't have air therefore it has no atmosphere
@@jonathanrobles376 what does the atmosphere have anything to do with rings? If anything having little to no atmosphere would make it easier to have rings.
dose size really matter if there geologicly stable and nturally occuring?
Wouldn't the rings not only shade the hemisphere in winter but also reflect a whole bunch of light that would of otherwise helped warm the hemisphere in winter onto the hemisphere in summer? So not only extra cold winters but extra hot summers.
Damn , l was 10 when this vid was.released ,.now l am 20 it still makes me exited to watch it as it were a new vid .
The satellite issue is actually easy. Instead of free floating satellites, you attach them to the rocks in the rings. Getting out of the ring is still hard, but you can use the rings as a sort of halfway point between the earth and the moon. Protecting the satellites would be harder, true, but that's not an impossible task.
you're a pretty good artist...
+Chandler Campbell Cheers, buddy. Glad you like my little blobby aliens and cartoon planets :)
Anyone else see the CGPGrey logo at 6:15?
Yes!
+Iaiz C CGPGrey owns the moon!
Why is it there?
Iaiz C yeah
I did
there's nothing more I hate when people say something is impossible, especially in the realm of science. if we humans would have a better understanding of astronomy due to terrestrial rings, there's no reason for us not to develop alternative ways to get to space, heck maybe even earlier than we did on an earth without rings.
I remember when this was his latest video, and it ended up in my recommended despite never watching any of his videos.
that stargate reference litterally just made my day
Hey, I saw that CGP Grey logo at 6:14. What are you hiding?
+SpacePod9 Haha true!
CGP Grey logo at 6:16
Well if you like it put a ring on it...
My new favourite uploader. Love it pal
before watching this I thought, "wow, Earth with rings! wouldn't that be cool?" But after watching this I thought, "umm, maybe it isn't such a good idea to have rings".
The way he pronounces earth sounds like "-ert"...like instead of saying,"can I ask you a question", it would sound more like "can I axe you a question?"..
No, it is correct, that is how the 'TH' sound is pronounced here.
It depends on where you come from he can't do anything about
I **THINK** in another video he stated he was from Ireland (or somewhere up there) and his accent makes him make the /t/ and /d/ sounds instead of the /θ/ and /ð/ sounds.
6:15 look at the moon
Stargates, yes.
+John Laird Actually, have never watched Stargate. Am currently finishing off all the Star treks. Might give Stargate a go after. I hear it's very good.
+Artifexian if you don't mind kinda bad cgi, but overall it is a very good series.
+John Laird Meh, if the storytelling is good then I can get past poor cgi. Looking forward to it :)
+Artifexian good
SG1 SGA SGU were (and still are) great! should really give them a try, the SGU CGI isn't all that bad. 😃
I just found an Irish guy talking science and crazy theoretical concepts. +1 like
This was interesting. Thank you for your time and thoughts. You earned a subscriber, Edgar. ☺️
im going to make my own rings :D
MARS good luck tryin
***** nope,he wont
Maybe convince Ceres to come and get crushed in your gravity?
Me too!
Sedna nope i will do it first
CPG GREY!
also seen that.
+savyers What? Where? :P
+Artifexian Moon ;)
+StuffAndThingss Ah, I see it now. Thanks, now that I'm in on the joke I feel all cool n stuff. :P
hi
Damn he's cute looking
Well having a ring on Earth would have made such a nice wallpaper for sure
every time I see the intro I more and more see artifexian written in those slashes and circles
8:28 BETTER HOLLOWEEN!
Earth does have rings,but we can not see the rings
I have a question, are they invisible in space? Or are they Visible?
+Mark Brickowski they are not visible to our eyes but they are there because when the moon was being created after the impact of Earth and Emphis the debris created the moon but some of the debris did not get in the moon's gravity to get the moon bigger.That is also why the Earth is not round,but egg-like
+Stanley vs Lily thx
Stanley vs Lily thats space junk
@@stoob_9936 you are miss informed. There would be soo little left over it wouldn't form a ring. Plus the moon would have thrown it all out at it was extremely close to earth when it was formed. We'd also detect them, we're able to detect Jupiter's rings and it's millions of miles away.
Canada/australia the ring timelines space fairing capital
Man I would watch anything just because your voice and accent make it sound 1000x more interesting.
Hey Artifexian! Great video! I do have a question though:
With an Iron or Silicate based ring system I imagine that the density of the ring material would create a bit of a gravitational or tidal pull on the Earth similarly to the Moon. Would it be possible for such rings to replace the Moon?
MATH........
I don't know this shit...
Earth had a ring. It turned into the Moon.
lol
Team awesome fist I'm serious!
Hodoss I know lol
how
PainfulHail13 4 I know but I'm not telling unless
Back to school! Earth has also rings but they are extremely small.
We're refering to big rings.
I get it
Please make a video about what culture on Earth would be like if Earth was a Moon Around a Gas Giant Planet 8Jupiter Mass's?
Love the Stargate reference! Thank you for giving me a little perspective over whether or not to include a ring on the planet my story takes place on.
When you started explaining with math.... you kinda lost me 😂. TBH I'm just sitting here like, "huh... density, radius, earth with rocks. Seems pretty cool"
I'm new on this channel, and i gotta ask; is he Irish?
yes
Tikknes
Obviously
+Panic! At My Chemical Phandom its weird and annoying, he doesnt seem to speak neither american no irish accent, its like a weird hybrid of the two, i find it really annoying
+Du Duu He's speaks one of the many Irish accents. There is no way that his accent resembles the standard American accent.
dang ten "tousand" km deep
drekslar?
Is it possible to create a habitable planet using rings? Could they supplement a large rocky moon? Like how hard would it be for humans, animal, plants, and fish to survive on a planet without a moon but instead large rings?
Rings have no relevant mass and could never create tides and won’t stabilise a planet. So life would be very very unlikely, but since this is worldbuilding you can just ignore that.
@@arnouth5260 Does that mean a earthlike planet could have a moon, rings, and support life?
@@2ndClassNerd yes, it could.
im curious as to who banged those to ecistance