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[url= http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75e_1258653471 ]Thought I'd share. Pretty awesome, it seems :D[/url]
Im sold. Who do we have to talk to to get them installed?
Me too.........can't we dumped a load of hardcore to orbit earth ?
at £40 a tonne?
Who do you think will pay for that? Higher rate tax payers I suppose.
I reckon we need corporate sponsorship. Maybe Hula Hoops or Polo.
How about the landfill stuff then ? We're running out of space for that. No corporate advertising billboards on Earth's Rings though please.
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Me too.........can't we dumped a load of hardcore to orbit earth ?
Are you really advocating intergalactic distribution of gentertainment?
What a 'Porn Ring' round Earth Flash ? .......... no I guess not 😐
Although I would be interested in knowing where Stoner gets his porn at £40 a tonne ?
That's fab.
Two questions:
- what is the "Roche limit" that determines the size of the rings in his model?
- would the rings would cast a shadow over part of the planet's surface during the day, and would that shadow be fixed over a particular latitude or would it move? (Obviously a fixed shadow would be pretty inconvenient for the people under it, but I can't work out whether that would happen)
i rarely watch videos that people pos, but i really liked that - i say we get them, or a conservatory
Can't see the video, (no Flash), but if we carry on chucking stuff up into LEO and Clark orbits, we're going to end up with junk rings anyway.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit ]Roche Limit[/url]
I want rings. I want them NOW.
40 quid a tonne for hardcore?
your being ripped off!
30 quid a tonne for MOT type 1, and "generic hardcore/scalpings" should be considerably cheaper
as for the rings, its a yes vote from me 🙂
sign a petition? maybe we can try and impress saturns rings enough and they will want to encompass us instead..... suggestions?
Couldn't we just blow up the moon and use the bits. Moons are dead common really a ring would be a big improvement. I've also got quite a bit of hardcore on the drive at the moment that I'd be willing to contribute.
Dreadful music.
TBH I would be a bit worried about the effects of the rings on the world's tidal systems.
I don't think 'blowing up the moon' would help much in that respect 😐
A very sensible point.
Could we have an informed opinion on the shadow issue as well?
It's all very well this, but I can see things getting carried away - they'll be a Facebook group, an e-petition and before you know it it'll be in someone's manifesto.
if we put all the hardcore on the internet end to end (fnarr) in a line i'm sure it would go round the world plenty of times
Rings would have zero effect on tides as they are evenlly distributed around the earth, the net gravitational pull is zero.
There would be a constant shadow that would move with the seasons, so near the equator you might be in shadow for long periods of the year 🙁
I want to start up one of those Number10 petitions to get those puppies installed asap.
does anyone [i]actually[/i] want to start an e-petition and get as many as we can to sign it, for a laugh...?
Put my name down. I'm in....
DrP
Put's the Wembley arch to shame!!
[i]i rarely watch videos that people pos, but i really liked that - i say we get them, or a conservatory [/i]
From recent experience I'd say it'd be quicker to install the rings.
We soon will have a ring system if them yanks keep nuking the moon !
Jupiter and Neptune also have faint rings, IIRC, so I'm up for a nice set of rings where we can get to see them properly. Count me in.
It would be like living on Halo 1.
Well yes blowing up the moon might stop the tides but just imagine watching it go bang. And given enough time it might put itself back together again, after all it started as as a pile of hardcore orbiting the earth.
Installation would be relatively simple. All we need to do is get as many people as possible throwing rocks, stones, gravel etc up into the sky. Throw it hard enough and it should work.
One problem though...what about all the satellites orbiting the Earth?
Why go for boring standard rings when with a bit of imagination you can get some that are a little different.
If the proposed rings are constructed from old bits of glass this will reduce the shadow problem whilst more importantly introduce a funky glittering rainbow effect.