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Re:What If The Moon Were Replaced By Other Planets? by arscan on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @08:51AM (#5945652)
What if the earth had rings like Saturn:

http://io9.com/if-earth-had-a-ring-like-saturn-508750253

The author describes how bright they would be at night and what they would look like at different locations on the planet.

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Re:What If The Moon Were Replaced By Other Planets? by morsch on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @10:38AM (#5946322)
Wow, now I will never be able to look the same way at our boring, ringless sky.
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Re:What If The Moon Were Replaced By Other Planets? by arethuza on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @11:34AM (#5946696)
Or give up on those boring planet things and just live on the ring itself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_%28The_Culture%29

[NB I prefer Culture Orbitals to Niven Rings - largely due to everything else being in the Culture would imply.]

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Re:What If The Moon Were Replaced By Other Planets? by pavel_lishin on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @11:40AM (#5946725)
Plus, I think that if you strip away all the Culture magic-tech, their orbitals are still more plausible than Niven's Unobtanium-Brand scrith.
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