Rings around planet Earth By Su Yin Khoo, November 24, 2009 @ 9:24 am http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT2sQ7KIQ-E What would Earth look like if it had a ring system like Saturn? Pretty spiffy, that's what. Share this on Delicious Digg Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Twitter Comments James Fleming November 24, 2009 @ 1:53 pm Nice animation of an old idea.Fig. 7.3. Saturn-like ring of reflective particles launched into Earth orbit to warm the Arctic. Source: Rusin N.P. and L.A. Flit. Man Versus Climate. Moscow: Peace Publishers, 1960, cover.http://www.colby.edu/sts/fixing_new_september2009/10%20Figures/fig.7.3%20RusinFlitRings.jpgFrom James Rodger Fleming, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control (Columbia University Press, 2010). Anonymous comments on this post are disabled. Please sign up to post a new comment. Tagged as astronomy » design » animation »
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Nice animation of an old idea.
Fig. 7.3. Saturn-like ring of reflective particles launched into Earth orbit to warm the Arctic. Source: Rusin N.P. and L.A. Flit. Man Versus Climate. Moscow: Peace Publishers, 1960, cover.
http://www.colby.edu/sts/fixing_new_september2009/10%20Figures/fig.7.3%20RusinFlitRings.jpg
From James Rodger Fleming, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control (Columbia University Press, 2010).
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