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Earth: The Ring World

Posted by michael on from the pocket-full-of-posies dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sandia Labs is reporting on the 100,000 years or so when the Earth might have had a debris ring like Saturn. They need the rings to help explain climatic shifts and after all, what happened to all those ejected rocks when the larger meteors hit the Earth?"

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  1. So basically... by YanceyAI · · Score: 3, Insightful
    These guys don't have any real proof nor even claim a likelihood that there were rings. They just say it could have happened. It's one of many possible explainations for what might have caused some of Earth's atmospheric changes.

    I guess that's one way to get published.

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  2. that's not a Ringworld by melee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Okay, so the title isn't all one word, but I still maintain that simply having a ring doesn't make one a Ringworld. You have to be a ring, in the full Larry Niven-sense. You don't call something a Discworld that just has a disc, do you?