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Rings around planet Earth

What would Earth look like if it had a ring system like Saturn? Pretty spiffy, that's what.

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James Fleming

November 24, 2009 at 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.jpg

From James Rodger Fleming, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control (Columbia University Press, 2010).

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