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NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid. (science.nasa.gov)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Earth gets a debris ring, which will look sick. But then we lose the tides and have a couple hundred years of meteor showers. And we get to rebuild our satellite system from scratch.

/uneducated guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now I wish we had rings like Saturn

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People have done renders of what that might look like from the surface.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/v2/t:0,l:612,cw:1575,ch:1575,q:80,w:1575/ESqn5BjKnnB2Ermd3nAY8J.jpg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Super interesting to visualize, thank you !