The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXI
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madviking
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I have a very good friend that I met in senior year of high school. Let's call her X.
For the first 18 or so years of my live, I'd never met anyone named X.
Then I met her.
Fast forward to a few months ago. I met not one, but two new people named X. I had a weird mindscrew. I automatically assumed they were like my friend from high school (which they weren't). So my mind became pretty confused.
Has this happened to anyone else?
For the first 18 or so years of my live, I'd never met anyone named X.
Then I met her.
Fast forward to a few months ago. I met not one, but two new people named X. I had a weird mindscrew. I automatically assumed they were like my friend from high school (which they weren't). So my mind became pretty confused.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Quackers
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nope, not stupeed 
Nope, hasn't happened yet.
I'd say no. The rings rotate with the planet, so you get one ring at the ...er...the equivalent of the equator, because there the ...you know...rotation...gravity.
The other rings just could not form, because the centripetal force just isn't there at this plane.
I'd say no. The rings rotate with the planet, so you get one ring at the ...er...the equivalent of the equator, because there the ...you know...rotation...gravity.
The other rings just could not form, because the centripetal force just isn't there at this plane.
Borachio
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Oh yeah. I get hung up by names all time. But it doesn't mean anything. Names are arbitrary.
I also get hung up by numbers. Especially telephone numbers featuring 3's and multiples of 3's. But also 5's. And sometimes 2's. Or prime numbers.
All of it arbitrary crap.
I think it's called superstitious thinking. Don't worry about it, I'd say.
hobbsyoyo
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That doesn't stop comets, asteroids, moons and Pluto from orbiting with crazy eccentricities just like those rings.
Or sattelites for that matter.
madviking
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Here you go, comrade.
madviking
north american scum
You should be.
There are plenty of bomber hats and ushanka things that don't have the hammer and sickle.
Got a nice one for Chanukah.
Borachio
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Onions. Or a kick in the nuts.
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If there are two rings, I expect they would collide, right?
They are in the first picture posted.
I think the range where rings are possible is also pretty small, and even if rings do not collide they will still have some interactions (gravitational) if they are close. I think it's hard for such a system to be stable.
I think the range where rings are possible is also pretty small, and even if rings do not collide they will still have some interactions (gravitational) if they are close. I think it's hard for such a system to be stable.
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Ring sytems are all inherently unstable - they usually form from the break up of a moon due to tidal forces or are the debris accumulated from the constant expulsion of ejecta from volcanos on moons or a very big impact. They do not last - saturns rings are relatively new and will dissappear in quickly on the geological scale. (oh and moons interact with ring systems more than another ring would due to their size, this happens in our system and actually somewhat stabilize them, so I don't think a double ring would cause big problems)
I thought on this and though it may appear to be really hard to happen, a double ring system may not be that weird. All of the gas giants have rings (though only saturn's are spectacular), so out of the trillions of planets out there, I am sure double rings can't be that novel.
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