This made me tear up. I think it was the music.

[kateorman]

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[judiang]

Wow, that turned out to be fascinating. And yes, Ave Maria never fails to move me.

[tysolna]

Wow, what a great idea (and great music, too...)

What I'd like to know is how humanity would have turned out if the ring had been there - what would religion be like, for instance?

[bardling]

Very cool link & very interesting question indeeed.... Thank you both & pbristow, who pointed me here. )

[pbristow]

Wow! =:oO Thankyou.

(At first I was baffled. There's a funny cacheing problem between Firfox and Flash/YouTube whereby an embedded video link shows up as the first frame of one that I've played sometime before. On this occasion, it was weirder than usual: When I started playing the video, it actually *was* this one that played, and I thought "Huh? Kate teared up to *this* music?" =8o}

Opening your post in a separate tab has cured the problem. =:o} )

[kelemvor]

Two other friends have posted this. One of them now wants to live on a planet with a ring system; the other reckons that we all need to write to Obama to ask him to blow up the moon so that we can have one!

[leyenn]

That was awesome! I'm so glad I could see it this time, the last time I saw this linked it crashed my PC all the time. I so want to see an alternate history of a ringed Earth now!