Except, there'd be less people
No people in fact
Cause we'd all be dead
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/12/close_encounter_what_if_saturn_swung_by_earth.html
says, "Saturn has a mass nearly 100 times that of Earth, so it has an immense gravitational attraction. As it drew near, Saturn’s gravity would create utter havoc here on Earth, and vice versa. Nick couldn’t really depict that in the video, but we can think through the ramifications here. Hint: It doesn’t end well for us.
For example, long before it even got here, Saturn would toss the Moon right out of Earth's orbit. Its gravity would influence the Moon more than Earth does, and in any three-object encounter like this, the lowest mass object loses. The Moon would be ejected, probably to go into a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun … which could eventually recross the Earth’s orbit, leading to a potentially very bad future scenario. Not that it would matter, really ... but I get ahead of myself."
So there's that.
Edit: quotation marks.
It is if you have a Wierd sexual fetish for large forces applied to your chest through the destruction of a buildings and concrete blocks
But hey, whatever boats your goat
No people in fact
Cause we'd all be dead
says, "Saturn has a mass nearly 100 times that of Earth, so it has an immense gravitational attraction. As it drew near, Saturn’s gravity would create utter havoc here on Earth, and vice versa. Nick couldn’t really depict that in the video, but we can think through the ramifications here. Hint: It doesn’t end well for us.
For example, long before it even got here, Saturn would toss the Moon right out of Earth's orbit. Its gravity would influence the Moon more than Earth does, and in any three-object encounter like this, the lowest mass object loses. The Moon would be ejected, probably to go into a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun … which could eventually recross the Earth’s orbit, leading to a potentially very bad future scenario. Not that it would matter, really ... but I get ahead of myself."
So there's that.
Edit: quotation marks.
Way to go sciency man!
To a dark and painful future *clinks glass*
But hey, whatever boats your goat