Never actually saw the movie, but in the trailers for Pitch Black there were process shots of this big Saturn-like world with three rings - stacked on top of each other.

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I'm happy somebody else noticed this. I never saw the whole flick either, just snippets, and wasn't entirey sure I saw what I thought I saw. There was another thread about BA in Pitch Black a while back and I was gonna toss this one in there (Ring systems whose planes don't pass through the center of the planet? How does that work?) but figgered I'd skip it.

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#-o

http://www.pitcherblacker.com/pb/caps/0082.jpg

It really caused a quite a bit of , :x and #-o followed by a silent "Oh please..." while watching the scene...

Is there any way a ring could have formed inclined with respect another ring? Or do we know enough about ring formation to even guess? Assuming that a ring might form from a broken up moon, do moons always orbit a planet in the same plane?

No, they don't have to all be in the same plane, but I always thought that the plane of a stable orbit had to intersect the system's center of mass.

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I don't see a reason why you couldn't have two rings at different angles, as long as both planes passed through the center of mass. I suspect that they wouldn't remain that way for long, though, as tidal effects would eventually bring them into the same plane. And of course, they would have to have different radii (not overlap), or the particles would collide frequently and the rings would merge.

There's just... too... many!

But, off the top of my head, I'd have to say Battlefield Earth. There are many, many (many) "bads" in there. But my favorite has to be this:

1) The aliens come from a different planet
2) On that planet, the air reacts violently with "radiation"
3) During the establishing shot of the alien's planet, one can clearly see in the background a sun.

So, I suppose that must be one of those special edition non-radioactive suns. Y'know, the kind that doesn't produce any "radiation". Since the planet would explode otherwise. (blink)

One of my favorite bits was in Plan 9 from Outer Space. The aliens are talking about how mankind is advancing in technology, having just achieved obtaining energy from the atom, and they say eventually humanity will learn to harness energy from the sun's rays, which are, apparently, composed of many atoms (??). He says that harnessing the sun's rays is very dangerous, and uses the analogy of a tank of gas being the sun, and a dripping puddle extending from the tank being Earth's orbit. Starting a fire out there would of course cause the whole tank to go up in flames. So apparently setting fire to the sun's rays will cause the sun to explode, and destroy "THE WHOLE UNIVERSE!!!" I'm not really sure how this is supposed to work, if there's an invisible tow cable of radiation connecting our planet to the sun or what. It isn't said where the aliens come from, but it seems pretty clear it isn't anywhere in our solar system. So our particular sun must be pretty important or we have a huge gap in our understanding of space if the sun catching fire (??) means the entire universe is destroyed.