Persistent impact to ring systems?

[Buji]

Watching the latest Wonders of the galaxy video, and I was blown away by the images of the capital ship crashing through a ring system (url below should take you right to that part). Which piqued my curiosity about the permanence of ring system damage, and resource exhaustion.

Are we to expect that within the first year that heavy metal ring systems would be 'mined out' or their capacity diminished? Is this even calculated similar to starport resource availability?

Also, in the event of a large scale ring system disturbance like the one pictured in this video (at the 3:01 mark), is that going to be permanent? Semi permanent? I would assume that these ring systems are relatively delicate formations that hav taken thousands of years to form just so, and without a rapid renewal process they should show wear and tear like tracks in virgin snow.

[video=youtube;PgYDK_uKHEg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgYDK_uKHEg[/video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgYDK_uKHEg#t=181

 

[Cosmo Bozo]

It isn't a disturbance in the ring system, it's the capital ship coming out of hyperspace animation, and it's thousands of km in front of the ring.

 

[Buji]

I thought the scale was too large! I haven't seen any capitals drop in before. So that's light bending distortion like around a black hole?

Would a capital ship be large enough to disturb a ring system?

 

[Popalu]

The impression the video gave may be wrong, but the question is still valid.

If people continue to mine ring planets and destroy asteroids, is this in the future going to mean that systems will either be mined out or showing wear and tear?

 

[Cosmo Bozo]

The impression the video gave may be wrong, but the question is still valid.

If people continue to mine ring planets and destroy asteroids, is this in the future going to mean that systems will either be mined out or showing wear and tear?

Probably not, they are procedurally generated from a seed every time you enter the system, they aren't saved, it would be a huge amount of info to keep track of.

And it's not particularly realistic anyway, We haven't mined earth out yet in hundreds of years, these ring systems are bigger.... and mining consists of shooting bits off and scooping them, which is hardly as efficient as a modern open cast mine here on earth.