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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If there was a giant ring of steel with a radius one foot greater than the Earth's radius placed around Earth, would it seemingly levitate one foot off the ground?

Let's just assume that the Earth is perfectly round in this situation, and the steel is unbendable and indestructible. Would it appear to float? Why or why not? What if the steel wasn't unbendable/indestructible?
gpt
This is actually an unstable situation. It's impossible to place the ring perfectly, and that means it's going to be slightly closer to the ground on one side of the Earth than the other. This means that Earth's gravity on the ring will be slightly stronger on one side than the other, and it will fall to the ground on that side.

On the other side of the Earth, you'd see a long beam floating two feet off the ground, disappearing into the distant horizon.

If it's bendable/destructible, it'll just buckle and fall to the ground everywhere.