Attached Link: Earth image 3

I do think it's overkill. But, it would be FINE if I wasn't using transparent light refracting materials. Renders without the earth marble and big bang marble in under an hour, but add those and yuck... I am running on an athlon 2000+xp w 256 megs of ram (too low I know) but I've never had a render hang cept this one. If I do the whole screen full standard render, it hangs when it gets to the middle of the big bang marble. Here's a link to what I have rendered so far, you can see that it hasn't yet rendered most of the big bang marble but you can get a feel for the scene. Not sure it's even rendering it how I wanted Thinking of maybe surrounding that marble in negative lights to give it a blackhole effect, though I am not entirely sure...