Comments on: OMG! They killed Mimas!

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:29:16 +0000

If you draw a perfect circle on Mimas, you can see that the impact left a very thick layer of material around the crater, to a distance of about 60 degrees of circumference. Even the abyss of the crater may not be below the original surface.

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:29:16 +0000

Accidental double-click.

By: Wzrd1

Wzrd1 — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:31:26 +0000

Phil! You were SUPPOSED to WAIT to shoot the teraimactor at the damned thing!
You bastard, you killed kennyprobe!

By: Other Paul

Other Paul — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:08:26 +0000

Ending with ‘To be continued …’

By: IMForeman

IMForeman — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:41:43 +0000

It ends with Kenny, having lived for trillions of years, gathers energy into a vast starship he’s built over history and says “Let there be light” and he reignites a new universe… and maybe becomes Galactus in the next one.

By: Other Paul

Other Paul — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:12:16 +0000

@IMForeman: Now if I say it finishes with Kenny in an old folks home, aged 130, a la D Hoffman in Little Big Man, that’ll be the end of it, right? Or do we go all Babylon 5 with Kenny reconstructed in ‘live’ histories of past millennia? Gaah!

By: IMForeman

IMForeman — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:19:14 +0000

@Other Paul, And then they fade to 20 years later, with a “Wonder Years/Stand By Me” narration from an adult, millionaire Best selling author Kenny says “I still think of my friends and our crazy days in South Park: Stan, Kyle… even Eric. And while I miss those guys, that town was just nuts.”

By: Phil Plait

Phil Plait — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:56:08 +0000

This is pretty funny! I literally did think the image looked like Kenny as I was writing the older post, and never saw the other people claiming it looked like him. Clearly the resemblance is strong enough that a lot of folks thought of it independently.

As for the people who don’t see it, well, YMMV. But a lot of us do.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:35:10 +0000

@3. Robert S-R : ” …but why attack Mimas?”

Because its the Death Star of course!

Compare :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mimas_Cassini.jpg

with :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathstar

The only difference is a light coating of frost!

Oh & see here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcWBVZIWfCk

What it will do to you if you don’t attack it!

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:56:11 +0000

OMG they’ve … turned Kenny into a Saturnian moon!

@11. IMForeman & 12. Other Paul : Yes. Agreed on both there.

By: Other Paul

Other Paul — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:29:38 +0000

@IMForeman – an arm, clad in a red coat, punches up and out from the rubble. Fade to silhouette against the sky.

By: Rex Bob Lowenstein

Rex Bob Lowenstein — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:23:24 +0000

Not even close. I must have been in a coma, when did Discover turn into Discovery Channel?

By: IMForeman

IMForeman — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:12:45 +0000

When South Park finally comes to an end, I think the perfect way to close the series is to destroy the town of South Park completely and kill everyone in town… except for Kenny. Kenny climbs out of the wreckage, the soul survivor. Yeah… that would be cool.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:26:56 +0000

I think I came up with this first. I tweeted the resemblance to Carolyn Porco on April 11th just after the image was posted. See here: http://twitpic.com/4jod60

Do I get a prize? No! Screw you guys, I’m going home!

By: J. Major

J. Major — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:11:13 +0000

@ #8. Other Paul: Ha! I was going to leave it be but heck, you said it. Priors all around!
(Actually I had first said it back on February 1 in regards to a similar side-view of Mimas: http://wp.me/pru7J-Jt )

By: alfaniner

alfaniner — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:55:23 +0000

My first thought from this angle was “Kenny!” but someone beat me to it on the earlier post. Although, it does also look like the globe from my Litter Robot.

By: MAC

MAC — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:35:42 +0000

Kenny kinda looks like a cement truck from the side. Part of one, anyway.

By: Other Paul

Other Paul — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:59:00 +0000

Harumph. At least two of us beat you to it in yesterday’s comments. http://twitpic.com/4khybw J Major and I claim priors!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:58:49 +0000

Lol gotta love it

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:47:56 +0000

Mimas must respect Jupiter’s authoriti!

By: DrFlimmer

DrFlimmer — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:54:44 +0000

And who’s responsible?

BLAME CANADA! BLAME CANADA!

By: Lewis

Lewis — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:50:48 +0000

I guess that makes Jupiter … Cartman? He’s not fat, he’s just ‘big cored’.

By: Robert S-R

Robert S-R — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:25:25 +0000

Gosh. I thought maybe a supervillain’s scheme had come to fruition, but why attack Mimas?

By: Keith Bowden

Keith Bowden — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:49:50 +0000

Drat, Marina beat me to it.

By: Marina Stern

Marina Stern — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:43:35 +0000

You bastards!