MythTickle by Justin Thompson for March 23, 2015

Well put.

The Martian makes sense!

Nice strip today. Excellent artwork, a joke for the surface level with a little extra at a deeper level to leave you something to think about, and above all a “Life of Brian” reference.

You’ve done well Mr. Thompson

Aye. Indeed.

So that’s where Atlantis is!

Atlantis is a Myth!

It’s actually Lemuria.

Yes, I realize this is a comic strip

A planet cannot just ‘collide’ with its own moon, unless some other body struck the moon with enough force to send it, not just out of its orbit, but also on a high-speed trajectory into the planet, rather than away from it. While if this did happen you might get the gouge, it is improbable that this would create an ‘explosion’ event, but if it did, the fragments would, as happens in an outer-space explosion, be scattered in a roughly spherical pattern and keep going unless trapped by another body’s gravity field. For the asteroids to be a planetary remnant, the planet would both have to break up into a lot of fragments, yet still do so in such a way as to allow the fragments to remain in generally the original orbit, a difficult set of options to occur at the same time. I won’t say it’s impossible, but the likelihood is not great.

Yeeeahhh, that’s the way it happened. Nothing to do with an omnipotent dog— er, god at all…(And Earth’s oceans are NOT slobber.)

Unfortunately, Capt. Odom committed a grammatical error [find it: win a prize (not from me)!], so I don’t believe anything he said.

Actually, it is a punctuation error.

And all this happened in the last 2-1/2 million years, which is all the time Earth has had polar ice caps? (The ones from 250 or so million years before that had long since melted).