Recently, the Cassini space probe which has been cruising through the Saturn system made a close pass at the planet's moon Mimas. The probe was able to take a remarkable image showing the moon's most prominent feature: a crater 130 km across. This is a scar from an impact that almost completely shattered the moon to pieces. The angle and position of this crater really caught my eye.

So, the question now is, just how much of a visionary is George Lucas? There are some who insist that Lucas ripped off the design of the Death Star from an early image of Mimas. However, until Voyager 1 reached Saturn in 1980, the surface features of Mimas was not known. Unless Lucas has a time machine, there's no way he could have known what this moon looked like at the time of the release of "A New Hope" in 1977.

Is George Lucas more of a visionary than he gets credit for? Does he indeed have a time machine? Perhaps he loaded his time machine to Steven Spielberg to help in the making of "Jurassic Park"? Or diiiidd he??

Hey, I'm only asking the questions...