Curse

actionjack · Dec 03, 2005, 09:10 PM // 21:10

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Originally Posted by Divinitys Creature

His race comes from Krypton which has a much higher gravity than Earth so they have evolved to have very strong muscles. Since Superman is on Earth, which has less gravity, it's easy for him to jump very high (fly) and do other amazing manouevres. I'm not sure why he can burn things with his eyes though. Maybe Krypton had a atmosphere that required more sensitive ears to hear with and if was dark all the time maybe they evolved laser vision to help see things :P

thats the best explaintion I heard so far.... I could BS things by saying that he might be like a Sun Battery, in which the energy store inside his body can be let out and focus by the eyes like a laser beam. But.... so how would he fly in space? (being super strong does not make you float, and in space, you need a oposit force to push you off to change direction)

Eugaet · Dec 04, 2005, 01:53 AM // 01:53

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Originally Posted by Snowman

who needs Douglas Adams?.. he's a n00b

BLASPHEMER! Douglas Adams was a rare genius who was taken from us much too early.

I still think the passage I quoted makes the most sense.

actionjack · Dec 04, 2005, 01:55 AM // 01:55

A conclusion.... Bodily Gas?

TheEPIC · Dec 04, 2005, 02:15 AM // 02:15

You see, the secret to superman's flight in comic books is the artist's pencils. They give the illusion of him flying when he is really just stuck there in suspended animation on the page.

Now the movies are a different case, with the same sort of principles. In all actuality he is just having his image imposed on a moving background to give the look of flight while he is in a bit of suspended animation. And beyond that, the special effects artists do a similar trick to that of the comic book artists by taking many frames of him in suspended animation and strung them together to get the look of flight.

See Superman never flies, he just suspends his animation and special people make the surroundings seem as if he is flying.

Eugaet · Dec 04, 2005, 02:28 AM // 02:28

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Originally Posted by TheEPIC

You see, the secret...

Heh heh...nice one, EPIC.

Xue Yi Liang · Dec 04, 2005, 03:09 AM // 03:09

Superman is so powerful he doesn't have to fly. He just sticks his arms out and the whole universe moves behind him.

Avari Zi · Dec 04, 2005, 03:22 AM // 03:22

He doesn't accually fly. He's so damn ugly the earth immediately repels him.

TheEPIC · Dec 04, 2005, 06:35 AM // 06:35

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Originally Posted by Avari Zi

He doesn't accually fly. He's so damn ugly the earth immediately repels him.

That's the best one so far.

Divinitys Creature · Dec 04, 2005, 02:56 PM // 14:56

I'll go with the bodily gas explanation for space flight :P

Dec 04, 2005, 06:18 PM // 18:18

hes a super human freak. he comes from a far away planet and we have no idea how they really lived. so mabey they after thousands of years of evolution, they have evolved beyond the need for gravity, and have learned to bypass it all together. as for being in space, his advanced people must have also figured out how to bypass the vacum of space to fly and sustain life out there. heat vision... he suks energy form the sun... very simple

Divinitys Creature · Dec 05, 2005, 11:05 AM // 11:05

How does he breathe in space? His metabolism has to work somehow.

Shimus DarkRaven · Dec 05, 2005, 11:19 AM // 11:19

It's all been said. I'd just to reiterate the best one mentioned so far is the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Quote about flying...my god.. I loved the book/movie.

As for the space metabolism..well he is the man of steel, so many can harden his organs to withstand the cold of space! How he breathes in a vacuum is beyond me, though!

--The Shim

I pwnd U · Dec 05, 2005, 03:51 PM // 15:51

ZOMG U N00BS U ARE SUCH N00BS SUPERMAN LIKE P3WNS ALL11!! HE WOULD P3WN ALL OF U N00BS!!!

lol ok back to being serious there is no real scientific explaination for how he flys but is there one for how he can shoot white hot LASERS out of his eyes? i think not. but y are we stuck on how can he fly? what a/b the lasers...

Axel Revolver · Dec 05, 2005, 04:04 PM // 16:04

It's all in your head guys, Superman never did fly. You were just stoned out of your mind while watching the shows. I used to think Batman was Bruce Wayne when I was high! Boy did he show me I was wrong.

ttrader_atl · Dec 05, 2005, 04:15 PM // 16:15

You kids watch too much Smallville. If I remember correctly from the original Superman movie and I think from the Superfriends cartoon from the 70's-80's(yes I'm old) all his "Super" powers come from the Earths yellow sun. Krypton had a red sun and differance in the way his body acts to the yellow sun's radiiation is what gives him his super powers.

I think somewhere(comics or tv cartoon) some baddie changed the earth's sun to red and he lost all his powers.

As far as how he actually flys, my nerdy guess would be he "wills" every molecule in his body to move in the direction he wants to go thereby defies gravity.

Heat Vision, no clue??? What about super cold breath? Doesn't matter how hard you blow, shouldn't be able to freeze anything. Also in Superman II movie he could teleport, what's up with that? Why doesn't he just do that instead of flying to wherever he's going.

Damia · Dec 05, 2005, 04:30 PM // 16:30

he's a bird.. he's a plane.. that's how!!

Divinitys Creature · Dec 05, 2005, 08:10 PM // 20:10

They never made superman 6: I woke up and realised I was stoned

Xue Yi Liang · Dec 05, 2005, 08:18 PM // 20:18

ok I can't hide the secret anymore .... when Superman needs to fly he just contacts me and I hurl him into space with my great godly strength.

If I'm not up to it I just give him cab fare.