Talk:1384: Krypton - Revision history

172.69.144.155 at 11:13, 3 June 2024

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108.162.221.27 at 16:41, 1 July 2016

2016-07-01T16:41:16Z

RedHatGuy68 at 03:16, 20 April 2016

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141.101.70.61 at 21:24, 3 March 2016

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162.158.255.52 at 02:16, 25 September 2015

2015-09-25T02:16:22Z

Davidy22: Reverted edits by 173.245.52.105 (talk) to last revision by 108.162.249.221

2015-03-23T20:42:31Z

Reverted edits by 173.245.52.105 (talk) to last revision by 108.162.249.221

173.245.52.105: Removed off topic discussion

2015-03-23T19:03:01Z

Removed off topic discussion

108.162.249.221 at 05:32, 3 February 2015

2015-02-03T05:32:25Z

Davidy22: Reverted edits by 173.245.48.194 (talk) to last revision by Sean timmons

2014-10-18T02:31:39Z

Reverted edits by 173.245.48.194 (talk) to last revision by Sean timmons

173.245.48.194: I accidentally all the politics

2014-10-18T02:09:08Z

I accidentally all the politics

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 :::::What's the deal with the discussion here? Its like some anti abortion person said, look at this comic and make comments and two people showed up. Protip, no one cares what you think. They care about explaining the comic. 15:32, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 :::::The humor of this comes from the comical reversal of an older story. Try to see the comic not as a joke about "We don't like our baby, let's kill it" so much as a joke about an earth family sending their baby to Krypton.[[User:RedHatGuy68|RedHatGuy68]] ([[User talk:RedHatGuy68|talk]]) 03:16, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
 What I totally don't get is...when the visual information about Krypton's instability has reached Earth, Krypton has already exploded many years ago. I guess that Kal-El's spaceship is travelling at near-lightspeed, so time-dilation effects cause very little apparent time to pass for Kal-El; so when he arrives he's still a a baby. This assumes that (a) the alien technology allows for extraordinary acceleration while still maintaining survivable conditions for the baby (while Superman can apparently survive extreme conditions, this trait is most probably bestowed upon him only at the end of his journey by the Earth sun), and (b) the he is a male (this primary sexual characteristics are not shown in the movie, IIRC...). An FTL spaceship is out of the question, as this would mean that the Krptonite meteors would also have been travelling at FTL speed.

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	:More importantly, FTL is an everyday thing in the DC universe. Our real-world science says the telescope is impossible, and so is Superman; the idea of just accepting those but drawing the line at FTL is more than a little silly. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.52\|162.158.255.52]] 02:16, 25 September 2015 (UTC)		:More importantly, FTL is an everyday thing in the DC universe. Our real-world science says the telescope is impossible, and so is Superman; the idea of just accepting those but drawing the line at FTL is more than a little silly. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.52\|162.158.255.52]] 02:16, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
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		+	::"Our real-world science says the telescope is impossible" [citation needed] [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.27\|108.162.221.27]] 16:41, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

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 :::::What's the best part about dead baby jokes? They never get old. --[[User:Dangerkeith3000|Dangerkeith3000]] ([[User talk:Dangerkeith3000|talk]]) 18:41, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 :::::What's the deal with the discussion here? Its like some anti abortion person said, look at this comic and make comments and two people showed up. Protip, no one cares what you think. They care about explaining the comic. 15:32, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 What I totally don't get is...when the visual information about Krypton's instability has reached Earth, Krypton has already exploded many years ago. I guess that Kal-El's spaceship is travelling at near-lightspeed, so time-dilation effects cause very little apparent time to pass for Kal-El; so when he arrives he's still a a baby. This assumes that (a) the alien technology allows for extraordinary acceleration while still maintaining survivable conditions for the baby (while Superman can apparently survive extreme conditions, this trait is most probably bestowed upon him only at the end of his journey by the Earth sun), and (b) the he is a male (this primary sexual characteristics are not shown in the movie, IIRC...). An FTL spaceship is out of the question, as this would mean that the Krptonite meteors would also have been travelling at FTL speed.
 :Whatever. By the time a spaceship from Earth arrives, even if it travels at near-lightspeed, Clark Kent will most probably be facing retirement already (after turning a crank for many years, of course).
 Btw, having Superman turn a crank instead of having him fight crimes would not necessarily mean that Lex Luthor would have had success with his evil plans. Mr. Bond, James Bond, had proven numerous times that he can stop any criminal who attempt to achieve world domination or at least extreme wealth via over-convoluted plans. Yep, I mean, if you could build powersats, you'd immediately achieve wold domination via your monopoly for "free and clean energy", so why bother with criminal plans? Any, if you are smart enough to build powersats, but cannot resist the temptation to use them for over-convoluted criminal plans, should yout net able to think about the option to give your Legion of Doom at least basic training in marksmanship?

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	Is the Earth baby the real reason Krypton was destroyed? [[Special:Contributions/103.22.201.239\|103.22.201.239]] 08:58, 20 June 2014 (UTC)		Is the Earth baby the real reason Krypton was destroyed? [[Special:Contributions/103.22.201.239\|103.22.201.239]] 08:58, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
		+	:It seems that, in this comic, the answer is yes; in the real Superman series the answer is no because there is no Earth baby.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.70.61\|141.101.70.61]] 21:24, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

	Is now a good time to mark the shark jump? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.135\|108.162.210.135]] 12:52, 20 June 2014 (UTC)		Is now a good time to mark the shark jump? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.135\|108.162.210.135]] 12:52, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

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	Regarding the following quote under trivia: "As faster than light-speed travel is impossible according to the current model of our universe this option is not really relevant here." FTL is entirely (theoretically) ppssible, its just travel at lightspeed that is impossible. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.36\|108.162.221.36]] 01:32, 29 June 2014 (UTC)		Regarding the following quote under trivia: "As faster than light-speed travel is impossible according to the current model of our universe this option is not really relevant here." FTL is entirely (theoretically) ppssible, its just travel at lightspeed that is impossible. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.36\|108.162.221.36]] 01:32, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
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		+	:More importantly, FTL is an everyday thing in the DC universe. Our real-world science says the telescope is impossible, and so is Superman; the idea of just accepting those but drawing the line at FTL is more than a little silly. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.52\|162.158.255.52]] 02:16, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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 Not so bad if you can relate to the anguish of parenting a colicky kid. Sending him to Krypton is an improvement on some of the things I was tempted to do. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.71|173.245.55.71]] 15:08, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 :Sending a baby off to die is better than things you were tempted to do?  You really want to make that claim? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.39|199.27.133.39]] 16:14, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 It may be a cultural-linguistic thing, but I felt compelled to change "cries" to "crying", in the explanation.  Hearing "his cries" is redolent of "Ahoy there!" coming from a person attracting attention in a nautical context, the various distinctive calls of a person selling produce in a street-market or "I'm up here!  Get me down!" from a person stuck on the ledge of a burning building.  When a baby cries (as opposed to when someone "cries out") you hear him (or her... it's not actually specified) 'crying', not his(/her) 'calling-cries', even though both are indeed similar forms of attracting attention.  I've overthought this, of course. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.57|141.101.99.57]] 15:19, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

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 ::Jumping the shark is a single event, not a segment of time. In this case it's launching the earth baby. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.175|108.162.237.175]] 03:30, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 :::And you can't identify a "shark jump" until a consistent decline is clearly evident. Then you can look back, and see where things started going downhill. [[User:NealCruco|NealCruco]] ([[User talk:NealCruco|talk]]) 15:32, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 Not so bad if you can relate to the anguish of parenting a colicky kid. Sending him to Krypton is an improvement on some of the things I was tempted to do. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.71|173.245.55.71]] 15:08, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

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 Not so bad if you can relate to the anguish of parenting a colicky kid. Sending him to Krypton is an improvement on some of the things I was tempted to do. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.71|173.245.55.71]] 15:08, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 It may be a cultural-linguistic thing, but I felt compelled to change "cries" to "crying", in the explanation.  Hearing "his cries" is redolent of "Ahoy there!" coming from a person attracting attention in a nautical context, the various distinctive calls of a person selling produce in a street-market or "I'm up here!  Get me down!" from a person stuck on the ledge of a burning building.  When a baby cries (as opposed to when someone "cries out") you hear him (or her... it's not actually specified) 'crying', not his(/her) 'calling-cries', even though both are indeed similar forms of attracting attention.  I've overthought this, of course. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.57|141.101.99.57]] 15:19, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
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 Can someone '''explain''' how this is funny? {{unsigned ip|108.162.217.47}}
-:Seriously.  ''Infanticide as entertainment?!!''  Parents deciding to kill a baby because it's noisy is neither amusing nor an interesting observation.  Shame on Randall.
+:Seriously.  ''Infanticide as entertainment?!!''  Parents deciding to kill a baby because it's noisy is neither amusing nor an interesting observation.  Shame on Randall. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.39|199.27.133.39]] 16:11, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 What I totally don't get is...when the visual information about Krypton's instability has reached Earth, Krypton has already exploded many years ago. I guess that Kal-El's spaceship is travelling at near-lightspeed, so time-dilation effects cause very little apparent time to pass for Kal-El; so when he arrives he's still a a baby. This assumes that (a) the alien technology allows for extraordinary acceleration while still maintaining survivable conditions for the baby (while Superman can apparently survive extreme conditions, this trait is most probably bestowed upon him only at the end of his journey by the Earth sun), and (b) the he is a male (this primary sexual characteristics are not shown in the movie, IIRC...). An FTL spaceship is out of the question, as this would mean that the Krptonite meteors would also have been travelling at FTL speed.