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Hi denizens of sf.written,
Well remember all those stories where asteroid miners used
mining equipment as weapons.
Renewable Tuesday: Plasma Drilling of Geothermal Wells is Here ><https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/30/2345642/-Renewable-Tuesday-Plasma-Drilling-of-Geothermal-Wells-is-Here>
If it can drill through rock melting holes in attackers craft will be a
piece of cake.
In article <10bhghp$3ulr0$1@dont-email.me>,
Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
Hi denizens of sf.written,
Well remember all those stories where asteroid miners used
mining equipment as weapons.
Renewable Tuesday: Plasma Drilling of Geothermal Wells is Here
<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/30/2345642/-Renewable-Tuesday-Plasma-Drilling-of-Geothermal-Wells-is-Here>
If it can drill through rock melting holes in attackers craft will be a >> piece of cake.
What we need is a Disinto that can operate off a pair of flashight batteries. --scott
On 9/30/25 14:23, Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article <10bhghp$3ulr0$1@dont-email.me>,
Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
Hi denizens of sf.written,
Well remember all those stories where asteroid miners used
mining equipment as weapons.
Renewable Tuesday: Plasma Drilling of Geothermal Wells is Here
<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/30/2345642/-Renewable-Tuesday-Plasma-Drilling-of-Geothermal-Wells-is-Here>
If it can drill through rock melting holes in attackers craft will be a >>> piece of cake.
What we need is a Disinto that can operate off a pair of flashight batteries.
--scott
I visualize a capacitor of high density charged by squeezing a lever
that compresses a piezo-electric device that provides quite a lot more
power than
you can get from D cells. It discharges though the advanced circuitry
that will
do what the circuitry in the present day plasma drill does.
On 9/30/25 14:23, Scott Dorsey wrote:
What we need is a Disinto that can operate off a pair of flashight batteries.
I visualize a capacitor of high density charged by squeezing a lever
that compresses a piezo-electric device that provides quite a lot more
power than
you can get from D cells. It discharges though the advanced circuitry
that will
do what the circuitry in the present day plasma drill does.
Hi denizens of sf.written,
Well remember all those stories where asteroid miners used
mining equipment as weapons.
Renewable Tuesday: Plasma Drilling of Geothermal Wells is Here
<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/30/2345642/-Renewable-Tuesday-Plasma-Drilling-of-Geothermal-Wells-is-Here>
If it can drill through rock melting holes in attackers craft will be a
piece of cake.
Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> schrieb:
Hi denizens of sf.written,
Well remember all those stories where asteroid miners used
mining equipment as weapons.
Renewable Tuesday: Plasma Drilling of Geothermal Wells is Here
<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/30/2345642/-Renewable-Tuesday-Plasma-Drilling-of-Geothermal-Wells-is-Here>
If it can drill through rock melting holes in attackers craft will be a >> piece of cake.
Easy - just make sure the attacker's aircraft is in front of your
plasma drill and stays there for long enough, preferably on the ground. Otherwise it could get difficult.
And if some guards come and ask what you're doing, tell them
you're doing important maintenance work, it's all very secret
and they could escape punishment for asking by just quietly
walking away.
On 10/1/25 10:28, Thomas Koenig wrote:
Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> schrieb:
Hi denizens of sf.written,
Well remember all those stories where asteroid miners used
mining equipment as weapons.
Renewable Tuesday: Plasma Drilling of Geothermal Wells is Here
<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/30/2345642/-Renewable-Tuesday-Plasma-Drilling-of-Geothermal-Wells-is-Here>
If it can drill through rock melting holes in attackers craft will be a >>> piece of cake.
Easy - just make sure the attacker's aircraft is in front of your
plasma drill and stays there for long enough, preferably on the ground.
Otherwise it could get difficult.
And if some guards come and ask what you're doing, tell them
you're doing important maintenance work, it's all very secret
and they could escape punishment for asking by just quietly
walking away.
Well you look at what we have today and extrapolate not a bit.
Remember when computers were kept in special rooms?
When an IBM official said that that 6 computers were enough?
Now when I look at the device today the plasma drill I extrapolate
to what it may be in sufficient time. Just like the computers I have here which are laptops with many times the power and abilities of those
room sized computers and how many of them are in use for how many
activities.
Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> schrieb:
On 10/1/25 10:28, Thomas Koenig wrote:
Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> schrieb:
Hi denizens of sf.written,
Well remember all those stories where asteroid miners used
mining equipment as weapons.
Renewable Tuesday: Plasma Drilling of Geothermal Wells is Here
<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/30/2345642/-Renewable-Tuesday-Plasma-Drilling-of-Geothermal-Wells-is-Here>
If it can drill through rock melting holes in attackers craft will be a >>>> piece of cake.
Easy - just make sure the attacker's aircraft is in front of your
plasma drill and stays there for long enough, preferably on the ground.
Otherwise it could get difficult.
And if some guards come and ask what you're doing, tell them
you're doing important maintenance work, it's all very secret
and they could escape punishment for asking by just quietly
walking away.
Well you look at what we have today and extrapolate not a bit.
Remember when computers were kept in special rooms?
Computers as an example is a bit misleading - they progressed
by many orders of magnitude by miniaturization.
Using your argument, one would expect cars to exceed the speed of
light, if they had gotten faster by the same factor as computers.
The problem with plasma beams is that they spread, and because
they are hot, they give off a lot of energy via radiation.
If you can keep your plasma source close (as in inches) to
where you want to put the energy, fine. Long distance, moving
target: No.
When an IBM official said that that 6 computers were enough?
Misquoted originally, and you misquoted the misquote.
Now when I look at the device today the plasma drill I extrapolate
to what it may be in sufficient time. Just like the computers I have here >> which are laptops with many times the power and abilities of those
room sized computers and how many of them are in use for how many
activities.
Be sure to tell me when your car exceeds light speed.
On 10/1/25 11:04, Thomas Koenig wrote:
The problem with plasma beams is that they spread, and because
they are hot, they give off a lot of energy via radiation.
If you can keep your plasma source close (as in inches) to
where you want to put the energy, fine. Long distance, moving
target: No.
Bobbie Sellers<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> schrieb:
On 10/1/25 11:04, Thomas Koenig wrote:
Apart from the computer hyperbole, you failed to reply to this:
The problem with plasma beams is that they spread, and because
they are hot, they give off a lot of energy via radiation.
If you can keep your plasma source close (as in inches) to
where you want to put the energy, fine. Long distance, moving
target: No.
... because physics is saying plasma beams don't work over long
distances, and no amount of drawing ridiculous analogies to
computers will help.
What would be the max effective range for a plasma beam? 100 meters? 10 >meters? If its as long as 10 kilometers Id be surprised. And there goes
a whole lot of SF battles.
WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
What would be the max effective range for a plasma beam? 100 meters? 10
meters? If its as long as 10 kilometers Id be surprised. And there goes
a whole lot of SF battles.
You need to get the plasma beam source right up to the target. That's
what the photon torpedo is for.
--scott
Hi denizens of sf.written,
-a-a-a-aWell remember all those stories where asteroid miners used
mining equipment as weapons.
Renewable Tuesday: Plasma Drilling of Geothermal Wells is Here <https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/30/2345642/-Renewable-Tuesday- Plasma-Drilling-of-Geothermal-Wells-is-Here>
-a-a-a-aIf it can drill through rock melting holes in attackers craft will be a piece of cake.
-a-a-a-abliss- plasma rifles in atmosphere coming soon...
Remember too that with the Hydrogen bomb no one was sure that the effects would be local and the atmosphere could not be set on fire.
You might say that we have no beam weapons
Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> schrieb:
Remember too that with the Hydrogen bomb no one was sure that the
effects would be local and the atmosphere could not be set on fire.
If people weren't sure about that, they were clueless. The formation
of various nitrous oxides is an endothermic process, and it is
very easy to put an upper limit on the amount of nitrous oxides
generated - simple division. You can only set things on fire if
the reaction with oxygen is exothermic.
You might say that we have no beam weapons
Lasers for destroying drones are actually a thing.
On 10/1/2025 10:26 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> schrieb:
Remember too that with the Hydrogen bomb no one was sure that the
effects would be local and the atmosphere could not be set on fire.
If people weren't sure about that, they were clueless. The formation
of various nitrous oxides is an endothermic process, and it is
very easy to put an upper limit on the amount of nitrous oxides
generated - simple division. You can only set things on fire if
the reaction with oxygen is exothermic.
You might say that we have no beam weapons
Lasers for destroying drones are actually a thing.
Yes and no. Lasers for blinding sensors or causing shorts in circuits
yes, lasers as in cutting pieces of the frame off no.
I visualize a capacitor of high density charged by squeezing a lever
that compresses a piezo-electric device that provides quite a lot more
power than
you can get from D cells. It discharges though the advanced circuitry
that will
do what the circuitry in the present day plasma drill does.
I am just pleased that I am living long enough to see the plasma drill.
On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:36:44 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
I visualize a capacitor of high density charged by squeezing a lever >>that compresses a piezo-electric device that provides quite a lot more >>power than
you can get from D cells. It discharges though the advanced circuitry >>that will
do what the circuitry in the present day plasma drill does.
I am just pleased that I am living long enough to see the plasma drill.
I confess I always wondered about those Star Trek phasers that could
vaporize an entire human being as opposed to blowing a lethal size
hole in him.
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> schrieb:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:36:44 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
I visualize a capacitor of high density charged by squeezing a lever >>> that compresses a piezo-electric device that provides quite a lot moreI confess I always wondered about those Star Trek phasers that could
power than
you can get from D cells. It discharges though the advanced circuitry
that will
do what the circuitry in the present day plasma drill does.
I am just pleased that I am living long enough to see the plasma drill. >>
vaporize an entire human being as opposed to blowing a lethal size
hole in him.
They didn't vaporize, or everybody in the room would have been
choking on the fumes. The creators of the show just chose whatever
special effect was cheapest.
But remember, this is Star Trek, where space ships travelling through intersteallar space meet by accident at distances of ~ 100 000 km.
Quoting the sorely missed Douglas Adams:
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely,
mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way
down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
I did some calculations years ago and determined that if phasers
converted a human sized target into energy it would release roughly the >equivalent of a 2 GIGAton nuclear bomb IIRC.
converted a human sized target into energy
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote or quoted:
I did some calculations years ago and determined that if phasers
converted a human sized target into energy it would release roughly the
equivalent of a 2 GIGAton nuclear bomb IIRC.
You might be working off a false either-or between something
with mass, like a human body, and energy when you write
converted a human sized target into energy
. Anything with mass already /is/ energy (a form of energy).
On 10/4/2025 9:40 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:turning into a normal-sized bat (boom!). Or back again (where does the
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote or quoted:~200 lbs converted to joules (or whatever it is in E=MC2).
I did some calculations years ago and determined that if phasers
converted a human sized target into energy it would release roughly the
equivalent of a 2 GIGAton nuclear bomb IIRC.
You might be working off a false either-or between something
with mass, like a human body, and energy when you write
converted a human sized target into energy
. Anything with mass already /is/ energy (a form of energy).
And even if phasers are "just" breaking all the chemical bonds in the
atoms in a body, that's just the same as a theoretically perfectly
efficient conventional explosive since that is exactly what they do.
How big a bang do you get from ~200 lb of Simtec or C4 or some other >explosive like that. Now multiply _that_ by some large number because >conventional explosives don't break EVERY chemical bond when they detonate. This is, of course, the sort of reasoning that prevents Dracula from
On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 13:32:04 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 10/4/2025 9:40 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:the
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote or quoted:
I did some calculations years ago and determined that if phasers
converted a human sized target into energy it would release roughly =
~200 lbs converted to joules (or whatever it is in E=3DMC2).equivalent of a 2 GIGAton nuclear bomb IIRC.=20
You might be working off a false either-or between something
with mass, like a human body, and energy when you write
=20
converted a human sized target into energy=20
. Anything with mass already /is/ energy (a form of energy).
=20
And even if phasers are "just" breaking all the chemical bonds in the=20 >>atoms in a body, that's just the same as a theoretically perfectly=20 >>efficient conventional explosive since that is exactly what they do.=20
How big a bang do you get from ~200 lb of Simtec or C4 or some other=20 >>explosive like that. Now multiply _that_ by some large number because=20 >>conventional explosives don't break EVERY chemical bond when they = >detonate.
This is, of course, the sort of reasoning that prevents Dracula from
turning into a normal-sized bat (boom!). Or back again (where does the
energy come from?)
On 10/4/2025 9:40 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote or quoted:~200 lbs converted to joules (or whatever it is in E=MC2).
I did some calculations years ago and determined that if phasers
converted a human sized target into energy it would release roughly the
equivalent of a 2 GIGAton nuclear bomb IIRC.
You might be working off a false either-or between something
with mass, like a human body, and energy when you write
converted a human sized target into energy
. Anything with mass already /is/ energy (a form of energy).
And even if phasers are "just" breaking all the chemical bonds in the
atoms in a body, that's just the same as a theoretically perfectly
efficient conventional explosive since that is exactly what they do.
How big a bang do you get from ~200 lb of Simtec or C4 or some other explosive like that. Now multiply _that_ by some large number because conventional explosives don't break EVERY chemical bond when they detonate.
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> schrieb:
And even if phasers are "just" breaking all the chemical bonds in the
atoms in a body, that's just the same as a theoretically perfectly
efficient conventional explosive since that is exactly what they do.
That is a gross oversimplification of the chemical reaction of
explosives. (Plus, there's always residue).
Also, breaking up water is highly endothermic, water is quite an
extremely stable compound. And more than half of the human body
is water.
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> schrieb:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:36:44 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
I visualize a capacitor of high density charged by squeezing a lever >>> that compresses a piezo-electric device that provides quite a lot moreI confess I always wondered about those Star Trek phasers that could
power than
you can get from D cells. It discharges though the advanced circuitry
that will
do what the circuitry in the present day plasma drill does.
I am just pleased that I am living long enough to see the plasma drill. >>
vaporize an entire human being as opposed to blowing a lethal size
hole in him.
They didn't vaporize, or everybody in the room would have been
choking on the fumes. The creators of the show just chose whatever
special effect was cheapest.
On 10/4/2025 2:52 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> schrieb:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:36:44 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
-a-a-a-aI visualize a capacitor of high density charged by squeezing a >>>> lever
that compresses a piezo-electric device that provides quite a lot more >>>> power than
you can get from D cells.-a It discharges though the advanced circuitry >>>> that will
do what the circuitry in the present day plasma drill does.
-a-a-a-aI am just pleased that I am living long enough to see the plasma >>>> drill.
I confess I always wondered about those Star Trek phasers that could
vaporize an entire human being as opposed to blowing a lethal size
hole in him.
They didn't vaporize, or everybody in the room would have been
choking on the fumes.-a The creators of the show just chose whatever
special effect was cheapest.
My headcanon was that the beams were transporter beams, with no
receiver specified - whatever the transporters send just gets lost
in a large area of space.
On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 13:32:04 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 10/4/2025 9:40 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote or quoted:~200 lbs converted to joules (or whatever it is in E=MC2).
I did some calculations years ago and determined that if phasers
converted a human sized target into energy it would release roughly the >>>> equivalent of a 2 GIGAton nuclear bomb IIRC.
You might be working off a false either-or between something
with mass, like a human body, and energy when you write
converted a human sized target into energy
. Anything with mass already /is/ energy (a form of energy).
And even if phasers are "just" breaking all the chemical bonds in the
atoms in a body, that's just the same as a theoretically perfectly
efficient conventional explosive since that is exactly what they do.
How big a bang do you get from ~200 lb of Simtec or C4 or some other
explosive like that. Now multiply _that_ by some large number because
conventional explosives don't break EVERY chemical bond when they detonate.
This is, of course, the sort of reasoning that prevents Dracula from
turning into a normal-sized bat (boom!). Or back again (where does the
energy come from?)
On 10/5/2025 2:55 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/4/2025 2:52 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:Wrong sound effect then. :P
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> schrieb:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:36:44 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
aaaaI visualize a capacitor of high density charged by squeezing a
lever
that compresses a piezo-electric device that provides quite a lot more >>>>> power than
you can get from D cells.a It discharges though the advanced circuitry >>>>> that will
do what the circuitry in the present day plasma drill does.
aaaaI am just pleased that I am living long enough to see the plasma >>>>> drill.
I confess I always wondered about those Star Trek phasers that could
vaporize an entire human being as opposed to blowing a lethal size
hole in him.
They didn't vaporize, or everybody in the room would have been
choking on the fumes.a The creators of the show just chose whatever
special effect was cheapest.
My headcanon was that the beams were transporter beams, with no
receiver specified - whatever the transporters send just gets lost
in a large area of space.
On 10/5/25 09:31, Paul S Person wrote:<snippo>
Maybe in your reality. Or Dante's.This is, of course, the sort of reasoning that prevents Dracula from
turning into a normal-sized bat (boom!). Or back again (where does the
energy come from?)
Well like Superman, Dracula is a magical creature. Dracula's nature is
assumed
because of his human prey to be demonic or specifically a demon has
replaced the
assumed soul of Dracula. Where did the Universe come from? Someplace else >and that is where Dracula mass/energy is assumed to reside.
Where does Superman's extremely strength and durability come from probablyActually, it's the yellow sun. But I'm sure the body scaled for a
the same place or some place very similar. Oh for the thrilling days of >yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
-a-a-a-aWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come from probably
the same place or some place very similar.-a Oh for the thrilling days of yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
-a-a-a-abliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
-a-a-a-aWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come from >> probably
the same place or some place very similar.-a Oh for the thrilling days of
yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
-a-a-a-abliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
They were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain his
ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the super power come
from that prevents everything from sliding from tables, or drinks from spilling, inside the tall buildings he sometimes carries in one
outstretched palm under one sharp corner whilst flying?
(The colour of a sun will not be accepted as a scientific answer!)
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
-a-a-a-aWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come from >> probably
the same place or some place very similar.-a Oh for the thrilling days of
yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
-a-a-a-abliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
They were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain his
ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the super power come
from that prevents everything from sliding from tables, or drinks from spilling, inside the tall buildings he sometimes carries in one
outstretched palm under one sharp corner whilst flying?
(The colour of a sun will not be accepted as a scientific answer!)
On 10/6/2025 9:24 PM, Titus G wrote:
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
-a-a-a-aWhere does Superman's extremely strength and
durability come from
probably
the same place or some place very similar.-a Oh for the
thrilling days of yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could
confer super powers.
-a-a-a-abliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
They were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain
his ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the
super power come from that prevents everything from sliding
from tables, or drinks from spilling, inside the tall buildings
he sometimes carries in one outstretched palm under one sharp
corner whilst flying? (The colour of a sun will not be accepted
as a scientific answer!)
Contact telekinesis.
("Miracle exception" is Kakalio's term for the change in the laws
of physics needed to account for a superhero's powers.)
On 10/6/25 21:24, Titus G wrote:
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
-a-a-a-aWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come from >>> probablyThey were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain his
the same place or some place very similar.-a Oh for the thrilling days of >>> yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
-a-a-a-abliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the super power come
from that prevents everything from sliding from tables, or drinks from
spilling, inside the tall buildings he sometimes carries in one
outstretched palm under one sharp corner whilst flying?
(The colour of a sun will not be accepted as a scientific answer!)
Magic in the ink the artists use is the secret.
Some of the movies have demonstrated what battles between Superpowered
people and super-powered aliens can do to nice modern cities.
Magic is his vunerability as well as I well remember from the earliest case
of the rude little goblin with an unpronounceable name who used to show up
to bedevil younger Kal-El.
Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> writes:
On 10/6/25 21:24, Titus G wrote:
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
-a-a-a-aWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come fromThey were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain his
probably
the same place or some place very similar.-a Oh for the thrilling days of >>>> yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
-a-a-a-abliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the super power come
from that prevents everything from sliding from tables, or drinks from
spilling, inside the tall buildings he sometimes carries in one
outstretched palm under one sharp corner whilst flying?
(The colour of a sun will not be accepted as a scientific answer!)
Magic in the ink the artists use is the secret.
Some of the movies have demonstrated what battles between Superpowered >> people and super-powered aliens can do to nice modern cities.
Magic is his vunerability as well as I well remember from the earliest case
of the rude little goblin with an unpronounceable name who used to show up >> to bedevil younger Kal-El.
Mister Mxyzptlk?
On 10/7/25 07:51, Don_from_AZ wrote:
Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> writes:I believe so but i have always had problems with the spelling.
On 10/6/25 21:24, Titus G wrote:
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
-a-a-a-aWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come fromThey were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain his
probably
the same place or some place very similar.-a Oh for the thrilling days of >>>>> yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
-a-a-a-abliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the super power come >>>> from that prevents everything from sliding from tables, or drinks from >>>> spilling, inside the tall buildings he sometimes carries in one
outstretched palm under one sharp corner whilst flying?
(The colour of a sun will not be accepted as a scientific answer!)
Magic in the ink the artists use is the secret.
Some of the movies have demonstrated what battles between Superpowered >>> people and super-powered aliens can do to nice modern cities.
Magic is his vunerability as well as I well remember from the earliest case
of the rude little goblin with an unpronounceable name who used to show up
to bedevil younger Kal-El.
Mister Mxyzptlk?
I think he shows up with the Joker in a more recent story line
helping the Joker reshape reality so that Joker can win once in a while
and to bedevil those overserious chaps, Bruce Wayne and Kal-El. Even
Mister Mxyzptlk gets fed up with the Joker and leaves him flat, to the
best of my recollection.
You do know that the first conception of Superman made him a bald
villain but no one wanted a super telepathic villain so the creators
changed
to the more positive side of the story and cut out the telepathy for
a while.
The bald villain returned with Lex Luthor and Brainiac of course.
bliss - magic in the ink of course
Michael Ikeda <mmikeda@erols.com> wrote or quoted:Well, "the natural things", actually. This, of course became Physics.
("Miracle exception" is Kakalio's term for the change in the laws
of physics needed to account for a superhero's powers.)
The Greek "ta physika" means "natural things".