I didn't know that the ability to fly was psionic. I guess Peter Pan was right. But yeah question just popped up after hearing one of my favorite comedians.
most superpowers are psionic in nature, imo. magneto doesn't wave his hands at metal, he thinks what he wants to happen. arms are just used to look cool.
Desaad speculated once that it was gravity/spacetime manipulation
Anyway he doesn't fly faster than light on earth because it would damage the planet but in space he has flown up to millions of times lightspeed (in Infinite Crisis when he flew from earth to the Andromeda galaxy in a few hours)
not all, but some. i mean, super strength and durability aren't psionic, not totally. he just throws a punch like anyone else would. wind breath is just blowing really hard.
stuff like heat vision, flight and cold breath, though, would have to be psionic in nature i think...
you talking about when he flew to rao with the two supermen?
I'd think that cold breath is just him blowing to cool somthing down, and thats just how cool his breath gets. ad heat vision well hes an uber alien i just figure the yellow sun gives him abilites that we can't understand
Yeah, Rao was stated to be in the Andromeda galaxy which is millions of light - years away, the calculations said it was a few million times lightspeed (that was using 12 hours for the travel time, which was probably an overestimation)
i just remember what yat said about it in glc, how it was almost an automatic response, which would indicate some sort of mental faculty, at least for me...
is this real rao or comic rao? cos afaik, the comics can't seem to decide... i remember they once said krypton was in sector 2813...
wouldn't that just mean its like a defense mechanism, but im sure its actually somthing in their eyes that works it. Obviosuly their mind controls it like it does everything else in their bodies, but i dont think it would be physic in nature.
I would think it is like his Super strength and Durability in that it is just his natural physiology. When a normal person blows hard it is cold air but with Superman it is well, super cold.