Superman vs Earth

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Juntai Divine Vengeance

Originally posted by Cartesian Doubt
That was written (by Geoff Johns) before the red sunlight blocks his powers John Brusiek retcon, when red Solar radiation depleted his energy stores. He was therefore using the energy stored up in his Cellular batteries.

This being the Key Quote :

"The bad news is, for Superman to push a planet with the force described above, he would have to burn up 2 quintillion tons of matter each second. "

This is Trillion times more energy than the Sun gives off a second - Even if you take Superman's ability to store Sunlight energy, it would still take over 30, 000 years (and that's if he absorbs ALL the Sun's energy - Killing everyone on earth in the process) to absorb enough energy to move the Earth for a second.

Oh, but his [depleted] energy stores enough to move a mass 16 times that and it's all kosher with you, or are you just dodging?

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Originally posted by Juntai
Oh, but his [depleted] energy stores enough to move a mass 16 times and that and it's all kosher with you, or are you just dodging?

That is a good point

Juntai Divine Vengeance

By that science, he'd have to absorb all the suns energy for nearly 500,000 years.

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Originally posted by Cartesian Doubt
I know what you mean by implied - but sometimes I think its more a case of Writers forgetting where his powers come from, rather that suggesting that a new power source is involved - Kind of like Ad hocking to this scenario to drive the story.

I think its one of those situations where a writer's explanation of the feat is actually less impressive than the feat itself due to a lack of imagination/poor understanding of scale. Much like the Flash Nuke feat which is clearly FTL if you analyze the numbers but described as sub luminal in the captions by the writer himself, or alternatively like Deathstroke kicking through Lex Luthor's armor's shield despite the fact that the caption only puts his strength as that of "ten men", far below the level of strength such a feat would require.

-Pr- Hey Yo!

It's been stated already that Superman doesn't just absorb sunlight and convert it. There was that issue where they saw his organ that converts it or somesuch. Been a while since i read it though...

h1a8 Senior Member

Byrne on his old site, I think hinted at Superman's power is part psionic and that solar energy helps him absorb energy from his true source (another dimension possibly). The more solar energy he absorbs the more extra dimensional energy he can absorb. Maybe solar energy is used to open the portal. The more the solar energy and stronger his will is then the wider the portal can be opened.

-Pr- Hey Yo!
Originally posted by h1a8
Byrne on his old site, I think hinted at Superman's power is part psionic and that solar energy helps him absorb energy from his true source (another dimension possibly). The more solar energy he absorbs the more extra dimensional energy he can absorb. Maybe solar energy is used to open the portal. The more the solar energy and stronger his will is then the wider the portal can be opened.

that's cyclops.

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Originally posted by -Pr-
that's cyclops.

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Originally posted by h1a8
Byrne on his old site, I think hinted at Superman's power is part psionic and that solar energy helps him absorb energy from his true source (another dimension possibly). The more solar energy he absorbs the more extra dimensional energy he can absorb. Maybe solar energy is used to open the portal. The more the solar energy and stronger his will is then the wider the portal can be opened.
Originally posted by -Pr-
that's cyclops.

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Originally posted by -Pr-
It's been stated already that Superman doesn't just absorb sunlight and convert it. There was that issue where they saw his organ that converts it or somesuch. Been a while since i read it though...
is that still consistant these days?

like, does connor have that also, or a partial one cause of the human dna?

-Pr- Hey Yo!

Originally posted by psycho gundam
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is that still consistant these days?

like, does connor have that also, or a partial one cause of the human dna?

no idea as far as connor goes.

it hasn't been retconned, and the comic isn't that old, so i don't see why not...

Cartesian Doubt Cognito il Sum
Originally posted by -Pr-
It's been stated already that Superman doesn't just absorb sunlight and convert it. There was that issue where they saw his organ that converts it or somesuch. Been a while since i read it though...

He would still have to convert 500 quadrillion tons of matter per second to move a planet for a second. Thats a lot of matter, we're talking a 1000 Mount Everest's per second.

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Originally posted by psycho gundam
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is that still consistant these days?

No it was a one off, it hasn't been referenced since.

-Pr- Hey Yo!
Originally posted by Cartesian Doubt
He would still have to convert 500 quadrillion tons of matter per second to move a planet for a second. Thats a lot of matter, we're talking a 1000 Mount Everest's per second.

which is why i brought up what i did. i'd be very suprised if it was a 1:1 ratio, tbh...