Citizen Steele vs Superman fist fight

^ That's pretty spot-on. I just looked it up in my Nancy Caroline Anatomy&Physiology book I got in medic class, and it is says that the average adult male has approximately 17 square feet of integument (skin.)

12 inches in a foot.

17 square feet = 204 inches

280,000lbs psi = 57,120,000lbs

That totals up to 28,560 short tons

And 25,909.196 metric tons.

Originally posted by KingD19
17 square feet = 204 inches

This is why I don't do math, lol.

2,448 square inches.

~343,000 tons across the surface of the entire body for pressure.

meh.

when you do the math, it doesn't sound as impressive as it should be.

Originally posted by Existere
Well, that's blatantly false. If you grew up in an average one-family house, you probably had a floor space ~2500 square feet.

A quick (and very rough) google search says that the human body could have 14-18 square feet of surface area. Using that as a ballpark figure, square inches would definitely come out to over 2000.

Yeah, I just looked at the wiki answer again and it said 1500 sq inches. Admittedly, these numbers mean squat to me, as I'm not an architect or mathematically inclined, but I suppose I glanced at the screen wrong and saw the five and a couple of zeros and put it down lol.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_square_inches_of_skin_cover_the_human_body

Originally posted by KingD19
Yeah, his armor is like 280,000lbs psi because his strength is so great and uncontrollable he can't take a step without destroying the ground without it. Or hitting a person and killing them.