Originally posted by Stoic
how do you know how much Arkansas weighs? Blue Marvel also didn't seem to be struggling with the weight either. I'm just trying to understand how you know how much Arkansas weighs? I looked on www.howstuffworks.com, and could not get a clear answer. This is just more of your made up nonsense, not to mention that the amount of weight that Superman was lifting would have destroyed the metal beam that he was pushing against, but that's comic logic for you. What's your excuse?
H1a8 lies.
I attempted to calculate the mass of Arkansas.
I had to makes a lot of assumptions. So for the purposes of this, Arkansas is a beautiful cube. I originally, not being from the US, assumed it to be a sphere. Then I looked at a map, and remembered the US' love of square states.
So Arkansas is now a square. This obviously overestimates Arkansas' mass, but should do for now.
Area of Arkansas = 137,733,000 metres square (Google)
This gives a cubed volume of 1.616 x 10 to the 21 metres cubed. I assume it is a cube, because if any of the sides were larger, than the asteroid would have been described as 'larger than Arkansas'. But it was 'easily' the size.
The average density of the Earth is 5520kg per metres cubed (Google).
Therefore, the mass of an Arkansas-sized cube is 8.92x10 to the power 15 kg, or about 9 trillion tons.
He used both arms to push it.
Superman, as seen, could do 200 quintillion tons, easily, or as a scale, 200 million trillion tons. On one arm. And that was not his max.