Question about superheroes and sciencific possibility?
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Almost every super hero has a mythology regarding their creation. Take some of the new hit movie's for example, Spider-Man was bitten by a genetically cloned spider at a school sponsored field trip.(not exactly true to the comic) The mutants in the X-men were the product of a sudden leap in evolution, as explained by Patrick Stewart. Batman obtains many of his gadgets from Wayne-Tech Enterprises, and that has produced 3 movies from one film maker, and now a new box office hit, Batman Begins (far superior to the first series) as well as a TV series, a few different cartoon series, and then, 30 years of comic books. I know all this mythology of super-hero's, and I couldn't tell you what happened in any of these. The most important detail of the hero is exactly the question of how they obtained their power, and almost every first look at a hero is the plot line of why they are super-powered. Without selling this storyline, (and to be absolutly clear, scientific origins account for most of them) the hero will probably fail to capture the public eye.
1087201
I had never thought of this, but now that you bring it up I think there's a good possibilty. Superman goes arounf saving "good" guys and fighting "bad" guys, just like Santa judges if people are "naughty" or "nice." Since they both have this superhuman powers, they think they have the right to judge people and go on power trips. Like you say they both fly, although Santa uses reindeer and a sleigh, but they both also have a fondness of the red suit and how else could Santa vistit all those houses in one night, if he were not in fact "faster than a speeding bullet?" They are both apparently fireproof and like the cold. Santa lives a t North Pole and Superman's Fortress of Solitude is in Antartica.
999782
Now this is right up my alley!!  Clumsyman!!! \n\nHe would always be able to trip and fall at exactly the RIGHT  moment to capture the bad guys without firing a single bullet.\n\nHe wouldn't wear a cape because he'd only trip on the dang thing, and that might be at the exact WRONG moment.\n\nHe would never carry a gun, because he might shoot himself in the foot, or worse.  He would definitely NOT be faster than a speeding bullet!!\n\nHe would be able to use the cast on his arm (which he got after trying to leap a tall building at a single bound) to knock the gun out of the bank robber's hand and save the day!!!\n\nHe would be a master at saying "Oh, did I do that?"  after some particularly spectacular fall or after he has dropped the famed Kohlrabi diamond which shattered into a million pieces, thereby proving it was not a diamond after all.\n\nBest of all, he wouldn't need to be a master of disguise because in his everyday life he appears to be such a nebbish that no one would EVER suspect him of being a superhero.
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Superman\n\nAll senses expanded and enhanced.  Vision accross many spectrums, tele & microscopic, x-ray/heat ray enablement. Hearing focus and magnification, offactory focus and magnification.\n\nSuper Strength, Super breath can live in space or bottom of the sea for extended periods, super voice to imitate others or create over a million decibles. \n\nInvulnerability\n\nSelf propelled flight, Time travel into the past\n\nAbility to put self into suspended animation enabling to go into the future.\n\nPhotographic memory, Super Intelligence\n\nWith that collection of enhancements one could  answer all yahoo questions, end world hunger, not to mention having access to a lot of great views.
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I'm not sure whether a human has been cloned yet, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.  My perception is that when something is scientifically possible, it will be done.  The important thing is to have ethical standards around how and under what circumstances it is done.\n\nScience fiction has been dealing with this question for many years, and it is one reason science fiction is so important.  It constitutes a forum for working out the moral values involved in a particular technological advance by "thought experiment" before being done in laboratory experiment.\n\nThe one I have problems with is whether or not clones will have souls.  Somebody asked that on Y!A awhile back, and I answered that it's a question we will need to resolve before we get into cloning humans.  And it's a question that raises a host of others:  What is a soul?  Do people really have such things, or is it just an abstract idea with no basis in "reality."  For that matter, what is "reality?"  ("What a concept!" says Robin Williams.)  If there is really such a thing, how does it get into a person?  What difference would it make if a clone did not have one?\n\nYou see, we have some important questions to answer here.
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If you are Kal-el from Krypton and it's time to complete your destiny, I think you are so ridiculous. Why you are using this intetesting yahoo answers to ask stupid things? Why you dont take time to ask interesting things?\n\nIf you are Kal-El, i tink you are traumatizes seeing Smallville, may be you dream with Super Man in the nigfht about the movie that is coming. I hope you will dont feel crazy. \n\nMay be you feel thatn you are Kal-El because you want to identify your personality with him. The freedon, fly around th word, going to any place? some person told me long time ago that we had wings in a remote time. Atlantis and other interesting references in the lost history tell us about it. I would like fly like a Superman too, but may be the real meaning in Superman is hiding the concepts that our old cultures had about gods, because if the indians and other cultures was adoring gods was because saw so maraveled and amaning things. the theory could make us think that may be superman coul exist before in the time, and we can found references in many old documents in the history. why not you begin to think more deep about your question and try to get information about the past? May be superman will be a old concept in other time and somebody decide to take this information to get rich.
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Yes, it is theoretically possible.\n\nThey key words here are "REALLY powerful gun", and "REALLY high peak".  You learn to look for these types of words when reading physics problems, the word usage is very important in conveying which things to neglect and which to focus on.  In this case, we focus on whether it is possible or not, not in how high the peak is or how powerful the gun since we are told it is "really" powerful and "really" high.
1187475
You know, that's a good question. Maybe we should have a seance & ask Christopher Reeve.
82550
Yes, he could.  Superman can be made temporarily human by the use of Gold Kryptonite.  If he used this while with a woman, he could conceivably, conceive.  If he didn't use the Gold Kryptonite, he'd probably gut her like a fish.  Ewww, I know.  God, I'm such a geek!
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Dear Madame,\n\nYou could try testing wave-particle duality nature of photons, and report on how the theory corresponds with Schodiger's findings in the early 20th century. \n\nAnyone can put a light bulb in a potato. Also, the above response about commercials is about as unscientific as you can get. I don't trust emus.\n\nPianoguy
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I would like to believe so, yes.  I'm not talking about like Superman and all the rest of the kiddies programs, but I am talking about things like telekinesis, telepathy, "seeing dead people" :-), bending spoons, clairvoyance and all the rest of the ones which have actually been proven.  A woman's sixth sense?  Most definitely (I follow mine and have not yet been wrong)!
970490
I don't think any superhero will be able to beat superman. Not even batman. Superman is way stronger than all the superheros because he is from another planet. He could only be beaten if there was a supergod.
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whats your definition of super?\n\nthere are men and woman that risk their lives every day to save others.. I think thats super to me.. \n\nsuperheros in comic books really represent groups of people that make it safe for you and me to live a peacefull life
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The word you are looking for is telekinesis. As for whether it really exists, I expect if anyone had scientific proof of it, it would create quite a stir and you wouldn't have to go digging here to find evidence of it. Neat idea, though. I sure tried to move things with my mind plenty of times as a kid...
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Plastic Man (or Mr Fantastic). I don't like them much as far as characters, but think of those powers. The implications during S_E_X are mind blowing.
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An idea for a nanobot or robot that would be bad news for the world, depending what it could use as building material.\n\nWe really don't want machines replicating in a geometric progression... which they probably couldn't anyway.\n\nIn Sci-Fi they seed places with these nanobots and when activated they build combat equipment after making enough of themselves. That's just fiction though and lets hope it stays that way.
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I think I have to give a two-fold answer to that question.\n\nFirstly, you have to take in context to the storyline, which is basically that world goverments are basically classifying super-beings as walking weapons of mass destruction and are demanding that they come forward and itentify themselves (and their alter egos) so that they can be catalogued and monitored.\n There are those who feel that the governments are asking too much, and refuse, and there are those that step forward and comply. I believe Spider Man is the first one to do so. \n\nIt's refreshing in that this is doing what comics have often done: reflecting modern societal problems and casting them back out there for thought and discussion. Which is certainly what happened when Spidey revealed who he was. \n\nSecondly,there's only so much you can do with a character unless you're willing, as a writer and artist to take risks. Was it a risk? Given the furor that erupted in the media when this was announced, I'd say yes. All art is there to promote thought and discussion, and comic books are not outside that realm. They are a new form of modern literature, combining writing, art, the classic hero's tale smushed up against modern problems. I, for one, thought it was a brilliant idea and very much needed, not only to bring, as you say, fresh life to an old character, but also to force people to look at modern issues that affect *us* everyday...