Superman's planet Krypton 'found' — with a little help

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

"A prominent astrophysicist has pinned down a real location for Superman's fictional home planet of Krypton."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49697073...science-space/

[Baddad (Marty)]

Hi Hans,

There will be people out there believing that Krypton actually existed.
I have seen and heard all kinds of nonsense of what people believe.

For example: I was in LA some years ago, doing a tourist bus tour through Hollywood area. Ref: Pretty Woman movie. The shop staff that refused to serve Julia Roberts. People complained to the management of that shop and gave them hell. "Why did you not serve Julia Roberts in her hour of shopping need?"

Its true. These people could not distinguish realism from movie fiction.
The owner of that shop paid thousands to change the front so that people no longer related it to the movie.

I now assume a similar issue will come to light about "Krypton".

"Wow, Superman is real! They found where Krypton used to be near that red sun."

Let's see what developes.

Cheers

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Marty, its frightening what people will believe.

[bojan]

Originally Posted by Larryp

Marty, its frightening what people will believe.

Even more frightening is that there is a whole industry out there, feeding on those beliefs.
Sometimes I feel I am actually the stupid one, not them.. you know, not being a part of a pack..

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Originally Posted by bojan

Even more frightening is that there is a whole industry out there, feeding on those beliefs.
Sometimes I feel I am actually the stupid one, not them.. you know, not being a part of a pack..

Its quite sad. So many people are not interested in real knowledge any more.

[Terry B]

Even in fiction it doesn't make sense.
Qoute from the article:
Superman was born on Krypton but was launched toward Earth as an infant by his father, Jor-El, just before the planet's destruction. After touching down in Kansas, Superman was raised as Clark Kent by a farmer and his wife.



So if the planet exploded as superman left how was it found?

[Colin_Fraser]

A prominent astrophysicist...

[goober (Doug)]

Originally Posted by Colin_Fraser

A prominent astrophysicist...

It's Neil Tyson, isn't it, so he sort of is prominent.

[Colin_Fraser]

A prominent astrophysicist...

Originally Posted by goober

It's Neil Tyson, isn't it, so he sort of is prominent.

It's the astrophysicist bit I find funny.