Originally posted by JudeMustard: I always had a problem with TEHI and the whole ultraviolet light and infrared light thing. I mean, hello? Infrared light is heat, duh!
I'm not sure why that matters. But the simple fact that UV and IR light are not "opposites" in any meaningful way, and one would not reverse the other . . .
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It was just bad science all the way through.
Oh, yeah!
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But, since we are, after all, watching a science fiction show in which a guy can fly and shoot laser beams out of his eyes, I guess I can suspend some disbelief and just enjoy the show
Comic-book physics!
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And another one -- it looked like Clark was put into the ship as a newborn and was at least a few months old when he reached Earth. How did Jor-El and Lara get around the problems of feeding the infant on the journey? Better yet, how about the other, messier issue? Now see the Amazing Kryptonian Automatic Diaper-Changer! Gotta get me one of those
Suspended animation, with an awakening sequence triggered by (choose one) the impact of landing, the pod being opened, entering a planet's gravitational pull.
Yeah, the scientific nonsense was annoying. Then again, it wasn't all that much worse than Star Trek, and there's a book explaining how that might work (although it involves a whole bunch of hand-waving ). Closest we seem to have is this .
Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you, like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says, "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly.