In Superman The Animated Series Batman (and the Joker) discover that a jade dragon is actually made out of kryptonite because the owners die after a few months.
And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.
So at least in those universes it's also harmful for humans.
And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.
In Smallville, the spacecraft carrying Superman brings a kryptonite meteor swarm with it. Lex's exposure to the meteors is the cause of his premature baldness and a partial reason for his resentment of The Alien.
Lex and Superboy are friends until Lex starts and gets caught in a chemical smoke party, which Superboy blows out with his super breath. In the process, he blows smoke into Lex Luthor's hair, which falls out. Then Lex swears to, "use all of my scientific genius to one day destroy you."
It's so strange that nobody did a good music video for that song with scenes from Man of Steel. I always thought that one would fit great. There's a Smallville one but I don't like it very much.
I'm sure I could outrun a koala bear. Which isn't fighting, and koala's aren't bears, but I totally could!
Also, technically, I can beat any bear in a fistfight, because bears can't make fists and would thus be disqualified immediately upon disemboweling me!
If we're talking pure elements at room temperature, people can die from extended contact/eating/breathing beryllium, fluorine, phosphorous, hlorine, chromium, cobalt, arsenic, cadmium, antimony, cesium, mercury, thallium, lead, bismuth, polonium, radium, thorium, uranium, plutonium, and americium. That doesn't even count all of the heavier than air gases that will kill you in a couple of deep breaths. People are very squishy and prone to getting injured by things.
Anything solid of decent mass can basically do us in. A glass bottle with an I love Kitty logo on it at 70mph right to the skull for example. So yeah, a rock, so long as it is large enough, could do it.
If you make a piece of dust of about 1microgram fly to someone at about 99% of c, or about 290'000km/s, with Ek=(1/2)mv², we get an energy equivalent to 42'050'000J, or about 10kg of TNT.
The dust would probably vaporise instantaneously, so it would be the resulting explosion that would be deadly if you fired at point blank range.
But if you find a dust accelerator that can get enough power for that. It stays technically possible.
I don’t understand. The point isn’t that we are not vulnerable to something similar, it’s that Superman is nearly invulnerable. So, my brother in Christ, this is not a retort.
What I wonder: according to lore the conditions, where supermans people live, on krypton are so harsh that they are a strong race that is like humans under those conditions.
Now sth. With the sun is there too, but lets put that aside for a moment.
So Supermans weakness is a rock of krypton. Because the rock itself must be super radioactive or sth like that.
Anything that harms superman should kill every human in the area instantly.
Counterpoint: What if Superman has an element in his body that is crucial to his makeup that is specifically destroyed/harmed by the radioactivity, while that radioactivity passes harmlessly through any other element?An anti-krypton element of sorts, if you will.
Krypton, for example, could be emitting a wave with incredibly low amplitude, but incredibly high frequency. This combination would struggle to make contact with the atoms in normally-dense objects here on Earth, but would strike an ultra-dense object like anti-krypton like a truck.
Doesn’t work with our current understanding of physics.
Hang on I can nerd this harder. It could sort of work if it’s a data signal that exists as noise which disrupts the nervous system of a Superman, but is ignored by the nervous system of a Human.
Arsenic and mercury, both commonly occurring metals present in rocks, can kill humans immediately. Especially if vaporized. Uranium can kill and disable quickly in high enough concentrations.
Also, keep in mind it's a plot device about a fictional flying space alien with laser eyes. It doesn't need to follow the laws of physics.
But then they’re not rocks. It’s a vapor or a metal. That also actually disqualifies uranium as well since the rock isn’t what’s dangerous, it’s the radiation that destroys your cells. With Superman it’s literally just a rock.
I mean yes, but so is to much air, to little air, time, gravity, the sun, pointy sticks, our own biology every form of life in existence and failure to poop correctly.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social · 138 pts · 242d
Doesn't even need to be a magic rock. A regular one thrown at your head also does wonders.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 241d
Shit, even a crack rock can do it.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 241d
In fairness, Doomsday beat Superman in a straight knuckle dust up, no kryptonite required. So that's also a Superman weakness.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 67 pts · 242d
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 42 pts · 242d
In Superman The Animated Series Batman (and the Joker) discover that a jade dragon is actually made out of kryptonite because the owners die after a few months.
And in some of the stories Lex Luthor loses his hair because of his kryptonite experiments.
So at least in those universes it's also harmful for humans.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 241d
In Smallville, the spacecraft carrying Superman brings a kryptonite meteor swarm with it. Lex's exposure to the meteors is the cause of his premature baldness and a partial reason for his resentment of The Alien.
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 241d
In the mainline comics of the ‘80s and ‘90s, wearing a kryptonite ring day after day gave him incurable cancer.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 241d
Lex and Superboy are friends until Lex starts and gets caught in a chemical smoke party, which Superboy blows out with his super breath. In the process, he blows smoke into Lex Luthor's hair, which falls out. Then Lex swears to, "use all of my scientific genius to one day destroy you."
Voice acting: 3/10
Animation: 3/10
Writing: 2/10
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Etterra@discuss.online · 35 pts · 241d
Everybody's weakness is a rock if you hit them with it hard enough.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 242d
Ah man I've not heard Kryptonite in years
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 242d
I have a short playlist of Superman songs.
Always looking for more.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 242d
What about "(I'm No) Superman" by Lazlo Bane, aka the Scrubs theme song?
Zagam@piefed.social · 9 pts · 242d
You Don't Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce isn't directly about him but does give good advice on treating this wardrobe with respect.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 241d
Silvergun Superman - stone Temple pilots
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 241d
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 241d
How could you miss Superman by Goldfinger
sundray@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 242d
Superman - Love Spit Love
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 241d
Hero 77 - Bombay Street
Mentions batman, superman, spiderman, Mr incredible, but it's not a song about them.
TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
Superman's Song - Crash Test Dummies
I sing it to my son at bedtime.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 241d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKiVSuDEF2c
bstix@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 241d
You forgot the best one: Kashmir - Bring back Superman
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 241d
Scrubs theme song - Superman - Lazlo BaneAlready covered
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
No One Likes Superman Anymore - I Fight Dragons
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 2 pts · 242d
It's so strange that nobody did a good music video for that song with scenes from Man of Steel. I always thought that one would fit great. There's a Smallville one but I don't like it very much.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 241d
Kryptonite lays him out right away even from a reasonable distance.
Even the plutonium demon core won't kill us right away.
A little touch of hydrogen cyanide and we're gone though. We're fragile AF
sparkles@piefed.zip · 21 pts · 241d
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 241d
I means it's simple really. As the bear charges, I dodge to the side, aim for the eye and with a quick jab...get mauled and die painfully
frog@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 241d
Bro, I will use my 3 months of bbj to slip behind the bear and put him in a rear naked choke. That's right, I am going bear back.
This is the moment I wake up from a mix of blood loss and concussion from one swipe of his paw.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 241d
Bears can't make a fist, so they're at a disadvantage. Now if it were a claw fight, we might be in trouble.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 241d
I'm sure I could outrun a koala bear. Which isn't fighting, and koala's aren't bears, but I totally could!
Also, technically, I can beat any bear in a fistfight, because bears can't make fists and would thus be disqualified immediately upon disemboweling me!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 241d
... Koala bear wins in the long run via giving you chlamydia.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 241d
If we're talking pure elements at room temperature, people can die from extended contact/eating/breathing beryllium, fluorine, phosphorous, hlorine, chromium, cobalt, arsenic, cadmium, antimony, cesium, mercury, thallium, lead, bismuth, polonium, radium, thorium, uranium, plutonium, and americium. That doesn't even count all of the heavier than air gases that will kill you in a couple of deep breaths. People are very squishy and prone to getting injured by things.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 241d
Also, if you throw them hard enough, all the other elements will kill you too.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 241d
Depleted Uranium APFSDS Round says Hello!
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 241d
Eating a "normal" rock might kill you too depending on the size/shape/sharpness and how quickly you can get medical attention.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 241d
Good point!
ronl2k@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
Would have been a more useful list if OP had excluded eating, since humans can be killed by eating almost everything not intended as food.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F8q7kwetzlbf41.jpg
tomiant@piefed.social · 11 pts · 241d
"What if I pretend like people are saying something stupid and then cleverly refute it? Yes, that will make an excellent meme."
Agent641@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 241d
altphoto@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 241d
Anything solid of decent mass can basically do us in. A glass bottle with an I love Kitty logo on it at 70mph right to the skull for example. So yeah, a rock, so long as it is large enough, could do it.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 241d
It's all about the joules imparted.
A small enough rock going fast enough is just as deadly as a large one traveling slower.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 241d
Below the mm size it does get harder to make something deadly.
TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 241d
If you make a piece of dust of about 1microgram fly to someone at about 99% of c, or about 290'000km/s, with Ek=(1/2)mv², we get an energy equivalent to 42'050'000J, or about 10kg of TNT.
The dust would probably vaporise instantaneously, so it would be the resulting explosion that would be deadly if you fired at point blank range.
But if you find a dust accelerator that can get enough power for that. It stays technically possible.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 241d
Someone stuck their head into a particle accelerator remember?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
In general you need to be in vacuum for any of this to work because a small mass has a small mean free path in atmosphere.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 241d
That's just exponentials coming into play. Area vs mass.
A micrometeorite can sure fuck up an astronaut at orbital velocities.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 241d
Yeah but that's in near vacuum.
pipe01@programming.dev · 4 pts · 240d
Hmm what if it didn't have the hello kitty logo?
subterfuge@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 242d
So is a kidney stone
shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 241d
Been through two medical fears already, catheter up my dick (3 times) and a broken femur. Kidney stones are still on my bucket list!
Boss brought his to work one day for show and tell.
"That came out your urethra?!"
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
As someone who has passed about a dozen over my lifetime... I wish you may never have to go through it. I'd rather have the catheters.
slappyfuck@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 241d
I don’t understand. The point isn’t that we are not vulnerable to something similar, it’s that Superman is nearly invulnerable. So, my brother in Christ, this is not a retort.
Johanno@feddit.org · 5 pts · 241d
What I wonder: according to lore the conditions, where supermans people live, on krypton are so harsh that they are a strong race that is like humans under those conditions.
Now sth. With the sun is there too, but lets put that aside for a moment.
So Supermans weakness is a rock of krypton. Because the rock itself must be super radioactive or sth like that.
Anything that harms superman should kill every human in the area instantly.
Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 241d
Dude it's comic book magic and bullshit, don't overthink it.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 241d
Counterpoint: What if Superman has an element in his body that is crucial to his makeup that is specifically destroyed/harmed by the radioactivity, while that radioactivity passes harmlessly through any other element?An anti-krypton element of sorts, if you will.
Krypton, for example, could be emitting a wave with incredibly low amplitude, but incredibly high frequency. This combination would struggle to make contact with the atoms in normally-dense objects here on Earth, but would strike an ultra-dense object like anti-krypton like a truck.
Johanno@feddit.org · 5 pts · 241d
Theoretically possible, but doesn't work with our current understanding of physics.
However when you add aliens and other magic bs it doesn't matter what physics say. So your explanation could actually work here.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 240d
Hang on I can nerd this harder. It could sort of work if it’s a data signal that exists as noise which disrupts the nervous system of a Superman, but is ignored by the nervous system of a Human.
Johanno@feddit.org · 2 pts · 240d
Damn you are good. Lol
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 241d
Exactly. I don't claim to be some sort of super man
Oppopity@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 241d
Yeah but I'm not super. How's he supposed to call himself super if he's weak to the same shit I am.
Obnomus@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 241d
Nice try but I eat Uranium for breakfast.
Etterra@discuss.online · 7 pts · 241d
That's just so many calories.
Cliff@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 241d
I think we all eat Uranium for breakfast.
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 241d
Speak for yourself, I eat cyanide and hydrogen
Obnomus@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 238d
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 242d
Yeah but uranium kills you after a bit, kryptonite takes him out instantly.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 21 pts · 242d
If that was the case, Superman would have died more than once.
essell@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 242d
I've not read the comics but I imagine hr has, a few times?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 242d
I only know of 1 time and kryptonite wasn't even used. Doomsday just beat him to death.
Kalothar@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 241d
Depending on the writer, there are three consistent kryptonite types:
Green weakens him, but overall it doesn’t kill him. Strips his powers, makes him faint or just weak and nauseous.
Blue just takes his powers away either temporarily or permanently
Red intoxicates him or enhances his impulsiveness/brashness
There are others, but they kind of shift of just don’t exist in the main canon
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 242d
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 242d
Did he die though?
hansolo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 242d
Arsenic and mercury, both commonly occurring metals present in rocks, can kill humans immediately. Especially if vaporized. Uranium can kill and disable quickly in high enough concentrations.
Also, keep in mind it's a plot device about a fictional flying space alien with laser eyes. It doesn't need to follow the laws of physics.
himitsu@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 242d
But then they’re not rocks. It’s a vapor or a metal. That also actually disqualifies uranium as well since the rock isn’t what’s dangerous, it’s the radiation that destroys your cells. With Superman it’s literally just a rock.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 242d
Doesn't kryptonite just rob him of his power and severely weaken him? It's like uranium both the time accelerated.
OneStepAhead@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 241d
What if the uranium (depleted)is traveling over 1000fps from a GAU88? Checkmate atheist!
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 241d
I believe the gau-8 muzzle velocity is around 1000 meters per second
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 241d
it only weakens him, longer exposure can kill him. blue can negate his powers, red makes his inhibitions less. theres also gold and black(synthetic)
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 242d
One big rock from space can wipe out the entire planet.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 242d
Rock + Isaac Newton = death
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 242d
You can brain anyone with a rock.
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 242d
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 241d
That's my kind of rock right there!
Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 241d
Most rocks are my weakness, if thrown hard enough
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 240d
I mean yes, but so is to much air, to little air, time, gravity, the sun, pointy sticks, our own biology every form of life in existence and failure to poop correctly.
TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 241d
leftascenter@jlai.lu · 11 pts · 241d
profitdie. You summoned 1lb rock of pure polonium 212 and stayed.TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 241d
Damn it, i knew i forgot something🤦♂️
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
Not only a single type. There is a lot of toxic or radioactive elements in nature
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 241d
plutonium is also poisonous beyond the radiation it emits.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 241d
I defy OP to link me to a source of someone both:
unironically making fun of Superman for having a rock as his weakness, and
not already being challenged immediately on their statement within that same source
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 240d