Serene said:
Now I'm confused. How long exactly was baby Clark floating through space before he reached Earth?
Ya got me, but it
could have been quite a long time. If folks *really* need technobabble to explain this, I'll give it a shot. But lets first remember that this is SV. It's not the Donner film, and it's not the comics - even if it's
vaguely based on those things. (Damn, I love that word!)
Aight, in an effort to keep it simple, here's two dialog excerpts from Rosetta and Arrival:
From Rosetta:
Clark: Is that where Krypton is?
Swann: No, that's where Krypton was. I followed the signal's path billions of miles out into space. I was hoping to discover its origin but instead, I found nothing.
Fiction: Krypton is "billions of miles" away.
Fact: Light travels through the vacuum of space at 186,282 miles per second. In one year, light will travel 5,880,534,262,081 miles.
From Arrival:
Clark: I wasn't born anywhere near Smallville. In fact, I wasn't born anywhere near this galaxy.
Fact: It is approximately 75,000 light years to the farthest edge of our galaxy.
Conclusion: Krypton must be at *least* 75,000 light years away, which means it took at least 75,000 years for the signal to reach us, which means it blew up at least 75,000 years ago.
I still hate math.
JackMercy said:
Look, all I can say is that the pizza chefs are not really interested in specific Kryptonian timelines or scientific inconsistencies. If they really were, they would have just done a show about Stephen Hawking.
Bottom line is, the chefs plan on making a pizza with certain kinds of ingredients, in a certain way. And the advantages to making this pie a certain way far outweigh the disadvantages. So...
You can either
A) eat the pizza and accept it for what it is
Or
B) go hungry that night...or month...or season...
Thank you!!! Some things are wicked easy if you just suspend disbelief. If a major motion picture director can get away with it, so can a "blasphemous" TV show, right Jack?
I'm procrastinating my workout. Be back later.
