Apparently Kryptonite is real and can be found in Serbia. Jadarite, as the new mineral is being called, has the same chemical formula as the fictional Kryptonite: sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. Unfortunately it doesn’t glow green. Superman not available for comment.
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April 25th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Is that anywhere near Addis Ababa, Mr Luthor?
April 26th, 2007 at 11:38 am
I meant to post this last week when someone showed it to me, but I refuse to accept that I have ANY weaknesses. Kryptonite was created for the comics/storyline. A completely invincible superhero, while super cool, does not make for good storytelling … he has to have some sort of weakness, so they came up with some ridiculous kryptonite thing. What the hell is that? Krypton blew up because it’s sun went nova (or something like that … at least that’s what happened in the movie), tiny pieces of that explosion are no more deadly that a warm bucket of hamster vomit.
April 26th, 2007 at 11:54 am
I’d venture a guess that a “warm bucket of hamster vomit” could be quite deadly. Try drinking that sometime and we’ll find out. Hmm… maybe that could be a new hazing ritual.
April 26th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
[geek]
Krypton blew up because of internal pressure that was building due to the runaway radioactive chain-reaction of Kryptonite in its core resulting from a natural process of plate tectonics that gathered the formally geographically sparse material into pockets that then reacted and melted the rock around them, thus allowing more radioactive Kryptonite to gather in clumps, creating a cycle of heating and pressure-building that essentially popped the planet from within.
Any true son of Jor-El would know that, “Superman.”
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April 27th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Right, as an infant, I knew the exact physics of why my home planet exploded.
Zapski, you’re speaking in theories, everyone on the planet is dead, you don’t KNOW that’s what happened, and neither does anyone else.
April 27th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Braniac does. He chronicled the whole thing. Besides, Jor-El knew. It’s why he built the rocket you left in!