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Post by redsycorax on Oct 13, 2023 21:41:43 GMT
Yes, but Superboy was a teenager at the time, and I suspect hormones got in the way!
As a coda to the discussion of planetary development, it'll be interesting to see what happens when exoplanetary spectrography gets precise enough to register the composition of red dwarf exoplanets so we can ascertain how they might differ from G main sequence yellow sun worlds like our own. Unfortunately, we don't have that data at the moment, or even enough erstwhile evidence to ascertain how it might differ.
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Post by dans on Oct 14, 2023 1:33:40 GMT
We know how that is going to turn out... they are going to find a super Earth around a red star (I've always thought Rao was a red giant, but not sure if that is canon or not these days) and it is going to have the same elemental composition as the Earth, though for some still unexplained reason (perhaps because the higher gravity?) it also includes exotic matter in the composition. And evolution has produced some species that are visually identical to humans... instead of being the size of mice because of the higher gravity. (Perhaps the inclusion of exotic matter in 'organic' chemistry somehow alters the effects of gravity on the inhabitants?). This planet will be maybe a hundred light years from Earth, and within weeks of the discovery, the planet will explode with the force of a nova...
and then shortly afterwards, the storm of heavy exotic particles following the light of the explosion will arrive... and everyone on Earth will end up gaining super powers
How can you not know this already?
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Post by redsycorax on Oct 14, 2023 2:02:03 GMT
That may not have occurred in our universe, or it may have occurred out of synch with our own planetary history, either occurring before Earth existed or long after it gets wiped out when our own sun turns into a red giant, which will start about a billion years or so from now. I think current canon has Rao as a red dwarf. And as I've suggested in another thread, perhaps Rao's planetary system existed in the vicinity of a white hole, which might have contributed exotic matter to its protoplanetary disc when Krypton and its surrounding planetary system were still forming. Although Daxamites appear to have identical abilities to Kryptonians apart from their lead vulnerability, so that may mean there was another white hole in the vicinity when that planet formed too. Or perhaps Daxamites descended from a lost Kryptonian colony, or perhaps Daxam was the home world to Kryp and Tonn, Krypton's 'Adam and Eve" (if that's not a Kryptonian myth- I suspect it is, as it doesn't make sense from a genetic diversity perspective; any pandemic would wipe their early descendants out). Or perhaps Krypton and Daxam inhabit the same stellar neighborhood and it's the same white hole? Unfortunately, in our own universe, white holes haven't been detected anywhere as yet- unlike red dwarf exoplanets, which are highly common and sometimes do include superearths at inhabitable range orbital distances, so their existence and properties are only theoretical.
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