Bad Astronomy review of "Superman Returns"

In article , V S Rawat
wrote:

Phantom Stranger wrote:

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Bill Steele wrote:

I recall Brando saying he was imparting to his son all the
knowledge of the however many known galaxies, but I don't believe
it was ever specified that Krypton was outside our own.

"Each of the six galaxies which you will pass through contain their
own individual law of space and time." Kind of a long, roundabout
trip if Krypton is in the Milky Way.

No way.

Laws of physics remain the same across all the galaxies of a single
universe. They "may" be different only in a different parallel universe.

btw, why did he choose a trajectory that was passing THROUGH the 6
galaxies? There is a huge vacuum in between galaxies, he could have
chosen an inter-galactic bye-pass path. Why fiddle with the risk of
colliding against some stray asteroid when you have absolute vacuum
available.


The 1978 film was written by people who had no idea what the difference
is between a solar system and a galaxy. Therefore, we're stuck with
nonsense such as the "known galaxies" and Kal-El passing through a
bunch of them on his way to Earth.

The 1978 people also had no idea what "the laws of space and time"
might be, but the phrase sure sounded good to them.

We can also wonder how green kryptonite got all the way to Earth all
the way from another galaxy without benefit of star drive. We don't
see any being dragged along by Kal-El's ship.