Bad Astronomy review of "Superman Returns"

redhawk wrote:
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[re the Swann episode "Rosetta"]

That places Krypton in our galaxy and outside our solar
system. at least in the Smallverse.

Nope, not based on that scene, which I just checked. (For
anyone aware of my vow not to buy the DVDs before the
series had played out, a later post on r.a.sf.s will explain
why I have access to them right now and the project I've
been working on with them. :-)) It MAY be as you say, but
it could equally be in another galaxy or work as the Krypton-
is-local twist on it. In fact I think it supports the latter as
much as anything.

Although in "Arrival," Clark explicitly tells Chloe:

"I wasn't born anywhere near Smallville. In fact I wasn't born anywhere near
this galaxy."

Agreed that putting Krypton outside the Milky Way is obviously bad science,
but there it is.

Postscript: looking back through the thread, I see that you already did
address this in a previous post. True that Clark was not speaking from
personal knowledge, just wish they hadn't gone there in the first place
so there would be no need to fix it.