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- Ganja420, on 04/25/2008, -2/+92WTF this isn't a documentary??
- mindsnare, on 04/25/2008, -7/+70Way to kill the buzz, buzz kill.
Here's something you might want to take into account, it's a god damn movie based on a comic book, picky picky. - justinil, on 04/25/2008, -3/+57Superman can fly around... well that's understandable. But a guy in a suit using futuristic technology? Well that's just ridiculous. It's so unreal, I can't even enjoy the movie.
- oo7evan, on 04/25/2008, -1/+44
Check out the author's book: The Physics of Superheros. He's a physics professor at the University of Minnesota, and a total comic book geek. - threemagic, on 04/25/2008, -4/+37We need an obvious section on digg.
- seantubridy, on 04/25/2008, -0/+29Iron Man, Iron Man, does whatever an....iron.....can? Well, that's boring.
- rudy23, on 04/25/2008, -3/+30Kevin please add the "No *****" category asap.
- adoggz, on 04/25/2008, -0/+21defies physics, or defies modern technology?
- Inverno, on 04/25/2008, -1/+22Next they're going to tell me Spider-Man isn't how radiation driving mutation work, or that X-Men violates the theory of evolution. Can no comic book be trusted to teach the kids advanced science? Think of the chiiiiillllddreeeennn.
- xChunk, on 04/25/2008, -1/+21I have a working replica in my closet.
- carbonetc, on 04/25/2008, -1/+17I think he'll have more to say when he learns how repulsor rays work. That's when the laws of physics start getting seriously broken.
And to the morons who think he's downing the movie, clearly he's not. He's looking forward to seeing it. He's just saying, "Hey, here's a little physics lesson now that you've seen the movie, if you're interested." How dare an educator try to educate. - lamiaconfitor, on 04/25/2008, -0/+15ALGORITHM!
- yournamehere, on 04/25/2008, -1/+15Is Tom Cruise in there? Tell him it's ok to come out.
- inactive, on 04/25/2008, -1/+13If Iron Man actually said "talk to the hand" in the movie, I would get up and murder every single person in the theatre.
- diadem2, on 04/25/2008, -2/+14"i don't know how this works, but it's wrong"
thanks, doc.
If most of his arguments come from energy requirements and not output, then he doesn't defy the laws of physics. For all we know the guy has safe antimatter storage or whatever. Do you know? Because I don't. He has technology available to him that's not available to us. Just because you don't know how to do it doesn't mean it defies the laws of physics, it means you don't know how to do it yourself. - ozymandias2012, on 04/25/2008, -1/+12Really....you can't build jet boots? Damn.
- lamiaconfitor, on 04/25/2008, -0/+11Practical energy constraints get me every time.
- Jsmuli2, on 04/25/2008, -1/+11I kind of hate it and love it when people try to explain why movie/comic book stuff can't be real unless something big and bulky was required.
What's even more interesting is that back in the 40s and 50s they thought a home computer would take up an entire wall in a house. So who knows, in 50 years, this suit might be pretty feasible. - Aerandir, on 04/25/2008, -1/+11sucks like 99.99% of your buried comments.
Cut the crap, seriously. - xChunk, on 04/25/2008, -2/+11Yeah, because Batman Begin sucked so much.
/sarcasm. - surKaz, on 04/25/2008, -2/+10Professor He...
The work he's doing is much like any other superheros.
And with a name like Professor He.... Hmm.. - Charlotte_Web, on 04/25/2008, -0/+8Professor Helium? The next supervillain?
"Transformed into a vaporous cloud, the evil Professor Helium, with his squeaky, shrill voice, gripped the city in terror..." - halleyscomet, on 04/25/2008, -0/+8Why is there always some moron who pisses and moans about the number of diggs that were needed to get a story to the front page? Don't like it? Create your won Digg.com site, or if you're too lazy for that, GTFO.
- shadeOfGrey, on 04/25/2008, -0/+7And if I were one of your victims, I would welcome the sweet embrace of death.
- flaknugget, on 04/25/2008, -1/+8OH NOES!!!!
I hope this doesn't start a trend of fantasy in movies. This is the real threat to America! - Orrent, on 04/25/2008, -1/+8Really??
- BoneheadFarker, on 04/25/2008, -1/+8Tim Burton's vision wasn't too bad. It was Joel Schumacher, history's greatest monster, that killed the Batman franchise...
- evodude, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6Kakalios is a fantastic professor, too. I'm actually enrolled in his intro physics course right now. He's always cracking jokes and making obscure references to movies and the Simpsons and stuff, and the entire first exam was made up of superhero problems. He really is great.
- surKaz, on 04/25/2008, -0/+6Oh.. See here, I have some pants that just came out the dryer..
- inactive, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5It's like someone has to say that on every story.
For the answer see above. - rohcky, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5I'm loving the future past tense.
- bosssmiley, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5Answer: it's a way of trying to smuggle educational information in under the radar.
- inactive, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5They mostly come out at night...mostly...
- JettaMan, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5This suit is old technology. Medieval knights had metal head-to-toe body armor way long ago.
- offcenter, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5Shocka! Comic books aren't reality!?
This means I'm not really a Jedi Knight! - TyrannousDotNet, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5this article is essentially crapping on the fact we dont have the energy/capacity technology, this is also a coming book where such a power source is available. whos to say we wont invent some totally efficient energy system in the near future, we could go on how unrealistic stargate is since we dont really have a Zero point energy system...
- punkcat, on 04/25/2008, -0/+5next thing you know they are going to tell us Superman can't fly
- mwalker05, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4well im no physics professor, but im pretty sure i already knew that jet boots and laserbeams destroying things wasnt possible yet...
- brundlefly76, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4Thats why Watchmen will kick ass - they have no superpowers!
Oh except the blue guy. And niteowl has some questionable gadgets. - mercano, on 04/25/2008, -0/+4I thought dieing of cancer was Iron Man's thing.
- merper, on 04/25/2008, -2/+6Seriously, chill with the "Hello, Captain Obvious" comments. Scientists and engineers take a lot cues from fantasy and comics. The guy's just doing a feasibility study. I think it's cool to see how close reality is to our imaginations.
- HaSatan, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3stay tuned for next weeks article, "Gandalf: Does his magic really fit into Gods plan?"
- halleyscomet, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3Well, that would give Iron Man a few minutes of fly time and two, perhaps three blasts from his Ray.
Depressing, isn't it? - jonshipman, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3Maybe something like Mr. Fusion that can convert matter into energy?
Then a suit like Iron Man's could just absorb the atoms in the air then split them to release the energy.
Of course if he files into space he's SOL - halleyscomet, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3ALMOST killed the franchise. It just needed a reboot to bring it back.
- exhume, on 04/25/2008, -3/+6What? You mean I can't jump off a cliff, stay suspended in mid-air, look at the camera, pull out a sign that says "Oops!", then fall hundreds to feet to the ground? Da noive!
- dierien2001, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3WTF.. You mean I cant build my own suit?
- bosssmiley, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3By rights that everything has propellors thing *should* look really cool. I mean, have you ever seen the airships in Bryan Talbot's "Luther Arkwright"?
- CannedMango, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3I miss the 50's space movies where the flames from the rocket curved "up".
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