The Physics of Superman

eieken writes "The physics of Superman mostly belong in the realm of comic books, but some scientists decided to give their input on the matter. The article tells of 'a scientific experiment in which a researcher put several chickens in a centrifuge and raised them in twice-normal gravity for months at a time. When they emerged, the chickens were stronger and had larger bones and muscles, and greater endurance. In other words, they were superchickens.' Do they have human sized centrifuges?"

Comments

For more along the lines of the summary...

[Nybarius]

see the book "The Physics of Superheroes". It's about exactly what you would expect.

Re:Larry Niven

[emurphy42]

Ask and ye shall receive.

Development of Supermans Powers Over Time

[David_Shultz]

For anyone interested in the development of Supermans powers as the series progressed, check out this website:

http://www.johnath.com/~david/etc/superman.html

As other posters have mentioned, yes, it is true that he started without flying ability -he could leap only one eighth of a mile. The development of his powers is actually quite staggering, going from what nowadays would be a lesser superhero, to being one of the most powerful superheroes in the combined comic book multiverse.

Re:its that time again...

[jdbartlett]

No, but if you like, you can go through all 10,600 Google results for "welcome our new * overlords":

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aslashdot.org +%22welcome+our+new+*+overlords%22

The excerpt from the Great Mambo Chicken book

[SuperKendall]

If you want to read more details, use the "Inside Book" search on Amazon within the Great Mambo Chicken.

From the search results link above, visit pages 54 and 55 - the sidebars navigate to the next and previous pages.

No I have no affilate link in there (that I am aware of) - call me crazy.