I've been reading the "Forever Evil" crossover from DC comics. Now, I have an entire other rant about some of the trends in comics later, but that's not today's focus. On the first day of the Crime Syndicate's appearance in the DC universe, Ultraman (the Earth 3 opposite of Superman) pulls the moon to create an eclipse of the sun because the sun is poisonous to him. The eclipse darkens the entire Earth.
The entire Earth. . .
In a solar eclipse due to the moon. . .
You know, the moon that's one sixth the size of the Earth. . .
It's somehow blocking all of the sun's rays from hitting any point on the Earth. . .
Never mind the aliens, super powers, alternate universes, the fact that Ultraman could move the moon, or that somehow the moon stays perfectly in place after a single alignment, THIS complete misunderstanding of how eclipses work has my blood boiling. There are going to be people who believe this sort of thing is a possibility, who will think that just because they are seeing a solar eclipse, everyone in the world is seeing a solar eclipse. How did the editors even let that pass?
I know . . . I know . . . a person reading stories about beings with super powers probably shouldn't get upset over nit-picky science-y things like this, but . . .
SERIOUSLY?!
The entire Earth. . .
In a solar eclipse due to the moon. . .
You know, the moon that's one sixth the size of the Earth. . .
It's somehow blocking all of the sun's rays from hitting any point on the Earth. . .
Never mind the aliens, super powers, alternate universes, the fact that Ultraman could move the moon, or that somehow the moon stays perfectly in place after a single alignment, THIS complete misunderstanding of how eclipses work has my blood boiling. There are going to be people who believe this sort of thing is a possibility, who will think that just because they are seeing a solar eclipse, everyone in the world is seeing a solar eclipse. How did the editors even let that pass?
I know . . . I know . . . a person reading stories about beings with super powers probably shouldn't get upset over nit-picky science-y things like this, but . . .
SERIOUSLY?!
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