Been looking for a canon explanation for this:

Been looking for a canon explanation for this:

Didn't Krypton have the tech times 200 for a fucktonne of people to survive the joint exploding?

For instance, why didn't a significant number of them escape to the Phantom Zone for a bit?

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because everyone thought jor el was fucking nuts when he said the planet was going to explode so only his wife and brother believed him so he made his space ship for his son and his not as smart brother made a not as fast ship for his daughter.

If accurate, thank you, dear.

They Kryptonian scientific community was perfectly aware of the core changes long before. The government defunded research political reasons and outright suppressed whatever got done anyway.

1-Imagine is climate change deniers were 99% of the cientific community
2-Krypton was extremely xenophobic, the stopped exploring the universe hundreds of years before.
3-building a rocket was like building a boat to escape cuba


There you go

There actually were a handful of Kryptonian colonies, like the planet Daxam. They have similar powers to Kryptonians. Sodam Yat was a Daxamite.

Weren't Kryptonian explosion deniers more LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU ALSO IT'S HERESY I WEAR PANTS ON MY HEAD than paid shills who actually put in some of their postgrads' hours to produce an argument?

All the space tech was in Kandor

Is mon el a daxomite? Or is that only in the supergirl show.

Krypton had achieved the scientific and cultural apex of their civilization, and withdrew most of their colonies and ships to turn inward because the government thought that intermingling with other planets caused civil unrest and led to an impure civilization. They believed that they knew everything their was to know (or at least everything their civilization needed to know,) so anything that challenged that was seen as a challenge to Krypton's perfect society.

>For instance, why didn't a significant number of them escape to the Phantom Zone for a bit?

The Phantom Zone is suggested by Jor-El income continuities, and it results in his theories immidediately being thrown out. The thing about the Phantom Zone is that it is not a secret clubhouse or even a prison- it is literally Hell.

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>It was later revealed that the Phantom Zone is in fact the mythical "Underworld", home to the likes ofHades, Annyn, Erishkagal andPluto.

So not only was Jor-El threatening the infallibility of the Kryptonian government, but he was also telling everyone to send every man, woman, and child to actual Hell.

Look at it this way: the world's scientists overwhelmingly agree that we are already undergoing the effects of climate change, yet more than half of the government calls them fools and refuses to act. Economists like David Levy warned of the global financial crisis before '07 but nobody listened.

If people in our world can't be convinced to do something, what makes you think another planet would be any different- especially when just one guy is warning them?

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brainiac sometimes has a hand in covering it up and hes suppose to be some super important AI for their whole civilization who would go over the data to check if something was true or not

Krypton had an extremely rigid, backwards society. They had a caste system, and depending on continuity they also shunned personal interaction. They were also extremely xenophobic, and depending on continuity they also had a genetic modifier in them that killed them if they ever left their planet (Jor-El fixed this defect for his son).

What Jor-El proposed was heretical in not one but like 4 levels simultaneously.
- Krypton blowing up due to weapons we defeated 100000 years ago? Bringing up that past is heresy!
- Build starships where all kryptonians are cooped up together? Heresy!
- Escape from Krypton into the stars? Heresy!
- Live on some other poor ass-backwards planet? Heresy!

Plus the councils instruments could not verify his claims either, and they were too preoccupied with finding a cure for the Green Plague (green K poisoning caused by the core of the planet going radioactive). Jor-El looked into the cause of that and noticed that the planet is about to explode, so timing may have been a factor too - they simply didn't have enough time.

Mon-El is a daxamite, yes. Always was. And he got stuck in the Phantom Zone because he got fatal lead poisoning, and was stuck there for a long time until one of the future Brainiacs gave him a cure.

Because we were lucky, that's why.

Storytime.

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As funny as that is, it's not really an equivalent. Jor-El was not some bumbling hick, he was one of the top scientific minds in the planet, and space travel and the existence of life in other planets was commonplace in Krypton, so he wasn't just strapping a baby into a tin rocket.

Well fuck, why is supergirl the only accurate cw show

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You know, if they had a planet full of Kryptonite, it makes you wonder why the cosmic bad guys didn't use it more often - there was ample supply.

I think Cyborg Superman used a piece as the core of his ships fusion reactor in the Death & Return storyline, but that was it.

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Everyone on Krypton except Jor-El and the population of Kandor was 100% completely retarded. Jor-El was slightly retarded, Kandor was almost completely retarded, so Brainiac stole the entire city safe in the knowledge that only like 90% of them would choke on their own tongues at some point.

Here it comes, the storyline within the storyline.

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>climate change denial

There's a massive world of difference between the world getting hotter in small steps and the entire fucking planet exploding all at once.

It seems silly in retrospect that they didn't think that was a thing.

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Kryptonians are assholes.

Funny how they use the golden age S logo there.

uh-oh.

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The end.

>Trump and his men hate climate change
>Making people believe it doesn't exist
>Trump and his men fight hard to have it shut down in scientific communities and people shut up about it.
>Will work because he's president now.
>Fate of planet sealed like Krypton
Who will we send out as our Superman Sup Forumsmrades?

Hillary

Elon Musk 's wife's son.

The pre-Crisis explanation is as follows, mind you this was the 'Buck Rogers with handbands' Krypton.

-Although they had pretty good internal tech they were nervous about space exploration since they had been conquered by an invading alien race called the Vrangs & didn't know what else could be out there. They had lunar colonies and were inching towards galactic exploration.

-When Jor-El discovered Krypton was doomed a lot of peers and a good chunk of the population DID believe him (Jor-El was a rock star of science), and a massive exodus movement taking place with space arks being prepped. Problem was that Kandor was the staging ground, so it was kind of ironic that the Kandroians were mostly folks who thought Jor-El was right were scooped up by Braniac

- Jor-El lost his support, his followers & a lot of his will.

- Jax-Ur, their top rocket scientist was testing missiles to stage a coup & accidentally blew up one of their Moons with its colonists.

- After the trial the Science Council decide they really didn't NEED to go into space & voted to ban all experiments in rocketry & space travel. Even to the point that they would arrest aliens who visited (like Mon-El) cuz they arrived in space-ships.

-Jor-El had to do all his experiments in secret and was being spied on by the Science Council who wanted to pull the trigger on him. Thats why Clark's rocket was so small, it was one of Jor-El's of backyard prototypes.

Anyways the World Of Krypton series is a fun read and tries to make all the silver age goofiness a little more plausible. There was a sequel series about the history of Krypton that shows the Vrang invasion but it gets monotonous since it shows that damn near EVERY major discovery or event in the planets history was made by an ancestor of Superman.

The story of the demise of Krypton is the story of intellectual and technological hubris. Him landing in bumfuck Kansas is as jarring of a change of scenery as it gets, but also commentary of the contrast of the two cultures.