@YeshuaDavid: Should I even ask where the superheroines are..?

@Naked_Quark: It's true that with gas giants we would be orbiting it, much more than the reverse....

@Emmanuel_Goldstein: "But I'm having trouble understanding how something even 142,000 km across would fill the whole sky from 385,000 km away. "

@AngryFork: It's been done. Yavin. Pandora. Coyote...

@somebodyoranother: Damn, I used to do that during my Christmas vacations, too.

@a.seivewright: "I like to keep this handy...for close encounters."

@Bombos: Not really. The Christians will understandably say; 'If it's really him, he's too powerful for you to confine.'

@Timothy Neill: "Little immediate change, although Christianity and Islam will probably have a mental breakdown and go through a Reformation."

@PistachioWildebeest: Agreed.

@shan164: Also, as 'Boomer' once said to Starbuck, of the impossibility of ressurecting killed Viper pilots:

What, no Minoxidil?

@gd01skorpius: Having a full-time job (and the life that implies) is part of what makes superheroes connected, identifiable to the audience an, well, 'human.' (whether they in fact are or not)

Actually, our weather models could be quite good, but inputting the initial conditions would be a bear. There's so much non-linearity involved, that being even slightly off will mean diverging from the real-world unfoldment of weather in a few weeks, at best...

@corpore-metal: Likely. I know I don't. I'm simply pleased...

@Trystero: Not to worry, it would be summer in the Antarctic...

@Pijus: Um, no. It conceivably has, but we can't know until it gets here.

@queensowntalia: "As has been pointed out, people would FLIP OUT, and I'm not thrilled to think about the ensuing worldwide chaos. "

@Puns-n-Roses: "Yeah I know saying his name three times doesn't make him explode..."

@Faustroll: Um, the VanAllen belts aren't a 'shield' in and of themselves, they're torus shaped zones in Earth's magnetosphere where electrically charged, energetic particles are trapped:

@EBone: You're thinking of Gamma Ray Bursts. Although it involves a very specific kind of supernova, this won't be that.