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Scientists Discover 'Kryptonite' in Serbian Mine Scientists have discovered a new mineral that matches the composition of kryptonite, the mythical rock that could sap Superman's strength in comic books.
The rock — named jadarite — was discovered in a mine in Jadar, Serbia, by the Rio Tinto company and identified by London's Natural History Museum.
Though the white rock didn't resemble anything known to real-life man, it did match the one substance known to destroy Superman's power.
"The new mineral does not contain fluorine and is white rather than green, but in all other respects the chemistry matches that for the rock containing kryptonite," said Chris Stanley, the mineralogist who identified the jadarite.
The scientists discovered it matched the mythical Superman substance when they entered jadarite's chemistry on Google.
"The first page that came back from Google was a Wikipedia page on kryptonite," Rumsey said.
"We went to check it out and found that in the 'Superman Returns' movie of 2006, Lex Luthor steals a rock fragment from a museum and it zooms in on the fragment and it lists the chemistry of the mineral and that happens to be exactly the same — or almost exactly the same — as what we had found," Rumsey said.
The discovery has those at DC Comics smiling.
This non-radioactive mineral was discovered during Rio Tinto's exploration of an industrial mineral field in southern Serbia. According to a company report, low-grade borate was found in the Jadar mine.
Scientists could not name the new mineral kryptonite, as it doesn't contain the element krypton. It will officially be dubbed jadarite when its discovery is detailed in the European Journal of Mineralogy later this year.
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It would be weirder still if, sometime in the very near future, a rocket carrying a baby crash lands near a farm in Kansas!
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It would be weirder still if, sometime in the very near future, a rocket carrying a baby crash lands near a farm in Kansas!
Really? Ya Think?
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I can think of something weirder, Beardguy being funny!
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pro i believe the correct line was:
IN THE ASS!
big_pimp_tim-made it cool to roll in the first damn place! Mon Jun 11 2007 09:27 PM- harley finally rolled with me "I'm working with him...he's young but, there is much potential. He can apprentice with me and then he's yours for final training. He will remember the face of his father... Some day, Knutreturns just may be the greatest of us all...."-THE bastard
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pro i believe the correct line was:
IN THE ASS!
Ahem... 
Excuse me, Mister----"Knut", was it? Yes, well, when you start showing up to rehearsals...much less write the script...THEN you may correct me.
Punk.
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pro i believe the correct line was:
IN THE ASS!
Ahem...
Excuse me, Mister----"Knut", was it? Yes, well, when you start showing up to rehearsals...much less write the script...THEN you may correct me.
Punk.
SHAZAM!!!
KABOOOOMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm not pullin up a Johnny Thunder pic.
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pro i believe the correct line was:
IN THE ASS!
Ahem...
Excuse me, Mister----"Knut", was it? Yes, well, when you start showing up to rehearsals...much less write the script...THEN you may correct me.
Punk.
SHAZAM!!!
i got served. 
big_pimp_tim-made it cool to roll in the first damn place! Mon Jun 11 2007 09:27 PM- harley finally rolled with me "I'm working with him...he's young but, there is much potential. He can apprentice with me and then he's yours for final training. He will remember the face of his father... Some day, Knutreturns just may be the greatest of us all...."-THE bastard
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Ha, upon seeing it again it almost looks like that Lionel Ritchie song "Say You, Say Me"...
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You're still my Number One, Knut... 
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You're still my Number One, Knut...
Byaaaaaa!
big_pimp_tim-made it cool to roll in the first damn place! Mon Jun 11 2007 09:27 PM- harley finally rolled with me "I'm working with him...he's young but, there is much potential. He can apprentice with me and then he's yours for final training. He will remember the face of his father... Some day, Knutreturns just may be the greatest of us all...."-THE bastard
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You're still my Number One, Knut...
Byaaaaaa!
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big_pimp_tim-made it cool to roll in the first damn place! Mon Jun 11 2007 09:27 PM- harley finally rolled with me "I'm working with him...he's young but, there is much potential. He can apprentice with me and then he's yours for final training. He will remember the face of his father... Some day, Knutreturns just may be the greatest of us all...."-THE bastard
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At least you don't have to worry about him impregnating you...
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i got a white blank P.I.
fixed
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i love chapelle. wish he'd come back... 
big_pimp_tim-made it cool to roll in the first damn place! Mon Jun 11 2007 09:27 PM- harley finally rolled with me "I'm working with him...he's young but, there is much potential. He can apprentice with me and then he's yours for final training. He will remember the face of his father... Some day, Knutreturns just may be the greatest of us all...."-THE bastard
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i love chapelle. wish he'd come back...
I like the one where the reporter did that interview with him in Pro, Grimm, cross, and Doc's neck of the woods.
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ahh yes clayton bigsby...
big_pimp_tim-made it cool to roll in the first damn place! Mon Jun 11 2007 09:27 PM- harley finally rolled with me "I'm working with him...he's young but, there is much potential. He can apprentice with me and then he's yours for final training. He will remember the face of his father... Some day, Knutreturns just may be the greatest of us all...."-THE bastard
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i love chapelle. wish he'd come back...
I like the one where the reporter did that interview with him in Pro, Grimm, cross, and Doc's neck of the woods.
cheap heat never gets old!
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I can think of something weirder, Beardguy being funny!
I'm the nice guy, not the funny guy, though that does not stop me from experimenting with humor from time to time.
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i love chapelle. wish he'd come back...
I like the one where the reporter did that interview with him in Pro, Grimm, cross, and Doc's neck of the woods.
cheap heat never gets old!
Yeah..it's too easy..
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And this: On the back of Tuesday's news report regarding geologists finding a mineral in Serbia which shares virtually the same chemical composition as the fictional kryptonite from "Superman Returns", today we have a report about a Krypton-like planet being found in space...
European astronomers have spotted what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet outside our solar system, with balmy temperatures that could support water and, potentially, life. They have not directly seen the planet, which orbits a red sun called Gliese 581, but measurements of the star suggest that a planet not much larger than the Earth is pulling on it, the researchers say in a letter to the editor of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
"We have estimated that the mean temperature of this super-Earth lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius (32 to 104 degrees F), and water would thus be liquid," said Stephane Udry of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, who led the study.
"Its radius should be only 1.5 times the Earth's radius, and models predict that the planet should be either rocky, like our Earth, or covered with oceans," Udry said in a telephone interview.
It appears to have a mass five times that of Earth's.
Sounds a lot like Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's 1939 depiction of Krypton, along with the fact that it orbits a red sun. From Superman Homepage
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