Lana seeking Meteors origin...

[SVSpector]

Did you catch Lana triangulating the path of the meteors to see where they came from. She is looking for Krypton.....only she doesn't know it....yet.

[Rafael122]

Krypton doesn't exist.

[sleepykao3]

Originally posted by Rafael122
Krypton doesn't exist.

Well, not anymore.

[iloveit]

ya, i saw that

[SVSpector]

She is looking for where it used to be I meant...

[krpto]

i think lara should bring lana and chloe together to help stop brainiac because for some reason clark is too trusting of him.

if jor-el has kryptonian technology in the caves a fos why not lara i am sure lara could read lana's mind to see if she would be okay with clark's secret after all the other technology krypton had i wouldn't be surprised at all.

[SVSpector]

Interesting...we have not heard from Laura yet...maybe she will send Jor'El to his room.

[djpnutz]

or better yet... TO THE COUCH!

[sstray72]

I don't understand why she didn't think that she could tell Clark about it. Why hide it?

It is amazing that a freshman without prior interest in astronomy can whip up a computer program that can compute the trajectory and origin of an interstellar event after a few weeks of 'Introductory Astronomy'. If I remember my class correctly, we were still learning the phases of the moon and what a "parsec" was. Wow, she sure is advanced. She should send her resume to NASA. I'm just wondering what knowledge, skills and abilities will Lana magically learn in season 6.

[smallville_fetish]

I personally think Lana is actually one step ahead of Lex and doesn't know it yet. She obviously knows more than shes leading on, either because she doesn't trust anyone or that she's unaware of herself.

She was checking out the spaceship still believing it was real and when Lex told her "the meteor showers that killed your parents, the space ship, it all ties together" She had that look where part of her was surprised and another part was confirming whatever she had going through her mind as if deep down she always knew that there was a connection but she never saw it clearly until Lex drew it out for her.

Isn't it ironic that she's majoring in Astronomy?

[Timester]

AstroLana, the first woman walking on the Sun. :lol:

[sstray72]

Lana shall walk on the sun, therefore learning the secrets of sustaining the fusion reaction making clean reusable energy for everyone, and winning the Nobel Prize, all before sophomore year.

[MarthasMuffins]

I"m thinking she might have got that program/simulation thing from Lex.

[MidgardDragon]

Even if Lana finds where the meteors originated from, she will just find empty space, since Krypton is long gone.

[djpnutz]

Then I guess she's gonna use the line!!!

"TELL ME THE TRUTH, PROGRAM CREATOR!" "Why is there NOT a planet where I charted that meteor from!" "I'm part of the friggen big 3 so LUCY YOU GOT SOME 'SPLAININ TO DO!"

[orangemonkey]

Originally posted by MidgardDragon
Even if Lana finds where the meteors originated from, she will just find empty space, since Krypton is long gone.


Ah, but would it be gone? The question is whether the spaceship Clark came in and the meteors that followed him (both times) move faster than the speed of light.

Given the distance Krypton has to be from Earth and the relative quickness Clark arrived, I would have to say that the light from Krypton would still be there even though the planet is not. So if Lana were to take Hubble, or some secret LexCorp space telescope, and point it to where Krypton used to be, she should see a planet there given the lights we see in the sky today are from millions of years ago.

Or so memory serves me, which is prone to failure.

[SuperClarkMode]

Except in some retellings of Superman, Krypton exploded a long long time ago, with Clark in some sort of suspended animation during the ride here, or put threw some speed distortion of time from spaceship travel, and I thought that Chris Reeves said he looked into space, where the meteors should have came from, and found nothing there, which is how he deduced that Krypton is no more.

[Small2]

While I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, remember Dr. Swan picked up a radio signal at the time of the first meteor shower that was sent by Jor-El asking whomever to protect Kal-El his son? Further that he folllowed the signal back and found nothing.

Therefore since the radio signal apparently orignated from Krypton, the spacecraft also traveled at the speed of light and at this time no light from Krypton would still be visible.

[MidgardDragon]

Originally posted by orangemonkey
Ah, but would it be gone? The question is whether the spaceship Clark came in and the meteors that followed him (both times) move faster than the speed of light.

Given the distance Krypton has to be from Earth and the relative quickness Clark arrived, I would have to say that the light from Krypton would still be there even though the planet is not. So if Lana were to take Hubble, or some secret LexCorp space telescope, and point it to where Krypton used to be, she should see a planet there given the lights we see in the sky today are from millions of years ago.

Or so memory serves me, which is prone to failure.

Check Rosetta from Season 2 (the episode that introduced Dr. Swann). Dr. Swann has a wall-hanging with Krypton's location marked and Clark says, "This is where Krypton is?" Swann says, "That's where Krypton was." There was no visible planet in that circled area as far as I remember.

Krypton likely burned out longer ago than when Clark actually arrived.

[Lana_Lang #1]

But why would triangulating the second meteor shower lead to Lana trying to find Krypton?

It was already established when Clark saved that little boy, that the meteors were not made of/ nor contained any traces of kryptonite in them.

Therefore it is safe to say that the meteor that broke and caused the second meteor shower did not come from Krypton. It seems more likely it was just some random huge meteor that was floating through spaces.

Man, they are pushing the Clana this season eh? Lana studying Astronomy. That sure came out of the blue!

A dear friend of mine is taking Astronomy 101 and they are nowhere even within the galaxy of closeness to what Lana was doing. So I dunno how Lana was doing that unless she picked up a copy of HOW TO A TRACK METEOR SHOWERS FOR DUMMIES.

:)

[MidgardDragon]

Clark picked up a bit of meteor rock during Mortal that was obviously Kryptonite, and the show seemed to suggest that the rock he picked up was from the second meteor shower (since it was out in the open and not buried somewhere like most of the original meteor shower seems to be). Him saving the kid doesn't prove the meteors weren't Kryptonian in origin, he just did it very quickly then went on to where he was going, he didn't have a chance to be effected by it.

Also, hasn't it been theorized that the Kryptonian meteors are only turned into "Kryptonite" (i.e. things that hurt Clark) after being influenced by the Earth's atmosphere and/or Sun? Perhaps the meteors hadn't been around long enough to effect Clark.

[UpandAtom]

Originally posted by orangemonkey
Ah, but would it be gone? The question is whether the spaceship Clark came in and the meteors that followed him (both times) move faster than the speed of light.

Given the distance Krypton has to be from Earth and the relative quickness Clark arrived, I would have to say that the light from Krypton would still be there even though the planet is not. So if Lana were to take Hubble, or some secret LexCorp space telescope, and point it to where Krypton used to be, she should see a planet there given the lights we see in the sky today are from millions of years ago.

Or so memory serves me, which is prone to failure.

According to "Rosetta" Krypton is less than a light year away fro us so the light should've already reached Earth. What am I saying? Krypton is a planet. It doesn't generate any light. Krypton's red sun was extinguished a long time ago (as mentioned in "Skinwalker"). So not only would Lana not be able to find the planet but she wouldn't be able to find the planetary system as well.