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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
It didn't bother me that no one saw the planet until it was visible with the naked eye. Darkseid had already taken the Queen Industries satellites offline, and it's reasonable to speculate that he had taken similar measures with government satellites as well. As for amateur (as well as professional) astronomers, you must remember that a great percentage of the world's population was under the control of Darkseid, and it's logical to assume that these people would have been among the first to be targeted. And when Clark scanned the Daily Planet newsroom with his extraordinary visual abilities, you could plainly see that a large number of the reporters also bore the mark of the beast. Darkseid took extreme measures to keep the coming of Apokolips a secret as long as he could.
Now my problems with from a scientific perspective were twofold. First, the gravitational influence of any planet that close to the earth would produce devastation beyond imagining. The tug on the Earth's tides and tectonic plates would have demolished humanity. Second, the idea of Superman pushing an entire planet off of its collision course is absurd. Assume for a minute that Superman did exert a pressure on the surface sufficient to change it's motion. What would be more likely, that the planet would move, or that Superman would drive himself right through the planet? In order to move a mass that size, you'd need a surface to press against far firmer than any known in our solar system.
But I chalk that up to Superman not being in the realm of science fiction, but rather that of mythology. Like the heroes of old, his deeds are meant to entertain and inspire, but not necessarily to be believed. True, if I wrote the series, I would at least make an effort to keep the character in the ballpark of known physics, but my Superman wouldn't be nearly as "super."
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Ok, that might be plausible. As for the other physics errors I didn't even mention them since it went without saying. The Earth would have been devistated before it got even half as close as it did.