I first heard about kryptonite being discovered from Robin Quivers news segment during this morning’s Howard Stern show and then as I’m reading through the morning’s RSS feeds, I saw the BBC story confirming below. For those who don’t know, the Quivers news segment on the show is where they talk about real news stories and make fun of them.

Researchers from mining group Rio Tinto discovered the unusual mineral and enlisted the help of Dr Stanley when they could not match it with anything known previously to science … “Towards the end of my research I searched the web using the mineral’s chemical formula - sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide - and was amazed to discover that same scientific name, written on a case of rock containing kryptonite stolen by Lex Luther from a museum in the film Superman Returns.

The article points out that no, it’s not green like in the Superman comics and movies. While this might seem like a strange coincidence for a comic book story, a lot of science fiction has been proven prophetic.

Automobiles showed up in fiction long before becoming a reality for example see the inventor of science fiction Jules Verne via Encyclopedia Britannica:

Verne’s first novel, Paris au XXième siècle (Paris in the Twentieth Century)—written in 1863 but not published until 1994—is set in the distant 1960s and contains some of his most accurate prognostications: elevated trains, automobiles, facsimile machines, and computer-like banking machines.

The imagination is a wondrous thing, isn’t it?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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