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Do you know The Man of Steel? He’s handsome. His moral compass always points in the right direction. He always saves the day. He’s the first comic book superhero. He made his introduction in 1938 in Action Comics #1. He wears a red cape. He’s an alien from the planet Krypton. His alter ego is Clark Kent. He has a giant S on his chest. He’s … Superman!
Having grown up on a different planet, Superman was born with powers. Just like how all dogs bark and all humans have belly buttons, everyone on Krypton has abilities like Superman. He’s super-strong, super-fast, can fly and has x-ray and heat vision. He even has a few other powers he pulls out of his bag of tricks when needed. But Superman’s biggest strength has always been his ability to fly. A power that in 1978’s Superman: The Movie he uses to fly so fast around the Earth that he rewinds time! What would life be like if you could rewind time?
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It’s annoying and sometimes painful, but it’s true. If Superman wants, he can choose to float, fly or even leap over buildings! But for his alter ego, Clark Kent, he needs to be careful to follow the rules of physics. For Clark, he has to obey the force from gravity. It’s the thing that keeps him and the world around him firmly planted to the ground. Otherwise, he might accidentally reveal his true identity to his co-workers at the fictional newspaper the Daily Planet.
If you want to defy gravity in the real world, just look out a window. Birds do it easily as masters of the sky. They even manage to stay airborne for hours by floating on warm air currents. As the Sun heats the Earth throughout the day, it creates columns of warm air. As these columns get bigger, birds fly into them and ride the warm air. Just like how a kite dances in the wind, birds have full control of the world above us. Flying inside of these columns of air, lazy birds are able to float, sleep, and eat, without even having to flap their

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