Talk:X-ray vision

message: Should someone incorporate this into it?[]
<<While there are devices currently extant which can "see" through clothing, these are quite bulky and it is unlikely that any "X-ray goggles" could be made with modern technology.>>
What does "extant" mean? 64.192.107.242 01:14, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: wiktionary:Extant. — Saxifrage ✎ 18:34, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I can't answer the "range" question, but the "exposure" question is rather interesting.  As noted in the article, Superman's X-ray vision generated heat, suggesting that Superman himself was the source of the X-rays.  However, this would also suggest that in order to see through things, there would have to be something behind the object he's looking at/through to reflect his rays back to his eyes.  After the Byrne revamp in 1986, it seemed that Superman's X-ray vision was merely the ability to visually perceive frequencies outside the normal human range, so there is no additional radiation present -- he's merely taking advantage of natural sources. HalJor 23:54, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: The phrase "...but sometimes for more perverted reasons" is POV. Let's be less vague and state that X-ray vision is sometimes used in fictional works to view people's private parts and leave it up to the reader to decide whether that is perverted or not. --Cab88 13:50, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...but sometimes for more perverted reasons" 

message: Since we're dealing with Em radiation- Superman could realistically easily see it- and no , he doesnt need to emit xrays from his eyes(they don't bounce off a lot of common materials)
No, what you've all forgotten is that there's a miniscule amount of high energy rays that do get through earth's atmosphere- and they are extremely small in total power(or sometimes pretty high- ie the rays that go through everything and have very little interaction(but Superman can see the whole spectrum so he'd be able to see them)- but the fact is there is ambient xray radiation from outside the planet.
I am not sure of natural sources of Xrays on the earth-that's like saying the Earth naturally emits visible light. I don't recall if it's true- but if so, it's on a level so small that pretty much only Superman could detect it with his super eyes.
Anyway, does not the Sun emit xrays as well- aside from its high burst periods, it probably constantly emits some amount. Correct me if i am wrong please- but Superman could use that radiation almost as our eyes adn cameras can read visible light from the Sun.
I'm aware Xrays don't behave like normal visible light-band Em radiation, and plus one reason we can see so well is that a lot of stuff SCATTERS visible light(not sure if this would occur for these extremely weak xrays  that do get to Earth's Surface and past the magnetic fields-and on the high end, all the higher energy stuff HARDLY interacts with matter on earth- it's why it takes labs deep under the earth to detect and build images from that space radiation) 
But anyway- Can we get some expert opinions regarding the ambient values/background radiation?
Indeed, we're dealing with really miniscule amounts that would be too cost-prohibitive for us to go after ourselves, but it actually fits with Superman's multispectral selective vision.
I apologize If I'm way off in left field here.98.85.106.24 (talk) 05:19, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a great point, except for one thing. We can see objects because light from the sun reflects off of them and is reflected to our eyes. X-rays from the sun pass through most matter. Superman would only be able to see very dense materials that block or reflect X-rays. He wouldn't be able to, say, read a newspaper through a brick wall, or see a person's body (except for the skeleton) through clothes. WaxTadpole (talk) 22:19, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the source of Xrays- you forgot something major 

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