This is one of the more quantifiable high-end speed feats in comics. You know about how great the distance is (just over 1 light year) and the equivalent of a starting gun courtesy of warlock.
Using deliberately low-ball estimates of Thanos' punching speed (trying only to put him around peak-human) and a generous assumption that his punch was already 25% completed before he was interrupted, I figured that Surfer was averaging over 40 billion x the speed of light--traveling over one light year in under a thousandth of a second.
Not bad from a standing start.
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That's the only way he could get his answer from. He used 10 seconds.
But the conversation took at least 20 seconds. I used a stopwatch and read the conversation in natural speed.
Surfer was accelerating the whole time. It took time for him to reach warp speed. Thus the conservation should count since Surfer is still racing to get there.
I would say it took 1 to 3 seconds for SS to get there. Thanos wasn't trying to use his full force on Cap. Cap had time to act (as shown in his facial expressions) when Thanos was moving.
Even holding back, it would not take anyone 1 to 3 seconds to throw a punch. Try it right now. It feels ridiculous, doesn't it?
I also don't see why an estimate for peak human punching speed would be considered Thanos going all out.
And Cap, a low-end bullet-timer, having time to react to a punch at peak human speed isn't unusual. Him having only time to make a slightly different facial expression indicates that the fist is moving much faster, but I didn't take that into account to avoid any more speculation than necessary.
Besides, Surfer's typical speed is around 1 light year per second, based on just the scans you'd see in the respect thread. That's him from a standing start, not particularly trying.
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My best guess is:
Since OA is a planet in the center of the universe and the nearest Galaxy to Andromeda is about 2.52 million light years away from it, it will mean they have to fly AT LEAST that distance in comic time. That could be a starting point.
The Plutonian taking a bomb from groundside on Earth, to space in under the 4 seconds it had on the timer. He even had time to throw it away from itself.
Plutonian again, sensing a radio signal, reaching it in under a pico second, then outracing it back to it's source which was a pretty good distance away.
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