Originally posted by ctnn1
I believe the point he was making is that all else being equal (This being the key point) lifting is far more impressive than pulling. Each one of us can pull several times the amount of weight we can lift. Using proper techniques one can even pull dozens of times his or her own weight.Same cannot be said with lifting. The average human cannot even lift 80% of his or her body-weight, but can still pull many times that.
Of course the factors you threw in there modify the parameters, but I believe that was the point being made in the post. Just taking a wild stab at it anyhow.
The difficulty in lifting something is ultimately static, dependent on gravity. It is overcoming gravity and lifting it to whatever height based on the hight of the person.
Pulling something has more of a variety. "Dragging slowly" and "at speed" are two very different things.
Many people can drag 400 pounds, how many people can drag 400 pounds at 10mph? I'm going to guess zero, even though there are some people who can lift that much.
Consider that the moon's orbit was changed significantly, so we're talking probably quite a few moon widths, and it has a diameter of 3476 km. Consider also the feat took place over, maybe, a few minutes. Think about how far it was pulled, thousands and thousands of kilometers, all of which has to come from them, which translates into a whole lot of power in pulling.
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It is still an unquantifiable feat on her part because the load was split up 3 ways.
And, here's the thing, that load was split among two other people, one of whom is around the same strength, and the strongest one is someone we know Diana can take no-hold-back hits from.
We have a definite quantifiable number in the Moon's mass, so we need to account for that with three people, with Clark's share being the highest. Now, if his strength is in the quintillion ton range, that means Diana's toughness is in the quintillion ton range.
Try splitting up 74 quintillion tons between three people in a way where the highest load is below the quintillion range.
Or splitting it up period in a way where the highest can be no more than 25% higher than the other two (and that's being generous to Clark IMO, I don't think he's a full 25% stronger than J'onn or Di).
Get out a calculator, and make sure that you add in the drag coefficient... wait is there drag to create friction in space? Hmmmm.
So little in the time frame we're talking about that it's effectively nonexistent. Photonic pressure of light, solar wind, and stray hydrogren atoms don't make for much resistance.