DBZ Characters being lightspeed and whatnot.

I stand corrected. Incidentally, does it give an exact figure for how long it takes Frieza to reach Earth from Jupiter? If it's less than 35 minutes, he's travelling faster than the speed of light.

Originally posted by jimBOFH
I stand corrected. Incidentally, does it give an exact figure for how long it takes Frieza to reach Earth from Jupiter? If it's less than 35 minutes, he's travelling faster than the speed of light.

http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/214/dragon_ball/chapter.16015/page.13/

http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/214/dragon_ball/chapter.16015/page.14/

But there it is. Going to Jupiter. Doesn't really say how long it took but it's fast enough to suprise Bulma and it doesn't look like it took more than a minute or two. And fast enough to cut the time to get to Namek down to 3 months compared to the 4000 years.

So by Bulma's calculations the Saiyan ship is 16000 times faster than the fastest known earth rocket. If you take the Apollo 10 speed (fastest manned craft) that makes 11 km/s x 16000 =176000 km/s, which is a little more than half the speed of light.
However, the upgraded Saiyan pod that Goku flies makes the same trip in a week, 12 times faster....i.e. over 6 times the speed of light.

Originally posted by Endless Mike

Some of the blasts might be relativistic at best, but not FTL. After all, in the really long ones no timeframe was given, and normal humans can track them often. [/B]

No early on Piccolo takes no time at all to blow up the moon which already put's a low level ki blast at relativistic levels. Coolers revenge doesn't conflict with the manga and Cooler gets to the sun in less than a minute with Goku's Kamehameha.

It's not an outlier because later on Goku reacts to Cell's kamehameha and it leaves the earths atmosphere before he can even IT back to earth. They just slow them down for effect.

I don't recall any time when normal humans react to ki blasts.

They clearly have ftl reactions at the end of the series.

Originally posted by Kento
Short answer. No they can't travel at light speed. Unless you count IT but only a handful of people can teleport.

IT is also limited, in the sense that it requires ki signals

It is said that instant transmission is a technique that allows you to move at the speed of light, but from what I have seen it should be vastly faster than light speed to allow goku to travel to namek and the new planet vegeta in the time he does. These planets he can get to with instant transmission must be between billions and trillions of light years away so light speed would never be anywhere near enough.