Originally posted by iceman24567
Half of the things Surfer does is bull i rarely complain about but the really impressive things Flash does gets bull shit stamps epic bias but thats cool.
The writer says he went under light speed. The math confirms it.
I don't really see any bull. It's exactly as the writer intended.
Surfer covering over a lightyear's distance (at least 5.7 trillion miles) in about a second is often overlooked, too.
in ss's case he can actually MANIPULATE time. nothing ss does is illogical based on his ludicrous powerset.
and while relativity holds true SOMETIMES for flash, sometimes it doesn't. infinite speed?? einstein would have an aneurysm . . .
it's still comics at the end of the day, but (at least in this case) the art and text confine the same thing.
It's writer error, plain and simple. Having said that, we can either:
a.) Choose to accept the verbage provided to us by the writer, which states that Wally was travelling at 'sub-c' when he accomplished that feat.
or..
b.) Break the numerics down mathematically [numerics of which the writer also specified to us].
Either way is technically right, imo.
Originally posted by Philosophía
We have the time it took Flash to evacuate the city, the way he did it, and how far he took them. So, we're just going to ignore these, because the writer did a stupid mistake and said he was going sub-lightspeed, when it's obvious he didn't ?To each his own though.
It's not a stupid mistake. It's mentioned what, 2-3 times in two pages? Clearly the writer's intent was to make Flash go just under the speed of light. And Astner's math confirms that there really is no conflict there. The blogger failed to take into account Einstein's STR.
Originally posted by Philosophíathe stupid mistake was the writer's depiction of the feat. the writer clearly intended for flash to be under-sub light speed but since he didn't have the first clue about physics nor did he suspect any reader would be obsessive enough to actually do the calculations, he just threw some numbers that would seem impressive to a casual reader.
We have the time it took Flash to evacuate the city, the way he did it, and how far he took them. So, we're just going to ignore these, because the writer did a stupid mistake and said he was going sub-lightspeed, when it's obvious he didn't ?To each his own though.
Originally posted by Philosophía
We have the time it took Flash to evacuate the city, the way he did it, and how far he took them. So, we're just going to ignore these, because the writer did a stupid mistake and said he was going sub-lightspeed, when it's obvious he didn't ?
It seems to me that they want to ignore it.
DC should have just hired the blogger to the story and explain the feat.
Problem solved.
Originally posted by Philosophía
facepalmYou're from herochat, right ?
No. I don't go anywhere else but here.
Would you like to explain your problem with it? They have no problem using the Special Theory of Relativity to explain Flash's Infinite Mass punch. Using that, and the formulas from it, the writer's statement about him being sublight during that - several times - is correct. That the blogger is using basic math in order to compute that and change it into a better feat is his problem, not mine.
Bottom line: the writer states he's under light speed. Several times. That was his obvious intention.
What's your problem?