Originally posted by OneDumbG0
I can dissect every single one of your straw-mans if you want. But doing so would only serve to counter your thinly veiled insults, which I just don't care about. Because you've done nothing to rebut my argument that each cited quantification can be equally be as wrong as the next.In fact, you ended up discrediting one of those quantifications definitively with your pleas to utilize the "real world." Heck, I was just trying to say you can't take any of them for granted, not that any particular one of them was conclusively wrong. Ironic, to say the least.
Your conspiracy theories and personal diatribe are boring. I did not claim in that post that the sub light speed quantification is free from doubt. Indeed, it being doubtful, like the others, is the core premise of my unextraordinary conclusion that the feat is speculative, and thus, one interpretation is as justifiable as the next. So your observation is irrelevant.
And make no mistake, I wasn't "passively" discrediting the other numbers. What I was doing was directly and actively discrediting them because of the hypocritical hasty assumptions that they're far freer from doubt than the speed quantification. No, they're not. Especially when we now know [b](i)
how the population was off by the hundreds of thousands (taking for granted N. Korea's dubious census results), and (ii) that we apparently have a FTL mushroom cloud forming at million times light speed from the .00001 microsecond timing. [/B]
If Superman is seen lifting a real world Abrams tank (65 tons), as said by the narration, and yet the author thought the actual tank was 10 tons and thus said in the narration, "The 10 ton tank was nothing for the man of steel". So did Superman lift 10 tons or 65 tons? He lifted the 65 tons of course. The writer didn't mean for Superman to lift 10 tons but rather he THOUGHT that Superman lifted 10 tons. His mistake was not knowing the facts about an Abrams tank. In the same vein, the writer didn't mean for flash to go under light speed, but rather HE THOUGHT flash was going under light speed.
There are many feats (like CA supposedly outrunning bullets) where the writer had characters doing things they really don't know the facts about. But if they knew the facts then they would have revised their narration or art. For example, if the writer KNEW Flash had to be going far faster than light to save all those people then he would have said that Flash was moving at countless multiples of the speed of light INSTEAD of just under the speed of light.