Who wins the race: Surfer vs Flash

Started by psycho gundam28 pages

Originally posted by CosmicComet
Light moves 1 foot per nanosecond.

1 nanosecond is 1,000 picoseconds.

It would be just over a 1/10 of an inch

Originally posted by CosmicComet
Well, Flash tells us in narration that he only has about a picosecond before kyle's blast takes WW's head off, and she was only like 30 feet away from him.
Yeah but he threw the guys in the blast long before it hit WW

Originally posted by psycho gundam
Nope. Just find how far light goes in a picosecond
In 1 nanosecond, light moves 0.3 meters. That means that in a picosecond, light movies 0.0003m. That is 0.3 millimeters.

That's comparable to a strand of hair, for perspective.

In short, for Kyle's blast to have traveled any visible distance at all, it would have to be many times faster than light.

So CosmicComet is right.

Originally posted by Cogito
Yeah but he threw the guys in the blast long before it hit WW

Not really, those guys are a lot closer to Diana than they are to Kyle.

For example, compare the size of the outline of the guy closest to diana (guy in blue jeans), you can see they are pretty close in size.

When Flash is about to start the search, he is only a couple of feet in front of Kyle and just ahead of the blast. By the time the picosecond ends, the blast hit those two guys that are maybe 5 meters away from Kyle.

"0.3mm" seems off to me

Originally posted by psycho gundam
"0.3mm" seems off to me

I don't care about your feelings, psycho.

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/length/lightpicosecond.html?u=lightpicosecond&v=1

http://units.wikia.com/wiki/Light-picosecond

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Originally posted by carver9
Is Lanterns blasts light speed.

No, they're FTL, as Cosmic says.

I did the sums for the speed to search 500,000 people (what us with Flash and half a mill??).

It's comfortably FTL.

Strangely, inly those with a stroNg Marvel bias seem to be arguing against....well, numbers, lol.

😂 😂

Flash, easily.

If his blast even moved 1 foot in a picosecond, it would 1000x ftl.

Thats not even an outlier or all that high a speed feat for gl blasts either.

Their blasts are more than fast enough to outpace their massive flight speeds.

@Phildo

That was a gouda one

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
No, they're FTL, as Cosmic says.

I did the sums for the speed to search 500,000 people (what us with Flash and half a mill??).

It's comfortably FTL.

Strangely, inly those with a stroNg Marvel bias seem to be arguing against....well, numbers, lol.

You mean the numbers you DC **** boy's dreamed up based on math that wasn't in the comic?

Oh now you want to argue that the numbers weren't there?

But when they are, you argue to ignore them?

Also, lol@you DC '****'boys.

Originally posted by -Pr-
TBH, I actually disagree about writer intent. IMO, he just really ****ed up the math when he wanted Wally to be sub c.

The problem becomes, what then? Narration being narration, we still get told that Wally evacuated x number of people in y amount of time. That's something that's undeniable. I usually like narration and hold it in high regard, but I don't see how it can be held in higher regard than a quantifiable feat on the page itself.

Yeah - the writer obviously wanted Flash to rescue them from the nuke blast.

Hence, my interpretation, which, crucially, does NOT ignore any of the statements.

Of course, some want to ignore the first, and say he was just under c.

Others want to ignore the second, and say he was over c.

Mine takes both into account.

Originally posted by staxamillion
I agree. I think the author meant to keep him under light but didn't realize that the feat HAD to be FTL

No question about it, but the Kryptonian mathematicians aren't impressed.

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
No, they're FTL, as Cosmic says.

I did the sums for the speed to search 500,000 people (what us with Flash and half a mill??).

It's comfortably FTL.

Strangely, inly those with a stroNg Marvel bias seem to be arguing against....well, numbers, lol.

I'm asking for evidence of light speed for Lantern blasts.

The problem is that to accomplish the feat, he would have had to go faster than light. And he does accomplish the feat.

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Yeah - the writer obviously wanted Flash to rescue them from the nuke blast.

Hence, my interpretation, which, crucially, does NOT ignore any of the statements.

Of course, some want to ignore the first, and say he was just under c.

Others want to ignore the second, and say he was over c.

Mine takes both into account.

Cheeky.

Originally posted by Blue Area Vet
No question about it, but the Kryptonian mathematicians aren't impressed.

Well, beats inserting 'billions of light years in the blink of an eye' into the equation, when that never happens....

So again, I asked civilly, without insulting you...

What is SURFER'S best speed feat?

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Oh now you want to argue that the numbers weren't there?

But when they are, you argue to ignore them?

Also, lol@you DC '****'boys.

There are no calculations in the book. If there are, produce then on the form of scans. You vision is being blocked by Kal's dick hairs.

Originally posted by carver9
I'm asking for evidence of light speed for Lantern blasts.

Here you go.

In 1 picosecond, it travels way further than what a light beam would travel.

Why did you ask about 13:57, btw, carver?

Edit: @BAV: Again, I ask, without insults - Surfer's best speed feat, please?