Originally posted by Surtur
What feat is this?
Over the span of one Septosecond, which is 0.000000000000000000001 seconds, he tuned every radio on Earth.
There are 150,000,000 square kilometers of land on Earth. Light travels about 300,000 kilometers per second. To cover 150,000,000 kilometers, it would take light 500 seconds. For simplicity's sake, if you assume there is 1 radio for every square kilometer on earth (that is lowballing it greatly), that means he was traveling 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times faster than light, or 500 septillion.
Understand that I am greatly, greatly lowballing this feat as it doesn't take into account the time it takes him to tune every radio, the accurate density of radios per square kilometer (much higher than my guess, i just used mine to make the multiplication and division easier), radios that aren't on land (such as every boat on the planet that has a radio) or the time it takes him to search the square of every kilometer -- if he had to search every square inch then it'd be 500 septillion squared, or 250,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which is 250 Quattuordecillion times the speed of light
wally>barry
Originally posted by ghostman
Over the span of one Septosecond, which is 0.000000000000000000001 seconds, he tuned every radio on Earth.There are 150,000,000 square kilometers of land on Earth. Light travels about 300,000 kilometers per second. To cover 150,000,000 kilometers, it would take light 500 seconds. For simplicity's sake, if you assume there is 1 radio for every square kilometer on earth (that is lowballing it greatly), that means he was traveling 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times faster than light, or 500 septillion.
Understand that I am greatly, greatly lowballing this feat as it doesn't take into account the time it takes him to tune every radio, the accurate density of radios per square kilometer (much higher than my guess, i just used mine to make the multiplication and division easier), radios that aren't on land (such as every boat on the planet that has a radio) or the time it takes him to search the square of every kilometer -- if he had to search every square inch then it'd be 500 septillion squared, or 250,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which is 250 Quattuordecillion times the speed of light
wally>barry
This is why I laugh whenever people try to act like post crisis Superman had speed to rival the Flash.
Originally posted by CosmicComet
Barry.By portrayal he is THE Flash.
Also his feat in Superman: Grounded is better than any Wally feat I'm aware of.
Are you referring to this feat:
Superman #709
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Originally posted by ghostman
Over the span of one Septosecond, which is 0.000000000000000000001 seconds, he tuned every radio on Earth.There are 150,000,000 square kilometers of land on Earth. Light travels about 300,000 kilometers per second. To cover 150,000,000 kilometers, it would take light 500 seconds. For simplicity's sake, if you assume there is 1 radio for every square kilometer on earth (that is lowballing it greatly), that means he was traveling 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times faster than light, or 500 septillion.
Understand that I am greatly, greatly lowballing this feat as it doesn't take into account the time it takes him to tune every radio, the accurate density of radios per square kilometer (much higher than my guess, i just used mine to make the multiplication and division easier), radios that aren't on land (such as every boat on the planet that has a radio) or the time it takes him to search the square of every kilometer -- if he had to search every square inch then it'd be 500 septillion squared, or 250,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which is 250 Quattuordecillion times the speed of light
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wally>barry
Originally posted by Surtur
This is why I laugh whenever people try to act like post crisis Superman had speed to rival the Flash.
Originally posted by ghostman
Over the span of one Septosecond, which is 0.000000000000000000001 seconds, he tuned every radio on Earth.There are 150,000,000 square kilometers of land on Earth. Light travels about 300,000 kilometers per second. To cover 150,000,000 kilometers, it would take light 500 seconds. For simplicity's sake, if you assume there is 1 radio for every square kilometer on earth (that is lowballing it greatly), that means he was traveling 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times faster than light, or 500 septillion.
Understand that I am greatly, greatly lowballing this feat as it doesn't take into account the time it takes him to tune every radio, the accurate density of radios per square kilometer (much higher than my guess, i just used mine to make the multiplication and division easier), radios that aren't on land (such as every boat on the planet that has a radio) or the time it takes him to search the square of every kilometer -- if he had to search every square inch then it'd be 500 septillion squared, or 250,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which is 250 Quattuordecillion times the speed of light
wally>barry
Originally posted by Surtur
This is why I laugh whenever people try to act like post crisis Superman had speed to rival the Flash.
And another Speedster from 5th dimension.
Originally posted by Surtur
He wasn't amped when he evacuated half a million people from a city in a split second.
Originally posted by celeyhyga17
Sure.. Totally different subject from my post, but ok. Iirc he went near light travel in that scene.
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
A third reading, is that he was both faster and slower than the speed of light.We know the Flash carried the Koreans at 'a hair breadth's short of the speed of light'.
But when he's running BACK into the city, empty handed, without anyone in his arms and when's he's not having to worry about civilians..he's running faster.
So, rather than assuming a constant speed (the speed that he carried them there = the speed he runs back into the city), he probably took a bit more care+time when he was carrying a little old Korean lady, than ramping it up to max gear when he's on his own.
Also:
He's making two trips, of 35 miles each (assuming the city is concentrated in 1 spot - this is grossly underestimating, as Chongjin is 104 square miles;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongjin). This would be for every rescue.
My reading was that he carried them under the speed of light, but when running back into the city, was vastly over.
Originally posted by celeyhyga17
Maybe..
There really is no reason for him to drastically slow down when carrying innocents since you know speed force, but maybe your right.
The alternative is that both statements are true, and people start arguing for 78 pages (He was UNDER the speed of light! No, he was (*insert calculation*) seventy five quadrillion times the speed of light! Etc etc.
for those interested:
I even remember on some website someone actually tried to calculate how fast you'd need to go to do the nuke feat and they gave up once they getting in upwards of billions of times the speed of light.
It's like how in the movie "Prometheus" a character makes a comment about how they've come "half a billion miles from earth". Which of course would only actually put you around Jupiter and not in another galaxy.
