Race to Mars

Started by Stoic5 pages

Superman claimed recently that he is far faster than he was before. I’m going with him.

It's.....not usable here lol.

Originally posted by cdtm
Isn't teleportation usually instant by definition?
Nah

How many times have people anticipated Kurt's teleport before he arrives?

Alternatively, even zeta beams need to reach their destination, albeit quickly

I think teleportation is usually "nigh instantaneous" but the "nigh" part is where this thread lives

Originally posted by Smurph
I agree. Him locating them despite their cloak says nothing about the speed of the teleport.

Huh?

Originally posted by Smurph
Nah

How many times have people anticipated Kurt's teleport before he arrives?

Alternatively, even zeta beams need to reach their destination, albeit quickly

I think teleportation is usually "nigh instantaneous" but the "nigh" part is where this thread lives


Zeta beams are instantaneous though

Originally posted by abhilegend
Zeta beams are instantaneous though
fair 👆 I mis-remembered the dialogue from Superman's feat of tracking the zeta beam

So, correcting my answer to Todd: it depends on the means of teleportation

Originally posted by abhilegend
Huh?
Just agreeing with you /shrug

He got to the island after they did. Seems like we're on the same page now.

I thought one COULD outrace Zeta beams; you just needed to be FTL.

How big of a unit is an instant? In an instant the assailant was on Nayland Smiths back...

Pretty sure they already ARE ftl. I mean they cross galaxies or more.

You'd need to be a Flash, not just any old ftler.

Honestly, he took off after they were already beamed and showed up around the same time in the same position as when he started. If
Iirc he can’t fly FTL on earth. More than likely he figured out that they were beamed to earth. He got to earth waited for them to materialize and then he located and flew to them. The delay of them showing up before Superman was shown floating in the air could be less than the lead they were given when superman noticed them teleport, deduce where they were going and then take off after them. He had to slow down outside of the earth’s atmosphere. He’s travelled 100 trillion light years in a matter of days. Pluto to
Earth should be instant.

Is the no ftl on Earth still a thing?

Originally posted by cdtm
Is the no ftl on Earth still a thing?

Not sure about now but that was 10 years ago.

Not sure why he can't just have....flown from Pluto to Earth after they arrived on Earth?

As in, what makes this a wrong interpretation?

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Not sure why he can't just have....flown from Pluto to Earth after they arrived on Earth?

As in, what makes this a wrong interpretation?


Sure that’s possible too but that’s an even better feat.
They teleport, he’s scanning the solar system sees them materializing on earth and gets there at just around the same time they materialize.

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
I thought one COULD outrace Zeta beams; you just needed to be FTL.

I guess that depends on if we're talking about the beams themselves(I.E, before hitting the target and starting the teleportation) or the teleportation the beams create

Originally posted by Diesldude
Sure that’s possible too but that’s an even better feat.
They teleport, he’s scanning the solar system sees them materializing on earth and gets there at just around the same time they materialize.

Yeah. Phildo is many things, but he's very careful with his choice of words (he's been this way ever since he got cuckolded by a librarian with a dictionary). Hence Superman 'overpowers' teleportation.

Originally posted by qwertyuiop1998
I guess that depends on if we're talking about the beams themselves(I.E, before hitting the target and starting the teleportation) or the teleportation the beams create

I just remembered that JLA story where Adam Strange kidnapped the JLA to help him against the Entarans:

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Yeah. Phildo is many things, but he's very careful with his choice of words (he's been this way ever since he got cuckolded by a librarian with a dictionary). Hence Superman 'overpowers' teleportation.
Overcomes.

As in, he was overcome by that librarian.

I wasn't the cuckold, so am free with my word choices.

In unrelated news, does anyone want a library card?

Originally posted by Smurph
So I think Philo was right to say "overcomes teleportation" because he basically neuters their escape strategy... but "overcome" is different than "outrace"
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Yeah. Phildo is many things, but he's very careful with his choice of words (he's been this way ever since he got cuckolded by a librarian with a dictionary). Hence Superman 'overpowers' teleportation.
It's funny because I did, in fact, intentionally formulate it like that, because I do think at best it's up to interpretation whether he raced the teleportation itself [I do not think he did]. Still -- in moments scanning their cloaked location and travelling from Pluto is good.

Originally posted by Smurph
Overcomes.

As in, he was overcome by that librarian.

He used cloaking beyond even my senses.