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re: How exactly did Superman make the Earth (and time) spin backwards?

Posted on 2/23/17 at 1:57 pm to
Posted by LucasP
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 1:57 pm to
You're welcome.
Posted by WallsAllAroundMe
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 2:06 pm to
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Posted by LucasP
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 2:23 pm to
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Nothing more than one thing...Love


Wrong.
Posted by Godfather1
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 2:26 pm to
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This movie has got to be 30+ years old.


Closer to 40.
Posted by ksayetiger
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 2:28 pm to
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That scene was soooo damn stupid lol... so much bullshite.



Uh, the movie is about a guy that flew here as a baby from planet krypton, and once here has supernatural powers. Oh, and the woman he works with doesnt recognize him in a leotard.
Posted by mikelbr
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 2:29 pm to
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Sonic. Now.


Hahah this cracked me up. I just told ccomeaux to meet me at Winn Dixie over in the Zuck in BR thread.


Posted by MorbidTheClown
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 2:29 pm to
i like my farting theory better.
Posted by Green Chili Tiger
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 2:33 pm to
Posted by i am dan
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 3:21 pm to
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You wanna be Superman? Let me help, by putting you in a fricking wheelchair.


Ouch, that's harsh...

You made cripple superman cry.
Posted by SG_Geaux
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 3:22 pm to
Posted by i am dan
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 3:22 pm to
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Uh, the movie is about a guy that flew here as a baby from planet krypton, and once here has supernatural powers. Oh, and the woman he works with doesnt recognize him in a leotard.


All that's completely possible. The Earth rotating turning back time? Naw.
Posted by Pectus
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 3:27 pm to
Fastest known speed is faster than you said.

That might be our fastest acheivable speed?

If Superman flies faster than the rotation of the Earth he deals with time at a different rate than thoae closer to the center of the Earth's rotation. Same is true with satellites. In fact, accurate satellite positioning requires an adjustment in time due to this phenomenon...also called relativity.
Posted by LucasP
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 3:32 pm to
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If Superman flies faster than the rotation of the Earth he deals with time at a different rate than thoae closer to the center of the Earth's rotatio


That would only effect the rate at which he goes forward in time, not allow him to go backwards.

I already gave the correct explanation. So shut up.
Posted by bakersman
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 3:44 pm to
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he should have just spun it on his finger like a basketball...would you have questioned that also?


He would've brought us into the past by several years had he done that
Posted by Pectus
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 4:42 pm to
I was only talking about forward travel. Sorry I didn't clarify.


LucasP...please accept this coupon for my mistake:

1 free hug
Posted by BiggerBear
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 5:14 pm to
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there is no type of known force he could exert that would stop the rotation of the earth and then make it go in reverse


Well, this is not completely true. First, you must accept that, working within the confines of the story, he can travel fast enough and that he is not limited to "4 times the speed of sound."

So how did his trick work? Gravity.

If Superman has mass then he exerts gravity. At this point, it's just a math problem. True, he exerts very little gravity upon the earth at the distance that had to have been from earth to stay out of the atmosphere. But if he flew fast enough, he could reverse the rotation of the earth. It would just be a matter of how fast he flew and how long it would take to reverse the spin.

This would of course, NOT explain the time travel thing. That part was just stupid.
Posted by PsychTiger
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 5:18 pm to
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How exactly did Superman make the Earth (and time) spin backwards?


He had help from Chuck Norris.
Posted by elprez00
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 7:18 pm to
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How exactly did Superman make the Earth (and time) spin backwards?

Still a less glaring plot issue than numerous in BvS.
Posted by Chucktown_Badger
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 7:23 pm to
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he should have just spun it on his finger like a basketball.


This is what Black Superman would have done.
This post was edited on 2/23/17 at 7:27 pm
Posted by LucasP
Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 7:29 pm to
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This would of course, NOT explain the time travel thing. That part was just stupid.


Dude, I fricking explained it in painstaking detail. No need to go further, it's done, I won the thread. Just stop.
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