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Comic Book Physics
hij writes "NANDO net has an article about a physics professor at the University of Minnesota is offering a class in
Comic Book Physics. He looks into such things as the amount of calories that the Flash burns and the tension in spider-mans web."
Guns with infinite bullets. Oh, we are not talking about Hollywood movies, my bad.
i was always curious about what those tights would do to your crotch after a good fight with a super villian.
also, did they figure out what supermans cape does? does it provide lift somehow?
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All I know is that *I* burn lots of calories yelling at my browser trying loading yet another Flash page.
;)
Flash: Giving Electronica Music a Bad Name Since 1996.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Well, I'm no scientist but it seems to me that if he went swinging around like that, it would litteraly rip his arm off. Does he have an exoskeleton I don't know about?
The flash does burn alot of callories, but unfortunatly, he still eats way more than he needs. This is why he hasn't had a movie (at least not lately), he is now over 600 lbs and can only run at abou 100mph.
Let's see, what other comic books are out there? Superman is just too easy to do (that or I can't think of any right now).
The incredible hulk is actually a very buff man who simply put on some halloween makeup once that caused a skin rash. Unfortunatly, while the makeup washed off, his skin stayed green. I guess this doesn't have to do with physics, does it?
Aquaman prevents his head from imploding when he dives deep because it is, in fact, filled with water and not a brain, as was previously thought. This allows him to equalize the pressure because he has holes in his ear drums. This explains why he spends his time with dolphins and tuna.
Wolverine's system survived the adamantium bonding because he takes lots of Citrical (R), a vitamin that helps prevent ostioperosis and death while bonding rare metals to your skeleton. To do this though, he had to take 2 bottles per day. This added up to so much money that he was forced to join a traveling, crime-fighting circus. They later dropped the circus part and just became the X-Men.
Of course, the last thing that I know is that the Silver Surfer is not actually silver but a rare form of mercury, which is why he is not only neutraly boyant in water, air, and anything else, but explains why anyone who touches him goes insane. I realize that this isn't in the comic books, but if they put that in, would you buy them?
OK, so I got off topic. Yes I made it all up. Sure I've never read a comic book for any of the above heros. Yes, most of it doesn't have to do with physics. Sure you can mod me down. But I got a long post in as one of the first, doesn't that deserve me a +1 "Good Try" mod? Admit it, this was funny. It was also not meant to offend any 300 piple-faced fanboys who might come to my house and trivia me to death about the time when they drew Batman's head 0.01% too small for his body. Those are my nighmares you know. I did mean the first part seriously, but then I got off topic. Oh well.
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Now all we have to do is find the school with the course on "Warner Brothers Animation Physics..."
- Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation
- Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly.
- Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter.
- All principles of gravity are negated by fear.
- As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.
- Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.
- Everything falls faster than an anvil
And more...
It's an obvious application of Quantum Gravity - when you go over a cliff, you have to look down to collapse the quantum gravity wavefunction, and thus you hit the bottom of the canyon.
I believe you have my stapler.
Reminds me of a Batman problem I did in freshman calculus. Basically, they set up a situation where Batman is supposed to jump from one roof to another, given a certain physical configuration. You have to figure out whether he'll make it, and if you work out the numbers it looks like he won't. But the solution in the back of the book, while acknowledging that that's how the numbers work out, says "but he'll make it anyway, because he's Batman." Textbook authors can be really cool sometimes.
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I already got mine from ACME University.
you don't have to outrun the bear, just the slowest person in your group.
I got a kick out of a freshman physics problem where you had to estimate the velocity of a student falling into the depths of hell by the doppler shift of his scream as heard by a stationary devil. Cool problems really make the boring math go down easier.
"The guy in the car actually does age negligibly less than someone standing around."
These experiments were obviously not performed anywhere near the Long Island Expressway during the rush hour starting Memorial day weekend.
Novel theory: Modern Man evolved from psychopath
When I was a freshman at the U of California we had a problem set assigned to our freshman physics class (classical mechanics) that was something along these lines:
"Superman: Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Calculate reasonable estimates of the kinetic energy, power, and impulse, respectively, of these feats; show your work."
As we got back our graded papers the professor remarked that we all pretty were much in the ballpark with our calculations, but one student's numbers were considerably greater. That's when the student said, "Well I used a greater mass than everybody else did since I remembered that Superman is the Man of Steel." He got full credit.
Presumably there is also a small sewing kit to mend his shirts after ripping all those buttons off...
We're talking about a guy around 6'6" or so, muscled as all-get-out, with long blond hair, tights, a sleeveless tunic-thingy, knee-high flared golden boots, and a helmet with wings on it. As far as looking gay goes, I think it's far too late for him.
And the brethren went away edified.
Well, Peter Parker is only like 5 foot 7 or so...