Comment on at least no more trolley problems

• Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depends on the time in which he had to do the deceleration. I did some more looking and I guess that this page comes from Action Comics 1000 from a short bit where the current iteration of Superman is getting deja vu like flashes of things that this iteration of the character has not done but were rather part of the overall character's history.

  So this likely came from a very early iteration of Superman that A) wasn't nearly as strong or fast, and B) that the situation most likely _ began _ with attempting to stop a runaway train from crashing. Then while attempting to stop the train, a child wandered into the path of the train and Clark couldn't exactly let go of the train to move the kid out of harm's way.

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If he can decelerate the passengers in the train non lethally, he by definition also had time to accelerate the kid nonlethally. Supes has muscles for brains.

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    • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not if he was already pushing the train when the kid entered the equation. If this is an earlier version of Superman as this seems to be and he was already pushing the train when the kid came into the picture, then the only way for him to accelerate off the train to grab the kid is if he pushes off the train. Which effectively creates the same "stopping the train too fast," problem.

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      • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If he pushes off the train, starts from Vo=Vtrain, he simply has to push off less than he would if he were standing still to get to the kid, since Vkid_intercept would be quite a bit greater than 0 anyway.

        He would also decelerate (and then accelerate) during the kid intercept, which being ‘super’, I would expect him to be able to do, as he can perceive things faster as well.

        Snap the neck? Just support the neck. Just put the kid on his whole torso so the kid’s body experiences the acceleration as a monolith as if on a rocket seat.

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• SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a whole locomotive between them to dampen the impact.

  Same reason why modern cars are designed to crumple. It absorbs more of the impact before it reaches the people inside.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So only the first ten or so cars will be scenes of unbelievable carnage. Meanwhile, he could have simply picked up the kid and cushioned him from the impact.

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    • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So I did some more looking and it seems like this image is from a... basically a clip show of a "story" that's going through the history of Superman.

      So in that context we're likely looking at a significantly less powerful Superman earlier in his history. Which also means that the situation was likely that the train itself was going to crash and he'd been pushing on it for much longer with the kid having wandered into the tracks while he was in the middle of stopping the train.

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