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    5 days ago

    okey, “buddy”. please educate me. what do you think this comics is about? what do you think is happening in the last frame? and why should “going back in time” result in two supermans at the same time?

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      In this comic, they are suggesting that Superman going really fast will impart a physical force onto the planet Earth, like grabbing a spinning basketball and making it spin in the opposite direction. The affect shown here is that the objects on the surface of the planet will experience being thrown around.

      This is based on a misinterpretation of what happens in the 1978 feature film Superman, starring Christopher Reeves. In the final act of this film Lex Luther presents two simultaneous threats for Superman to react to: a missile launched to kill many people, and Lois Lane in mortal danger. As the viewer we are expecting to watch him choose one over the other. He stops the missile, Lois Lane dies. Stricken by grief he comes up with a plan to travel back in time, presumably by travelling faster than light. Having travelled back to before Lois died there is now two Supermans: past Superman who is currently dealing with the missile, and now future Superman who goes and saves Lois. At a certain point past Superman travels back in time and there are no longer two Supermans.

      So, it turns out that the author of the comic is the moron and relies on falsehoods for their punchline to be valid.

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        In this comic, they are suggesting that Superman going really fast will impart a physical force onto the planet Earth

        hey, so you do understand!

        So, it turns out that the author of the comic is the moron and relies on falsehoods

        of course. because going really fast resulting in imparting physical force is moronic, while going really fast resulting in time travel makes complete sense.

        Having travelled back to before Lois died there is now two Supermans

        what? i mean… what?

        you are spouting complete nonsense that doesn’t make sense even in the scifi frame of mind and you call someone making fun out of that a moron… are you sure it is the other side who is the moron? hm?

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          You must be deliberately ignoring things at this point.

          Have you never seen a science fiction time travel film where a person occupies the same timeline more than once? You’ve not seen Back to the Future? Or Doctor Who? Or more then half of any TV show or movie about time travel?

          Also, travelling really fast to time travel, while not grounded in reality, is actually based off the theory of relativity and time dilation. It was also the premise of the Planet of the Apes films.

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            Have you never seen a science fiction time travel film where a person occupies the same timeline more than once? You’ve not seen Back to the Future? Or Doctor Who? Or more then half of any TV show or movie about time travel?

            my sincere apology for contradicting the time travel education you got at the university of hollywood 😂

            Also, travelling really fast to time travel, while not grounded in reality, is actually based off the theory of relativity and time dilation.

            it is not. theory of relativity and time dilation does not allow to travel to past. (it does not allow to time travel anywhere, because no massive element can accelerate to faster than light speed, but between forward and backward directions, the backward time travel is even more impossible than the forward one 😆)

            It was also the premise of the Planet of the Apes films.

            yeah, it is not grounded in reality, but it was on tv, so it must be good! (also you can notice they went forward in time in that movie)