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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.


  • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldSuperman is a moron
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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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    Buddy, listen to what people are trying to tell you. The Earth doesn’t change direction, time changes direction. We are watching the earth “re-winding”. Superman individually goes back in time and we see from his perspective time going backwards. He doesn’t impart forces on the planet to turn it backwards on it’s revolution.

    He did it because he has to choose between stopping the missile or saving Lois. Going back in time means there’s 2 Supermans for a short period of time so he can do both.





  • Not knowing your own licence plate number is indicative of being out of touch. Normal people need to know it to operate many parking ticket machines, when paying their registration, car insurance, parking in hotel car parks.

    I can imagine when you have assistants to do all this you might think it’s a boon to have a digital assistant help you with basic world skills. Even just the arrogance of asking an LLM for tyre information instead of asking someone at the tyre shop.