@logy5000 said:
@wardemon32: The Exosphere is not that far from Earth. Otherwise it would take light almost 3 seconds to leave Earth. It can go around Earth over 7 times per second.
Yeah...that math is not that great. Here is a superior calculation of Man of Steel combat speed (imo)
5:08. Superman is temporarily taken aback in mid air. Zod tackles him and they go fying upwards. We later see them exchanging blows as they go higher, before stopping at the Wayne Satellite at 5:16.
They did start a few hundred feet from the ground, but that is negligible given the distance traveled. While they are fighting on the Satellite we can clearly see the Earth in the back ground, the Satellite is CLEARLY in Low-Earth Orbit.
Low Earth Orbit is a MAXIMUM of 1273 miles above the earth. So whoever got 400,000 miles...is smoking something. Anyways...
Now its hard to say exactly how high the how high the satellite is. Normally, satellites orbit at minimum of 200 miles above the earth and a maximum of about 1200 (in low earth orbit). Since we don't have an exact number, we'll just calculate both numbers and it will give us a range of speed.
200 miles in 8 seconds. or 25 miles per second. 1500 miles per minute. 90,000 miles per hour. Or Mach 117 (rounded down)
1200 miles in 8 seconds. or 150 miles per second. Or 9000 miles per minute. Or 540,000 miles per hour. Or Mach 703 (rounded down)
So there you have it. During his fight with Zod both Superman and Zod were flying anywhere from Mach 117 to Mach 703. Given that they were both doing this, it gives legitimacy to the speed feat.
Now I personally think its closer to 117 than it is 703 as I don't think they were quite 1200 miles above the earth. But I have no way of knowing. If the satellite is used by Wayne Enterprises its most probably for communications and thus probably lower...but if it was built by them and sold to someone else...it could be used for who knows what. Wayne Enterprises also has contracts with the military (in comics)...and if its in use by the military it could very well be 1200 miles above the earth, as some military satellites are.
I'm hoping they will tell us in MoS 2 what kind of satellite it was, as that would give us a far more accurate guess about the distance traveled.
Either way. Its extremely fast. MUCH faster than bullets. I don't remember what kind of gun was fired at phoenix, but a typical 9mm hangun bullet travels at about 950 miles per hour. Or a little over Mach 1. It doesn't compare to MoS at all, even using the lowest calculation of his speed.
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