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  • Comics are weird. Asking questions like, could the Flash run so fast he exits the universe can almost always be answered with “if the plot calls for it.”

    He has the power of fast. He goes exactly as fast as he needs to. It’s magic, not science. They make it sound like science but it’s magic.

    Kinda like how Tony Stark invents time travel in an afternoon, or Peter Parker affords an apartment in NYC of even only barely.


  • It really, REALLY depends on which Flash we’re talking about. Even then it’s super inconsistent.

    I’m Snyderverse, he’s faster than light and rewinds time. I think on the TV show he does this too. But then sometimes other people can react to him? Idk it’s pretty dumb. If we’re applying physics to Flash, if he’s even running at 25% the speed of light, and the air he’s hitting isn’t causing a wave of fusion reactions akin to a supersonic shock wave from a fighter jet, colliding with something solid isn’t going to be much different.

    Somehow as he’s breaking through the light speed barrier gravity still affects him. But at those speeds he’s got enough momentum to leave the solar system if he runs off an incline and does a little hop I guess. He seems really stuck to the ground otherwise.





  • Back when I was a fabricator I made some of the critical components used in Amazon stores. Amazon was incredibly particular about every little detail, even on parts that didn’t call for tight tolerancing in any conceivable way. They, on several occasions, sent us one bad set of prints after another. Which we could only discover after completing a run of parts. We’re talking 20-30 thousand units that ended up being scrapped because of their shitty prints. Millions of dollars set on fire, basically.

    They became such a huge pain in the ass to work with we eliminated every single SKU they ordered from us.


  • Regular foam 3m earplugs, or the lighter river ones on a string are as good or better than the custom molded ones, when properly inserted. They’ll down out loud sounds and you’ll still be able to have a perfectly normal conversation with someone standing next to you.

    Most people aren’t wearing them correctly. Custom plugs tend to have this long tail that goes in to your ear canal, foam plugs should go as deep.

    For a couple of bucks for a hundred of these things it’s hard to imagine that the expense for a custom pair is even remotely worth it.