Comments on: Silver Age Flash

By: SN

SN — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:43:15 +0000

Flash’s weight gain may just be the relativistic mass increase from high velocity. Hang on… I’ll work it out…

To go from a rest mass of 195lb to 1000lb means a velocity of 98% the speed of light. Why it only occurs once (rather than every time he runs), and persists even while not running (when his mass should be normal), is a mystery.

Incidentally, if 1000lb was his rest mass and he went at 98% the speed of light, his mass would be 5128lb, which is just over two tonnes. Try sweating that off!

By: JIm

JIm — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:10:40 +0000

the way i have always perceived the speed of thought is that you think of lets say, the crab nebula (which is million light years away) and BAM! you’re there. You have successfully covered a distance faster than light.

By: ArekExcelsior

ArekExcelsior — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:16:59 +0000

“The vague and inflexible nature of the BMI is main reason behind the “obesity” epidemic. If you had two people who where 6′2 and weighed 200 pounds, but one had a lot of muscle and the other had a lot of flab, both of them would be considered “overweight.””

The problem is that the BMI and similar indices have been just as vague and inflexible for decades now yet the problem’s getting worse. Americans ARE getting fatter on average.

By: Jonathan Hohensee

Jonathan Hohensee — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:24:53 +0000

“I am 5′7″ tall. When I was 16, and pretty thin, without an ounce of fat in evidence anywhere on my body, I weighed about 160. I ran track – didn’t lift weights. I wouldn’t have been described as “muscular” by any means. Note that under current standards my BMI would have been 25.1 – just inside the “overweight” range.

During my 20s I weighed about 170. Again, with no evidence of excess fat, in good shape – but definitely “overweight” from looking at my BMI.

Now I weigh 190. You can see my gut, but it’s very minor. But add two more pounds and I’d be “obese”. Yeah, whatever.”

The vague and inflexible nature of the BMI is main reason behind the “obesity” epidemic. If you had two people who where 6′2 and weighed 200 pounds, but one had a lot of muscle and the other had a lot of flab, both of them would be considered “overweight.”

By: OptimusShr

OptimusShr — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:02:44 +0000

We take a picture of your head, add the Spider-sense lines and write: “Medical and scientific senses tingling!”

By: Maire Smith

Maire Smith — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:45:43 +0000

Barry Allen, skinny? Which pictures are you looking at? He looks pretty muscular to me compared with real human men (as opposed to Superman, Batman, and so on, who would all definitely score as obese, because of their huge muscles).

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:01:36 +0000

I’d assume all Barry Allen’s running around means he’s in good athletic shape, so the weight is muscle, not fat. Thus his 1,000 pound form likely had a lot more muscle than the typical person of that weight.

Actually, Captain Cold’s statement is not *too* far off from reality. Cold-air (”arctic”) mirages are real and well-known. And if his cold-gun shoots liquid helium, that’s not far from absolute zero. What he thinks is more like a “this goes to 11″ for his cold-gun.

Absolute zero is −459.67 F.

If his cold-gun does a physically possible -459.66 F, he could even be excused for rounding off.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:55:36 +0000

Modern BMI calculations mystify me.

I am 5′7″ tall. When I was 16, and pretty thin, without an ounce of fat in evidence anywhere on my body, I weighed about 160. I ran track – didn’t lift weights. I wouldn’t have been described as “muscular” by any means. Note that under current standards my BMI would have been 25.1 – just inside the “overweight” range.

During my 20s I weighed about 170. Again, with no evidence of excess fat, in good shape – but definitely “overweight” from looking at my BMI.

Now I weigh 190. You can see my gut, but it’s very minor. But add two more pounds and I’d be “obese”. Yeah, whatever.

I’m looking at the calculator here: http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/

By: Maxime

Maxime — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:50:09 +0000

Actually, light is much faster than that. It can travel up to 1 000 000 000 km/h, wich is 300 000 000 per second. I doubt there is something faster than that in our head.