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Stupid DC Question
Mar. 26th, 2019 08:14 pmDid JASON TODD ever appear in the Gotham TV series? Yes, I did NOT mean Dick Grayson.
Useless Fact
Jan. 4th, 2016 04:04 pmFantasy Flight
Aug. 14th, 2014 08:29 pmSuperman 2 was on one of the TV networks we get this afternoon, and I have to say it hasn't aged as well as I expected. It got me thinking about things like speed and how we perceive motion.
I'm about average size for a human being. If I went like the Man of Steel and flew at a rate of my own body's "flight length" per second, that's only about 5 mph--or jogging speed. Just to put this in perspective:
* A WW1 biplane fighter at combat speed travels at five times its length per second.
* A WW2 heavy bomber or transport plane at cruise speed will also be moving at about five times its length per second. (Because of the difference in size compared to the smaller planes of WW1, this would mean double the actual speed!)
* A WW2 fighter at its combat speed would go 15 times its length per second.
* A modern fighter jet at Mach 1 would be moving 25 times its length per second.
* A NASCAR or LeMans race car at 200 miles per hour goes nearly 20 times its length per second.
We don't think of these things when we watch fantasy movies (or sci-fi space opera) because we don't want to suspend our disbelief. When Harry Potter is on his broomstick we don't clock his progress because he's moving at the speed of plot, not 45 miles per hour.
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Note To Myself
Mar. 23rd, 2013 11:10 pmAddenda: material is also hosted on YouTube.
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Useless Otaku Fact
Jan. 8th, 2013 01:26 am* Bismark/Tirpitz
* Queen Mary
* Titanic
* USS Saratoga (postwar, pre-nuclear power, aircraft carrier)
* King George V
* Prince of Wales...
Writer's Block: Superman
Jun. 8th, 2012 03:16 pmThe webcomic keeps me interested in comics in general, but the last time I bought a NEW comic book was when BATTLER BRITTON appeared a few years ago. I'm more likely to get collected volumes of past comics than buy the stuff on the racks these days.
Judging by what I have currently, I suppose my answer to the latter question is ENEMY ACE.
A rare mostly-safe-for-work NonAdventures of Wonderella today!
A Joke Decades In The Making
Apr. 10th, 2012 10:44 pm
I once posited a similar gag to David Willis of It's Walky!/Shortpacked!/Dumbing Of Age fame a handful of years ago, only using Spiderman, Daredevil and The Hulk.
Ranger Me?!
Dec. 4th, 2011 02:34 pmAll of a sudden I want a Tokusatsu costume. Which begs the question...what Ranger or Rider might you see me as?
Found At New Market
Sep. 29th, 2011 04:38 pm
( MORE PAST HERE )This is a 1970s vintage Bradley kit car, for sale at a junkyard for the princely sum of $300. Wish I had that and a truck and a garage I could borrow so I could take delivery myself. I'd build a "real-life superhero" proof-of-concept car out of it.
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Writer's Block: Live action hero
Aug. 10th, 2011 01:36 pmI thought American Splendour was pretty good. Haven't seen Ghost World or Scott Pilgrim yet.
I like superhero movies, but really don't get to see a lot of them. Since the Batman franchise revival of the Nineties, there have been enough made that they could probably fill out the entire programming block of a cable channel.
Tear It Down--Bed, Slats And All!
Aug. 8th, 2011 03:09 pmThis fellow is converting a surplus Chevy Caprice Police cruiser into the 1989 pattern Batmobile thanks to one of the body kits I've previously mentioned here on my LJ. In this video, he learns the virtue of the cordless recip saw.
Suffice it to say that I shall never do anything like this to Moonshine unless I absolutely have to. Tho' I have most of the tools to do it. If I wanted.
Coming Full Circle
Jul. 24th, 2011 05:59 pm
Aye, if Wonder Woman is basically ethnic Greek, her skin tone would be darker, right?
And Aquaman should have had skin like a manatee's. (Sorry, he and his Marvel counterpart Sub-Mariner will never get love from me.)
Wonderella Makes A Batman Joke
Jul. 23rd, 2011 01:56 pm
I bet David Willis is yelling, "Damn You, Justin Pierce!"
