16 jul 06
"If the Flash, traveling at 700 MPH arrives at an open bar at 10:30AM, how does that tallest building manage to remain standing? For the matter, how does the Flash?"
10:1 this is the same person who submitted the zombie question. if not, it's a similar species.
i'm not sure that the question was carefully worded -- i think so, though. it implies that the open bar is in the tallest building in the city. i was thinking maybe the submitter meant to type "the" instead of "that", but i'll give him/her/it the benefit of the doubt, even though this makes the question harder to answer (as opposed to "the tallest building was on the other side of town"). the presence of "for the matter" makes me doubt careful wording, but i'll still answer the question the way i said i would.
700mph isn't fast enough to generate enough breeze to knock over a building (even if the building is the one being entered), even though it would probably blow some stuff around in the bar.
Occasionally, the top speeds of the Flashes are light speed, although Barry Allen and Wally West have been shown to have sped faster than light (as mentioned previously). -- secret source
in the second component question, are you implying that the flash drinks so much in the bar that he falls over? because that would be cute. did you mean "open bar" as in "a free bar", or "a bar that's open for buisness"? because if it's a free bar, then the flash has little-to-no chance of remaining standing, especially because he doesn't have any pockets in that spandex or whatever suit to carry any coin, yo; the flash is going to hit an open bar pretty hard.
if it's just an "open bar", as in "a bar that is open for business," then the flash might crashi through the door. if the door actually is open, then he'd still not knock the building over, but in that case, the flash wouldn't remain standing regardless of the presence of free alcohol, although i don't know what other superpowers the flash has other than super-speed (maybe he can withstand closed doors). i think maybe the bar is just open for business (and not free), because the asker specifies 10:30am.
answering questions this way makes me feel sort of autistic, literal-minded, and humorless to the point of madness. it's totally boring to read, too.
the flash is a dc comics character. i've always been a marvel man, but i'm starting to better appreciate DC, which i think has a little bit more character and maturity, and doesn't take itself so seriously (consider lobo). i have an obsession with superheroes. to this day, i often fantasize about having god-like powers of some kind. if i were to choose three powers (other than silly ones, like "manipulate all energy to any degree", "collapse spacetime", or "do anything"), i'd pick:
- super-strength
- teleportation
- invisibility
my first thought is the way i'd employ these powers to rob a bank. i guess i'd be a super-criminal, rather than a super-hero. of course, whose "heroes" are these "superheroes", anyway?" the true superhero, unclouded by morality, seeking greatness rather than goodness.
