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Re: How fast can Superman _RUN_?

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From: Dale Gerdemann
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 00:00
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   drizzt (drizzt@cml.com) wrote:
   : My original question as to how fast superman could run seems to have been 
   : misunderstood because a few people wrote me suggesting that on the moon 
   : or in outer space, he could run at the speed of light.  That would be 
   : flying and not RUNNING.

Doesn't running imply a little bit of flying between each step anyway?
In Superman's case, it could be quite a lot of flying. Assuming there
were conveniently placed planets or satelites so that Superman's foot
managed to always come down on a hard surface, couldn't Superman run
through outer space?

-- Dale Gerdemann
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From: dg@lambek.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (Dale Gerdemann)
Subject: Re: How fast can Superman _RUN_?
Date: 1995/05/16
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