Comment on at least no more trolley problems

• Hathaway@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes. In the opposite direction, gradually. It’s called deceleration. The mass of the train would spread the impact of Superman hitting and slowing it across the entire train, rather than the frame of a tiny human going from not very fast, to super man flying speed. At least that’s how I’m rationalizing it with rudimentary physics. I’m probably wrong.

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• SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s a whole locomotive between them to dampen the impact.

  Same reason why modern cars are designed to crumple. It absorbs more of the impact before it reaches the people inside.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So only the first ten or so cars will be scenes of unbelievable carnage. Meanwhile, he could have simply picked up the kid and cushioned him from the impact.

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