JUNI0R

Happy birthday, Plas.

Let's hope you don't get hit by a meteorite this year!

Update!!!1:

Global Name: Usually use @Cambo
Server: Union.
City of Heroes/City of Villains
RP Characters:
Volt Master
Ultimune
Cambo
Crucifix III
Type of RP: Galaxy Girl Meet or, if offered, in missions.
Can be contacted: In game mail (be aware, my dad may get the e-mail before me), Forum PM's
(to this forum account, not the Cambo one as that's now my dads) and MSN Messenger (ask for MSN details).
Times on: No set times. Usually 8:30P.M onwards.
Timezone: The English one. =D

((OOC: I can see a Marvel Civil War type thing happening here. Fun fun fun! ))

An eager you hero tapped rapidly at the wooden door. It was mid-day, but the apartment door in Founder's Fall creaked slowly open to reveal a tired looking Volt Master.

"Mister Master! I was wondering if--" The eager young hero was cut short by the door slamming shut in his face. From behind the barrier, he heard muffled words of the knackered hero.

"Bite me."

Maybe he's had a bit too much wodka? =P

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However, Earth's Radius is around 40,000 km (40,057km). Doing that in 23 seconds is about 1739km/s. Which is about 150 times escape velocity. After the first step, the character would fly into space at a tangent to the point where he last touched the surface.

In fact, if memory serves from my Astrophysics degree, unless there is a force actively pushing an object towards the Earth in addition to Gravity pulling on it, the absolute fastest it is possible to circumnavigate the globe is around 85 minutes (I'll let someone else figure that out) without flying off into space.

Now, I accept that comic-book physics allow us to ignore little things like the laws of physics, but I personally like an explanation.


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As I don't have any fancy degrees [I'm only in wittle ol' High School =P], would you mind if I were to put foward a hypothosis I've just came up with in the blink of an eye?

Considering you know more than me on this, I was hoping if you could tell me if it's possible or not.

Basically: Volt Master can control electricty, so, the extra force he has keeping him down on the Earth's surface may be electric-magnetism? Perhaps he may be able to make a powerful enough pull to keep him on the ground while running.

As I said, I'm not sure if it would work, but I was just wondering if that may satisfy any curious readers.

If not, off to try and find a good way to fudge a reason for me then.

Volt Master has a pretty big god-mod in his bio.

I've set him up as one of the fastest beings on Earth [He brags that he once orbited the world in 23 seconds, but we all know he's a lieing bint]. However, I've made sure he doesn't run too fast in public zones [true, he did used to make sonic booms in the middle of towns to see how much of a window bill he could rack up, but that's far behind him].

He can run fast enough to run on water IC, but of course there isn't a script in the game which allows that.

I'm coming up with ways to limit his speed in the near future though, as I've begun to realize that perhaps there is such a thing as 'too fast'.