Grrl Power #354 – And I would fly 500 miles…
A music video in case anyone isn’t familiar with Sydney’s tune. The first time I ever heard this song it was actually in an AMV. Not this one though. That was a video from before YouTube existed. This video is cut from an anime called Redline, which I’ve never heard of before. It looks amusing, even if it contains some… questionable physics.
Mach 4 is pretty impressive. America is about 2600 miles across, and mach 4 is about 2700 miles per hour at sea level, meaning Sydney can get anywhere in the contiguous US in about an hour. Well, excluding her needing to stop every ~15 minutes to refresh the air in her shield, but lets assume they do eventually equip her with some sort of air tank or rebreather.
I’ve never said explicitly where the team is located other than somewhere “central-ish.” I lean towards Dallas because that’s where I live, but Denver or Kansas City would make as much sense. The idea being that they’re already halfway to anywhere they need to go in the states, so really Sydney’s only 30-40 minutes away from anywhere USA, and Maxima can get there even faster if need be. Of course most of the team still needs conventional transport, but the centralized location minimizes their travel time as well. The eventual goal being to split the team into different groups as their membership grows and establish at the very least an East and West Coast base.
Being able to cross the US in an hour is pretty incredible, but it makes me think how ridiculous The Flash and Superman are, who, depending on the continuity reboot you’re referencing, can both travel at the speed of light. I don’t keep up with DC comics these days, in fact 95% of my DC knowledge comes from Batman the animated series, Superman TAS and Justice League animated. I assume the current power levels are tamped quite a bit though, cause otherwise it would cause enormous writing problems. Ignoring relativistic problems and city destroying wake – it’s fine, he’s using the “speed force” whatever – there are issues like if someone shot someone on the West Coast, The Flash could run from the East Coast and back 50 times before the bullet left the barrel. How was a guy like Captain Boomerang ever one of his enemies? Boomerangs are WAY SLOWER than bullets.
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Could you imagine if one of those unidentified orbs were super-strength? Combined with Sydney’s speed of flight she’d be one scary girl… but her wackiness already makes her scary… so I guess she’d be even scarier. lol
I actually have this one in my favorites
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Anyway go to Youtube, and paste: ZuIDbLe11yE :in behind the = of any video to watch the Music video.
“She’s all alone, all alone in a time of need! Because she’s racing and pacing and plotting the course. She’s riding and flying on her… jetstream??”
“And I would fly 500 more, just to be that sup-er; flyin out the door.”
The Lockheed SR-71 goes at mach 5, so yeah, pretty good. Especially when you consider the Lockheed a) can’t “stand still” without requiring ongoing maintenance (because it’s made to be fully functional only once its parts expand from the heat of air resistance), b) can’t go very far without shaking apart, c) needs hours of repair and bolt-tightening post-flight for every minute in the air, d) really only does the thing it’s made to do if you take it up to mach 3, then land, repair and refuel really fast, and then fly your spy mission. . .in short, I can see one reason the DOD is willing to give human flyers a gratuitous salary.
Wouldn’t Jiggawatt be the fastest flier (jumper from cloud to cloud) on the team as she turns into lightning that travels at the speed of light.
With Halo as number two meaning she exeeded Maxima already.
Jiggawatt might be the fastest traveler, for some paths, but it’s questionable whether what she does counts as “flying”.
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You know, that song seems to have become very VERY popular in the last few years. I hear it on the radio during my drive all the time. I honestly thought it was more recent, because I’d not heard of it before.
The Concorde wasn’t allowed to fly over the US for a couple of reasons. One was the noise of the sonic boom.
Admittedly another was the failure of the Boeing SST. I suspect there was lobbying to the effect of “If we can’t have an American supersonic passenger, we won’t have any at all.”
I wonder how high a human would have to fly before the boom wasn’t noticeable? The latest planes from what I can tell are less noisy, but it would be difficult to change a human’s profile to do the same. If Sydney gets an upgrade at some point to allow her to shape her force field, that might work (if she can visualize the correct shape I guess).