[Torg] Jumping in Torg

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Benjamin Grant <benn at 4efix.com> wrote:
> Quite frankly, I find it disreputable to pose a question and then state
> one's removal from the subject.  I will answer it anyways:

My apologies.. but your tone of statement was pretty much a "I am
using what I want, and so there is no debate..." at which point I
should have just said "Ok, sorry bye" versus my comment.

> The media of comic books is NOT the source of the concept of human beings
> with extraordinary ability, nor is it the most popular or most lucrative
> forms of expression of the idea.  The superhero *movies*, for example,
> vastly outsold the comic books, and were seen by vastly more people as well.
>

By analogy, the movie version of Beowulf is thus the source of Beowulf
since it vastly outsold everything printed version. Its an ok common
ground.. I just wish I had known it from the first post as I would
have known what 'units of measurement' to respond in if any.

> This discussion was never about comic books.  It was about superheroes.  The
> two are not synonymous.

My apologies, but this is about the first time in this thread where I
realized you were using this differentiation.

>>> In any case, you make my point for me: for a super to be *less* effective
>>> than a "dead weight" object *because* of his powers is a logical
> disconnect
>>> much greater than person having superpowers to begin with.
> <...>
>>Sure... I see this coversation is over for me.
>
> I will take it that you are persuaded then, and that you like me find it
> unbearably absurd that after covering 3.5 THOUSAND meters in less than a
> second one can't even leap a small street.

It depends on the basis of the power. If its because the person has
lowered their mass to keep momentum a constant when they are in
contact with the ground.. then it would make sense that they would
just move X feet because their momentum is constant. To be honest, I
would say that its pretty absurd that they were able to move 3.5
thousand meters on their legs <period>. The fact that they can says
that what I assume is normal physics is not working and I would have
no basis to say they can or can not leap a street.



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