It’s no dumber than Star Trek saying that slingshotting yourself around the sun is a tried and tested method of time travel.

Yeah, I've never understood why people don't get this. The scene has him flying around the planet so that we can see within a single frame what he is doing and what effect it is producing. Granted, it is completely made up physics he is using, but it isn't as stupid or unreasonable as people portray it as.

Always took it as a representation of him going faster than light, so he goes back in time and gets a chance to undo the bad thing. As far as comic book physics goes, it's not that bad.

Then Donner shouldn't have had Superman flying around the earth in the same direction that the rotation changed to. Like if Superman had been flying around the world North-South, it wouldn't look like he was physically turning the rotation of the planet back with his flying.

Wow, do I feel stupid. Thank you.

Does Superman have access to the SpeedForce ?

so i have a hard time to decode your comment, maybe it is because i am not deeply familiar with superman, but this comic is not about time travel.

earth's rotational speed on equator is roughly 1600 km/h (or ~1000 mph in freedom units). anything else on earth, including people, is also rotating with the same speed. we just don't have the feel for that speed because nothing in our inertial system is moving, the only thing we can see moving are celestial objects, as we rotate around them.

if it would really be possible to instantly switch the direction on rotation, anything that is not bolted to earth would steel have its momentum and continue moving in the speed and direction given by it.

so anything, including people, would continue flying ~1600 kmh, and since the earth is now rotating the other direction, it would factually result in the speed of ~3200 kmh relative to surface of earth, killing anything alive almost instantly (as soon they hit any object connected to ground.

object incapable of withstanding this momentum switch, like i assume all houses, would instantly collapse.

this all would be accompanied by winds at the speed of ~3200 kmh, unless superman's magic trick can somehow reverse rotation of the atmosphere together with earth.

this is what you see in the last panel. long story short, the fucking moron would instantly destroy earth.

Watch that 8 hour workday quickly get moved first to 10 hours (capitalist argument being that it’s the new 1/3rd of the “day”), before ultimately consuming all additional 6 hours and having you work 14 hours straight like some feudal peasant serf.

Down boy! There's a time and a place, and some of us just want to read some comics, as the world burns all around us, ya'know?

nope, i dont want the current heatwave to last longer during the day, if you could make the nights longer I'm on it

I have an idea:

We all work 2 hours a day.

The commute would be longer

I think it'd be great for like 2 days. After that your circadian rhythm is sufficiently fucked that you're somewhat unlikely to still be enjoying yourself.

Maybe after a month or two we've mostly adapted and are sleeping 10-12 hours. That still leaves us with a cool 2-4 extra hours, not too shabby.

Alternative proposal: simply change the working day to 6 hours.

unfortunately i don't have to imagine that. they have a literal pressure test.

It clearly shows that superman was right and time was moving backwards

Lol same with first and fourth, just with difference speech bubbles and Superman.