KICKMAN, LLC
Chapter 31 "Injustice!" page 14
by Matt S. Law, Esq.
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That was a lot of drawn panels just to catch a guy. But just goes to show that Aquarium is not useless.
It stands to reason that a hero who is more powerful in water (and who dies if he's out of water for too long) might know the locations of all the major pools, ponds, estuaries, reflecting pools, and commemorative fountains in Hero City. For emergencies.
I know we have some mathematicians and physics-ians that read Kickman, so I'll let them double check my work here. Aquarium is my Aquaman analog--and according to Green Ronin's DC Hero's Handbook (which is canon because they wrote it in conjunction with DC Comics), Aquaman has a swimming speed of 500 mph. I asked Grok, "How far would a human body travel if propelled at 500 mph assuming it is launched at 20 degree angle to the ground?" It gave me a very long answer with several equations and came up with a little over 50 miles--but that assumes no air resistance. So I'd say using a few pools to intercept a flying teammate is within the realm of reality. Well, comic book reality. In fact, if he had a direct path, he could have probably done it in one giant dolphin leap.
I stand by the page. Although, this was a lot of panels and a lot of drawing. Next page is just going to be a full-page close up of Sparta's boobs.
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To determine how far a human body would travel if propelled at 500 mph at a 20° angle to the ground, we model this as a projectile motion problem under ideal conditions: no air resistance (a common physics approximation for such calculations, especially since the query doesn't specify drag), constant gravity ((g = 32.2) ft/s² or (9.8) m/s²), and launch from ground level with the goal of finding the horizontal range to where it lands back at the same height.
Step 1: Convert initial speed to consistent units
- Initial speed (v_0 = 500) mph.
- Convert to feet per second:
(v_0 = 500 \times \frac{5280 \text{ ft/mi}}{3600 \text{ s/h}} = 500 \times \frac{22}{3} \approx 733.333) ft/s.
(Exact: (v_0 = \frac{500 \times 22}{3} = \frac{11000}{3}) ft/s.)
Step 2: Resolve initial velocity into components
- Horizontal: (v_{0x} = v_0 \cos \theta = v_0 \cos 20^\circ).
- Vertical: (v_{0y} = v_0 \sin \theta = v_0 \sin 20^\circ).
Step 3: Derive the range formula
The time of flight (t) is the duration until the projectile returns to the initial height (symmetric trajectory):
(t = \frac{2 v_{0y}}{g} = \frac{2 v_0 \sin \theta}{g}).
Horizontal range (R =) distance traveled horizontally:
(R = v_{0x} \times t = (v_0 \cos \theta) \times \frac{2 v_0 \sin \theta}{g} = \frac{v_0^2 \sin 2\theta}{g}).
(This uses the double-angle identity (\sin 2\theta = 2 \sin \theta \cos \theta); maximum range occurs at (\theta = 45^\circ).)
Step 4: Compute numerically
- (\sin 40^\circ \approx 0.6428) (since (2\theta = 40^\circ)).
- (g = 32.2) ft/s².
- (v_0^2 = \left( \frac{11000}{3} \right)^2 = \frac{121000000}{9}).
- Numerator: (v_0^2 \sin 40^\circ = \frac{121000000}{9} \times 0.6428 \approx 8639135.555).
- (R = \frac{8639135.555}{32.2} \approx 268290) feet.
- Convert to miles: (268290 \div 5280 \approx 50.81) miles.
(Exact computation yields approximately 50.81 miles; with more precise (\sin 40^\circ = \sin(40 \times \pi/180)), it's consistent.)
The body would travel approximately 50.8 miles (or about 81.8 km) horizontally before landing.
In reality, air resistance would drastically reduce this distance at such high speeds (terminal velocity for a human is ~120–200 mph, and drag forces would dominate), but the ideal projectile calculation gives this result.
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Calculating things in miles and feet/sec is just so complex. There's a reason most of the world went metric.
Moving at 500mph in water has to present some other challenges. The equivalent of a sonic boom ought to happen at much lower speed.
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That 500 mph at 20 degrees calc made me grin because it actually lines up with comic book reality, air drag aside. The math check and and the pool detours sold me on Aquarium being super useful, and the pannels were worth it. As a numbers guy I love when the physics sorta add up even if the dolphin leap logic is a bit realisitc :) That closer about Sparta is wild, youve earned a breather page.
On my comic home page are some real-life physicists. One of them did a whole set of equations on hitting someone with a rubber dodge ball at Mach 1 and concluded that it would actually probably incapacitate someone and not just turn them into paste. I didn't ask AI about that one first, so I'm glad that my comic physics are maintaining a degree of realism... :)
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