This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
MCE: would this also include other actives that should take far long/short but are done in more/less time then is realistically? The example that keeps sticking in my mind is from The Incredible Crash Dummies were resembling one of the dummies takes hours when other have been doing the same in seconds.
Looney Toons: I removed ", and in fact the name of the trope originated from a discussion Joss Whedon had with a fan, who asked him about the speed of the spaceship Serenity at the often-referred-to "Maximum Burn"", because the name (and phrase) in fact originated some years earlier — in a message
posted to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated on June 11, 2000 by J Michael Straczynski.
RedBeardSean: D'oh. I have a crappy memory. Thanks for the correction.
Morgan Wick: There's also a case of a helicopter breaking the laws of physics by flying from Santa Barbara to LA in twenty minutes. This sounded semi-plausible to me, so I did the math myself. As the crow flies, it's about 86 miles from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles; to cover that distance in twenty minutes means you're going 258 mph, which is a little over a third of the speed of sound. While most helicopters probably can't get past half that, it's hardly breaking the laws of physics, especially in a jet plane.
Ununnilium: Exaggeration for effect; he didn't literally mean breaking physics, just breaking plausbility.
Silent Hunter: Now I think about it, it was more like 15 minutes. I remember doing the math for this myself when I saw it and worked it out at about 300 mph. It is physically impossible (owing to the forces on the chopper) for a chopper to go past c. 250 mph. Which, BTW, makes Airwolf impossible.
Morgan Wick: Well, you might also have originally been wrong about the distance, which I only was able to get because I had a mapping program. If you're going by, say, mileages on a mileage chart intended for drivers, or the mile markers on US 101, keep in mind that no road between two cities is perfectly straight.
Silent Hunter: With regards to LA to DC in twenty minutes, am I right in thinking this relates to Day 6 episode 3? Because the IAA headquarters are also in DC.
Fast Eddie: ...LA to DC in twenty minutes... Typo, right? You might be able to get an ICBM from LA to DC in about 35 minutes, or a little longer, if you didn't want it to bounce really high when it got there.
We need a picture of Piccolo flying at "top speed" in the Frieza Saga of Dragonball Z to head this page.
The flying bison does not apparently travel much faster than a Fire Nation ship, nor is he capable of flying high. Sometimes, due to plot considerations, they travel through other means, taking boats while Appa swims, or using sandgliders while Appa is missing.
Lale: That... has nothing to do with this trope.
Alan:
Gandalf: "A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”
I think this should totally be the page quote.
Example I'm not adding right now: the "How did you get here so fast?" "We— wait. How *did* we get here?" scene from The Emperor's New Groove. —Document N
