# Everyone gets this wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, movies\ **Created:** [June 3, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-this-wrong/1019166 "2025-06-03T15:48:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 70
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-this-wrong/1019166/70 "2025-06-05T09:40:09Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > And yet…it’s a movie, people. You cannot debate the poor astrophysics involved in Supe’s _widdershins_ Earthly spin. You can’t. Sure, but you can discuss what it is that the movie appears to be showing us on screen - and in this case, it does appear to be showing that either: The flow of time is subject to its own inertia, or The flow of time is dependent on the direction the Earth rotates. There was a guy here on the board years ago who, apparently having taken the movie as a science documentary, was arguing one (possibly both) of the above. > [@Question about the Space Shuttle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-space-shuttle/133577): > > How fast would the Space Shuttle have to reverse-orbit the Earth to turn back time like Superman did? Does NASA plan to try this in the future? When? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-this-wrong/1019166)._