# Superman, Humans exposed to Super Flight **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 19, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-humans-exposed-to-super-flight/510732 "2009-09-19T18:03:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-humans-exposed-to-super-flight/510732/21 "2009-09-20T19:31:13Z")
> [@SeanArenas](#): > > I just want to know: Does the person become > a: chunky salsa > b: ash > c: component atoms, or > d: something else entirely > > when exposed to that atmospheric friction? (Am I phrasing the question right?) Ash, see the “There is no Santa Claus” link. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-humans-exposed-to-super-flight/510732/22 "2009-09-20T19:48:19Z")
> [@](#): > > If stuff is sliding uphill, that rather indicates to me that the Earth going backwards is the same deal. The script is just a description of what we see onscreen, and what we see onscreen is from the point of view of Superman’s timeline. So that doesn’t say anything more than what the movie did. > [@](#): > > How can we tell? Watch the scene: > > ``` > * Superman zips around the Earth really fast, it slows down, stops and reverses > * Superman slows down, the Earth is still going backwards, as is time > * After he's rewound it the correct amount, he zips around the Earth again in the opposite direction from before, to make it spin in the right direction again. > > ``` I don’t remember that at all… Can a better searcher than I find it on YouTube or something? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-humans-exposed-to-super-flight/510732/23 "2009-09-20T20:01:19Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfcN8vStJw) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-humans-exposed-to-super-flight/510732/24 "2009-09-20T20:55:58Z")
OK, I concede the point. I’m guessing that the filmmaker was trying to copy similar scenes from the comics, but didn’t quite get it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-humans-exposed-to-super-flight/510732/25 "2010-02-13T10:13:15Z")
I assume everyone knows that was supposed to be the end of the second movie, but they got worried that the first one wouldn’t go over well, and there wouldn’t be a sequel. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-humans-exposed-to-super-flight/510732/26 "2010-02-13T11:17:52Z")
Pre -crisis Superman would wrap his cape around the person being carried. Since the cape was Kryptonian the fabric was indestructible and friction resistant. It could also be stretched. The person being carried would be protected in a cocoon. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-humans-exposed-to-super-flight/510732/27 "2010-02-13T23:35:10Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > You know…I have a feeling like a person can be exposed to pretty insane temperatures if its for a short enough period of time. If Superman could take you through the atmosphere fast enough, the extreme heat might not really matter because you’re exposed to it for such a brief period of time that it just doesn’t have time to do anything. > > For example, look up the guy who sticks his hand in molten lead. The man is protected by a barrier of water vapor, not the fact that the molten lead ‘just doesn’t have time to do anything’. Look up the Leidenfrost effect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-humans-exposed-to-super-flight/510732.md?page=1)