# What keeps The Flash on the ground? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693 "2011-03-23T05:19:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693/41 "2011-03-26T04:12:09Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > Bart (When he was Flash) had problems with controlling his speed, but he can do the speed reading and retention better than any of the others. He is, in fact, the only speedster with complete recall of everything he reads when he’s in speed mode. (Aside from some stuff he read while in the future during Final Crisis.) The others, it fades out over a relatively short period of time. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693/42 "2011-03-26T14:34:11Z")
I think that the reason is that the neuron flow has become reversed, either that or the Earths core has stopped rotating. Sorry but I heard an item about bad science in the movies on the radio the other day and couldn’t resist it. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693/43 "2011-03-27T05:52:01Z")
Apollyon: Exactly - I was pointing out that I had recognized that what Dr. Fidelius said was practically a quote from Quicksilver in Peter David’s X-Factor. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693/44 "2011-03-27T08:44:49Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Zero. My post was because I’d just had a conversation about Flash with a co-worker, who showed me some article or something saying that Flash would have to eat something like 30 cheeseburgers per minute or per second to consume enough calories for his super speed. To which, my response was to ask how many people had been killed by supersonic poo, because that meant there had to be a constant stream of high speed feces out the back end. At high enough speeds, even buildings would be damaged. Flash: Bringer of Death via High Velocity Feces. His _real_ superpower. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693/45 "2011-03-27T10:23:56Z")
If he just held out his hands, angled down slightly like the wings on a Formula One car, that’d produce a hellava lot of downforce. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693/46 "2011-03-27T13:17:59Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Apollyon: > > Exactly - I was pointing out that I had recognized that what Dr. Fidelius said was practically a quote from Quicksilver in Peter David’s X-Factor. You were expecting something original from me maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693/47 "2011-03-27T13:41:34Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > If he just held out his hands, angled down slightly like the wings on a Formula One car, that’d produce a hellava lot of downforce. And he could yell “Look! I’m a plane! _Bzzzzz!_” as he runs around like that. You know, to keep up that superheroic dignity. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693/48 "2011-03-27T15:19:22Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > If he just held out his hands, angled down slightly like the wings on a Formula One car, that’d produce a hellava lot of downforce. Well if we’re going to get realistic about aerodynamics, there’s the fact that no matter how strong or fast your legs were you simply couldn’t get enough traction to run more than about fifty miles per hour. I think that it’s more or less accepted by now that however the Flash’s super-speed works, it’s completely different than just an ordinary object moving very fast. In fact “super powers” despite a gloss of pseudo-scientific explanation appear to be pretty much be magic. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693/49 "2011-03-27T21:56:41Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > In fact “super powers” despite a gloss of pseudo-scientific explanation appear to be pretty much be magic. Yah think? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-keeps-the-flash-on-the-ground/575693.md?page=2)