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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You were expecting something original from me maybe?
And he could yell “Look! I’m a plane! Bzzzzz!” as he runs around like that. You know, to keep up that superheroic dignity.
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.
Yah think?