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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
Cool stuff. If you spend any time reading /r/whowouldwin, you occasionally come across examples of comic book writers totally flubbing feats of superheroes. I recall one example being something along the lines of one comic of Flash having him save tons of people from a sudden catastrophe by transporting them a long distance away one by one. This feat apparently put Flash's "real" speed at something like several times past the speed of light even though the character was supposed to not be nearly that fast.
I wonder if they accounted for time dilation and space contraction in the direction of travel.
Bear in mind that if you were traveling at 99% the speed of light, your relativistic gamma factor would be ~7. The distances in front of and behind you are 1/7 what would be measured by a stationary observer. You can get from here to a star 7 light years away in only 1 year of travel time as observed by you.
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