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Firstly, I would like to say that the blog post calculating his FTL speed is well executed. LordXcano did a great job calculating what is on the screen, there is no downplaying this.
However, while it captures what's being shown on the screen(him flying around the earth), it doesn't account for the context of what's actually happening; Superman (Christopher Reeve) turned back time with movement alone. The "time" used on the calculation is only what's relative to us, the viewer, and not what's occurring in the scene, as time is moving backward. Supes has time travel on his profile, but it's pretty clear that it's due to fast movement, not a specific power that only activates once he flies around the earth a number of times.
If we can agree that Superman had achieved time travel by movement alone, we should be able to establish immeasurable speed on his profile. Since the speed formula is S = D/T, and time is undefined in this instance, it's impossible to give an accurate measurement of how fast he was going.
I don't see a valid argument as to why not to give him immeasurable speed.
However, while it captures what's being shown on the screen(him flying around the earth), it doesn't account for the context of what's actually happening; Superman (Christopher Reeve) turned back time with movement alone. The "time" used on the calculation is only what's relative to us, the viewer, and not what's occurring in the scene, as time is moving backward. Supes has time travel on his profile, but it's pretty clear that it's due to fast movement, not a specific power that only activates once he flies around the earth a number of times.
If we can agree that Superman had achieved time travel by movement alone, we should be able to establish immeasurable speed on his profile. Since the speed formula is S = D/T, and time is undefined in this instance, it's impossible to give an accurate measurement of how fast he was going.
I don't see a valid argument as to why not to give him immeasurable speed.