Super-Jump to Lightspeed!

[PTTG]

So in a simple supers game we were trying out this evening, one player decided to buy a few levels of superjump (For his Gigantism-afflicted albino).

He would go on to propel himself as a human projectile, destroying three helicopters with ease simply by landing on them at mach 6.

So then, I wanted to figure out how much the ability to reach lightspeed with a jump would cost. Including room to run up, but demanding an otherwise ordinary human, it would be possible to reach 304226850.13 meters per second with a mere 28 levels of superjump- 280 points.

For much less than that, it's possible to hop up to orbital velocities, at which point you could certainly take off at that velocity, but it's extremely unlikely that you would land, as you'd effectively be jumping into a solid wall of air.

This is all a long way of saying that GMs should probably keep an eye on superjump and remember the very important point which is, every sentence in the rulebook includes the unwritten fragment, "with GM's permission".

[RobKamm]

How much DR/IT did the Jumper have to survive multiple high speed colisions with (presumably airborne) vehicles?

[Mateus]

Originally Posted by RobKamm

How much DR/IT did the Jumper have to survive multiple high speed colisions with (presumably airborne) vehicles?

That was exactly my first thinking. Probably the DR to survive such task is much more expensive than the Super Jump by itself.

[Xplo]

I'm a little fuzzy on what would happen if you literally tried to jump to light speed - relativistic physics isn't something I'm well-schooled on - but I suppose that as you accelerated to a significant fraction you would find it much more difficult to continue accelerating, and also your perception of time would change drastically.

Also, doing this in an atmosphere would presumably result in a giant explosion as you impart insane quantities of kinetic energy to the air around you.

[zoncxs]

Originally Posted by Xplo

I'm a little fuzzy on what would happen if you literally tried to jump to light speed - relativistic physics isn't something I'm well-schooled on - but I suppose that as you accelerated to a significant fraction you would find it much more difficult to continue accelerating, and also your perception of time would change drastically.

Also, doing this in an atmosphere would presumably result in a giant explosion as you impart insane quantities of kinetic energy to the air around you.

this would happen: http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

awesome site for awesome science!

[Disliker of the mary sue]

Originally Posted by zoncxs

this would happen: http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

awesome site for awesome science!

Woo more XKCD,

So if I'm reading it correctly firing things at the speed of light would cause nuclear explosions? Hm and that just with a baseball, with something the size of a human the explosion would probably be much worse (I think, then again I only got a bare grasp of theoritical physics and that has a tendency to throw common sense out of the window)

[Witchking]

Originally Posted by zoncxs

this would happen: http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

awesome site for awesome science!

Hee Hee Hee...I was chuckling all the way through that...but most priceless was the last line...

A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered "hit by pitch", and would be eligible to advance to first base.