Is This an Example of Bad Math in Comics?

I was reading Justice League of America #1,000,000 earlier and I came across this.

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Remembering the most notable instance of bad math, I decided to crunch the numbers to see if this case was similar.

Superman One Million leaps from the Earth to the JLA Watchtower on the Moon. Plastic Man says something [SOM] is traveling at one ten thousandth of the speed of light, and that it will be arriving in minutes. As the narrator states "Moments later", Superman One Million arrives on the Moon.

Speed of light = 299,792 km/s.

299,792 km/s / 10,000 = 29.9792 km/s.

Distance from Earth to Moon = 384,400 km.

Time = distance / speed.

384,400 km / 30 km/s = 12813.33 s.

12813.33 s = 3.55 h.

I suppose this means the jump should have taken him three and a half hours?

In case anyone wants to see the calculations done on a calculator:

I suppose. They don't think too carefully about that stuff though. Flash moves like trillions of times faster than the speed of light. That's insane.

Hehe people are so critical about maths in comics ?

Interesting. .

Sure.

Math is life

Comics have always been pseudo-scientific. This right here was just not thought through. Superman saving Lois would be another thing most writers don't think through. If she's falling and Superman catches her to a sudden halt...well it would be like landing on steel beams.

Maths* :P

Your calculations are terribly false.

@kramotz: I'm always looking forward to insight from fellow users. Care to show me where it's false?

@kramotz: correct them.

Interesting. But since when do writers care about the math lol.

Bad math is what led to the Battle Dominance of the Flash.

@darling_luna: if that's true I suck at life =(

@claymore1998: Me too hehe

I never made it past geometry :/ ...... mainly cause i had bad teachers

Went over the math. Nothing is wrong, I think he's just saying that.

If you want to see the calcs:

Maybe plastic isn't good at math.

Or who cares for that? Battle thread people.

@darling_luna: YaY we have one more thing in common.

I believe it was all the screens/tech surrounding him that sensed and alerted him of the incoming Superman.

Considering this was iirc, after Plastic Man had spent thousands of years in pieces at the bottom of an ocean, him not being good at math anymore is believable.

edit: I'm dumb and mixing up my stories.

@skit: As I already said:

I believe it was all the screens/tech surrounding him that sensed and alerted him of the incoming Superman.

Comics don't use "logic". Neved did, never will. Math blows anyway.

Yours truly, Frosty

@mysticmedivh: Yeah, bad math then.

plastic man is just bad at math

Writers don't care about accuracy in math and science silly.

He was interacting with the tech as he was saying that.

@mysticmedivh: then he ought to get his eyes checked