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How does Spider-Man manage to hold on to his webs?
When Spider-Man web slings across town, the general procedure is shoot web, hold it, swing, airtime, repeat. For good grip, the end of the web line he's holding should be well below the center of his ...
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When a speedster runs does everything become colder? [closed]
So I was watching X-Men: Days of Future Past. In the prison break scene when Quicksilver deviates all the bullets, he first tastes whatever they were cooking in the kitchen. So it got me thinking, if ...
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How does Nightcrawler's teleportation ability work during high-speed movement?
From a physics standpoint, it is a well-known fact that a moving object will only have its speed changed if another force is applied to it. This is called inertia. There are more implications to this, ...
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Why doesn't the Iron Man suit heat up when firing or flying at high speeds?
When Tony fires blasts or flies at very high speeds, why does his armour not heat up? When he lifts someone and flies with them, like in the picture below, why does it not cause any damage to Tony, as ...
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Could Ant-Man's suit create a black hole?
The theory of general relativity published by Albert Einstein in 1915 states that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole.
Black holes are therefore nothing more than an ...
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Has X-Men ever offered an in-universe explanation for how the "impossible" arises from a biological explanation?
First, let me say, I know people are going to say "It's just a comic/movie franchise, you have to suspend disbelief". Please bear with me.
X-Men is a little different than other franchises....
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What power enables Quicksilver to move people at super-speed without killing them? [duplicate]
I just watched X-Men Apocalypse, and there's an awesome scene of quicksilver clearing everyone out of an exploding building, but I want to know why he isn't ripping people's skeletons right out of ...
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How does mass conservation work in the MCU Ant-Man movie?
In Ant-Man, it's (briefly) explained that the Pym particle reduces the distance between molecules, allowing a person to shrink while retaining his mass and strength.
Much of the movie is consistent ...
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How can Wolverine cut through heavy moving objects without getting knocked down?
Wolverine has claws to cut anything, but if I had a knife, even one made out of adamantium, and tried to hold it against a car coming towards me, or a moving airplane, my arm wouldn't be strong enough ...
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What is Iron Man's flight range and max air speed?
In the Iron Man movie Tony flies the Iron Man armour from Miami to Afghanistan, roughly 7800 miles.
What is the maximum range of the Iron Man armour?
What sort of speed does the armour cruise at?
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What are the limits of Magneto's magnetic field?
Is there any source about the strongest magnetic field Magneto can generate?
Currently the strongest magnetic fields in continuous use (a few Tesla, maybe up to around 10 Tesla) are strong enough to ...
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Why does Captain America's Shield make noise?
If the shield doesn't vibrate, how could it produce sound? This would necessitate something vibrating to move the air.
The only thing that I can think of that is plausible, is that vibranium is able ...
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Can Captain America's Shield Produce 0K Temperatures?
If Captain America's shield can absorb/deaden any vibrations, does this mean that it can create 0 Kelvin temperatures? Since heat is movement/vibration of atoms, then his shield would be covered in ...
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How does Captain America's shield work?
Captain America is able to throw his circular shield and have it return it to him like a boomerang.
Is this even possible according to physics (especially considering the ranges at which he uses the ...
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