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Otis P Jivefunk
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Originally posted by aslate: What i actually wondered was why crashing through the pirate ship wasn't enough to slow him down to within their speed. Maybe the Pirate ship had termites...
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Teral
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A nit for the "we can't catch up with him, bacause he travels faster than our top-speed": the engine of a spaceship doesn't provide velocity, it provides acceleration. As long as a spaceship has fuel, it can accelerate ad infinitum, there's no upper limit (apart from C ofcourse) to it's speed. The PE ship can accelerate, Bender can't. So Leela and Fry should be able to catch up with Bender. Granted it might take a while, but eventually they'll get there.
Then again I haven't had a physics lesson in 7 years, so I might have left something out.
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Action Jacktion
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Yes, as long as they have fuel and engines, there should be no limit besides the speed of light. But maybe the crew physically couldn't handle the acceleration, and that's why they couldn't go any faster.
As for the original question, maybe the Galaxy Being was able to throw Bender at a much higher speed than the ship can go, assuming Bender can handle such acceleration. Or maybe he had traveled so far that he'd looped back around the universe and was close to Earth again.
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User_names_suck
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Well Its God Obviously physics doesn't really have to Matter when God is involved, although it sort of isn't God but whatever
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Nixorbo
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Originally posted by Ekarderif: How did God toss Bender back onto Earth in a matter of seconds? Didn't you just answer your own question? He's God. God - The uberWizard.
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Helpy McHelphelp
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Farnsworth said it could travel between galaxies in mere hours thanks to the increase of the speed of light. It still travel below light speed, even with it 200% fuel efficiency. Even if the engines would move the Universe rather than the ship, it would still create an acceleration of the Universe (and everything in it, including Bender) directed opposite of the way the nose is pointing. Meaning they would catch up with Bender. Originally posted by Action Jacktion: Yes, as long as they have fuel and engines, there should be no limit besides the speed of light. But maybe the crew physically couldn't handle the acceleration, and that's why they couldn't go any faster. Even at a comfortable acceleration of 1g, the ship would still increase it's speed and gain on Bender.
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Jish
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The God nubeula couldn't have been that close to earth, because the monks had been searching for God for what, hundreds of years? I'd imagine that they would start looking in the areas closest to Earth.
On the other hand, it couldn't have been terribly far away, because in the time it took Fry to spin the control and leave, the signal reached God and He threw Bender back.
Either way, God could have created a wormhole or something that, when Bender went through it, came out close to Earth.
Crap, there's yet another problem! God didn't even know where Earth was. Any way you look at it, it's not going to make sence.
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Helpy McHelphelp
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"God" didn't know which way Earth was, neither did Bender. But when Fry's radio-signal reached them "God" was able to pinpoint it's place of origination, and hurled Bender in that general direction.
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Dr. Morberg
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That makes sense.
However, I do find it funny that in an episode where Bender can look down upon his chest, we're arguing about how he got back to Earth.
And as for how he went directly towards Fry and Leela with exact accuracy, it was by a wide margin the least likely thing that has ever happened. Maybe it was just a lucky throw.
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Helpy McHelphelp
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Einstein: "God doesn't play dice!" I like Nosebleed's theory. Every species have a name for a planet, but not necessarily the same name. In fact for most species Earth would probably be called something entirely different like "Sqahytrigquxz" or "Pilonbop", maybe Sol III if they're in a nice mood.
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german fry
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you cant come to a conclusion, for the physics of futurama is 1000 years ahead. So try to explain the html code of this site to uhm napoleon.
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fryfriends
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He is supposed to be god of course he can do anything he wants.
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