Part Of The Kents Budget Goes Towards...

[superfangirl1]

Repairing Clark's Super boy costume. I'll bet.

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[metadronos]

Clark: "Pa, may I please have a raise in allowance so I can research and develop a friction-and-flame resistant uniform?"

Jonathan: "Money doesn't grow on trees, boy. Couldn't you, I don't know, fly a bit slower? How often you gonna need to circle the globe?"

Clark: "..."

Jonathan: "...How much do you need."

[bradygirl_12]

Lol! Priceless! ☺️

[agent8]

my back of the envelope math gives me this.
24 min 25 seconds = 1465 seconds to fly around the Earth
Wikipedia tells me the Earth is 40,075 km (24,901 miles) in circumference at the equator.
So he was moving at 27.35 km/sec (or 16.99 miles/sec). Which is 98,460km/hr (or 61,164 mph). Speed of sound is 1235 kph (or 767 mph).
So he was doing mach 79.7.
Lotta broken windows in his wake I'm betting.

[bruinsfan]

So he was traveling a little over three times the ISS's orbital velocity? And probably applying as much force to keep his path curved as to go that speed in the first place, as it's well over escape velocity.

[super_fly]

Isn't it for this exact reason they went with "Ma Kent sewed a costume out of the blankets he was found wrapped in when he was sent to earth in the rocket?" Indestructible materials from an advanced civilization so on.

[cainofdreaming]

Nice of them to include indestructible thread in the rocket too, common Earth thread probably wouldn't hold the costume together.

[agent8]

also begs the question of what she used as a needle.

[fourds]

The explanation I've always seen (maybe a fan rationalization) is that she was less sewing it and more knitting it, so that no additional thread was needed and there was no need to penetrate the fabric. It doesn't look like most knit items do because of different properties of the alien material (waves hands rapidly).

[superfangirl1]

Clark later calculates his speed later in comic.



That is pretty fast.

[super_fly]

I'm also certain one of the explanations was that Superman has a protective field around his body that protects his clothes and anyone he's holding onto from the elements and air friction.

[fourds]

That's more post-Crisis. Pre-Crisis, they just went with "everything from Krypton that didn't turn into kryptonite is invulnerable" and didn't address things like what happened to things or people he was carrying.