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Thanks to this amazing photograph, no doubt shot by a bystander using a cell phone in which the sound effect of steel wheels skidding on rails – but not the rumpling or tearing of metal - is also captured (remarkable technology, especially considering the fact that Superman’s blunt approach to stopping the train doesn’t involve braking the wheels), we see a steroidal Superman stopping a train with most of the resistance coming from the friction of his right foot against the gravel railroad bed. The other leg appears to be simply providing him with a heroic profile.
Thinking...OK, there's probably 15-20 square inches of contact between his size 12 (?) foot and the gravel, let’s be generous and say 20 sq. in., all managing to stop a runaway locomotive and train weighing hundreds (thousands?) of tons traveling at what? Let's say 70 MPH? And somehow, incomprehensibly, making it say “Skreeeeeeeech”?
Cahaya, do the math. I say that even Superman's foot gets ground down up to his hip before the train is finally stopped. There will also be a very clean but narrow trench several miles long lined with super flesh and bone. I also see a lot of lower back pain for ole Supes in his retirement as well as shortened forearms.
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