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Garfield ftl

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Light travels 1 foot in a nano second hes roughly a foot from his box so he moves that distance before the lights turn off.
 

TL;DR the feat is unreliable due to the number of assumptions that need to be made.
Well, light travels a foot in about a nanosecond - so if you’re (say) 10 feet from the light - then 10 nanoseconds elapse between light leaving the lamp and it arriving at your eyes.

when you “switch on” the light - the electricity flows through the light switch to the light bulb at the speed of light…so if there is 20 feet of wiring between the switch and the light - then there will be a roughly 30 nanosecond delay between switching the switch and seeing the light. The speed of light in copper wires is slower than “The Speed Of Light” - so that adds a bit more time.

Its still relativistic at the low without assumptions.
 
You forgot about the cooling time of lighting filament (since this is a 10 year old comic the house likely uses the older style of filament lightbulbs) which takes anywhere from ten milliseconds to a full second, and as long as the filament is still glowing it emits light. This would lower the calculated speed significantly—to subsonic+ at best.
 
There was a delay as soon as he turned off the light, I have a hard time believing this is FTL
 
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