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Problem with Sakamotos speed calc

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I was recently going through Sakamoto Days profiles and noticed some problematic values so I'll try to explain what's wrong with them.
To start off I'll focus on this supersonic+ calc. There are 2 main issues with this calc, both of which are pretty easy to understand.

Issues with the calc:
The calc assumes Sakamoto runs across the entire train before the first person who saw him could react. Hence why the reaction speed (0.2 seconds) of an average human is used as a timeframe. But that's just wrong for multiple reasons.
  1. We see someone seemingly react to Sakamoto from the very start of his run.
  2. We don't see anyone looking down the entire length of the train. This means Sakamoto would have left the field of vision of the people either waaaayyyy before he reached the end of the train or waaaayyy after the start. Basically, they wouldn't percieve him not because he's too fast but because he's literally not in their line of sight during the entire feat.
  3. We don't see anyone by the end of his run, only at the start. This means that even if someone was staring down the train, we have no evidence they couldn't percieve him the entire time.
All 3 of these issues make the timeframe used in this calc unusable, debunking the whole calc.

Solution:
The calc isn't really used on Sakamotos profile anymore so we can just remove it from the verse page.

Agrees:
Disagrees:
 
TL;DR for the lazy people: there's no evidence that Sakamoto actually moved the entire distance in the timeframe the calc uses
 
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