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Spoilers for S4 Ep11 of The Big Bang Theory.
At the end of this episode Sheldon imagins himself dresed as The Flash and runs from Pasadena, California to the Grand Canyon to scream his frustrations about his roomate Leonard Hofstadter changing the thermostat. (Scene in question) Using this website to get the distance between the 2 locations we see that Sheldon ran 595.83 km (370.23 mi). The timing from wheen he leaves his appartment to when he gets to the Grand Canyon is 19.666... seconds. (Timed from scene change on exit to the scene change with the Grand Canyon National Park sign.) Traveling 595.83 Km in 19.6 seconds is 30.297 km/s (18.825 mi/s) or 30,297.467 m/s. However the return trip is only 16.566... seconds. Which results in a speed of 35.967 km/s. or 35,967 m/s. And while it pales in comparrison to the prior mentioned speeds I will note that during the initial trip to the Grand Canyon Sheldon creates a Sonic Boom so we can know he reached a speed of at least 343 m/s. While this definitally doesn't count as a real feat for Sheldon it was fun to do the math and I wanted to share it incase it piqued any one elses interest.
At the end of this episode Sheldon imagins himself dresed as The Flash and runs from Pasadena, California to the Grand Canyon to scream his frustrations about his roomate Leonard Hofstadter changing the thermostat. (Scene in question) Using this website to get the distance between the 2 locations we see that Sheldon ran 595.83 km (370.23 mi). The timing from wheen he leaves his appartment to when he gets to the Grand Canyon is 19.666... seconds. (Timed from scene change on exit to the scene change with the Grand Canyon National Park sign.) Traveling 595.83 Km in 19.6 seconds is 30.297 km/s (18.825 mi/s) or 30,297.467 m/s. However the return trip is only 16.566... seconds. Which results in a speed of 35.967 km/s. or 35,967 m/s. And while it pales in comparrison to the prior mentioned speeds I will note that during the initial trip to the Grand Canyon Sheldon creates a Sonic Boom so we can know he reached a speed of at least 343 m/s. While this definitally doesn't count as a real feat for Sheldon it was fun to do the math and I wanted to share it incase it piqued any one elses interest.
