... Nah.

Movies: where reality is as selective and picky as a PC nerd.

Explosions travel many times the speed of sound.

The minimum for an explosion is about 2000 m/s and the speed of sound is 340.29 m/s

True, but the shock wave right at detonation moves out faster then the explosion itself. So it is still a good question giving his prox.

The shock wave is the explosion, it moves at the same speed of minimum 2000 m/s (I don't know the maximum), the actual fireball doesn't move at the speed of sound...unless you're dealing Nuke because that explosion moves faster than the speed of sound for many kilometers.

I thought the shockwave was what he was talking about, not the fireball. The fire of course moves slower. Been documented on high speed cam.

Ah, well there you are :P

*The more you know*

Do doo doo dooo.

Hypnotic....dancing...otter... @_@

Where did that even come from, anyway? I'll bet it's from some PBS show...

I honestly don't know. I like to think it's from a European kids show.

Harrison Ford survived a nuclear bomb explosion by hiding in a fridge. :D

But dude, he's HARRISON FORD! He'll outlive all of us!

Hahaha, i lolled at that. XD

Shock waves travel faster than sound. That's the difference between shock waves and sound waves.

I still want to know how the aircraft wing slammed into him, broke, but didn't even leave him sore the next morning! (let alone dent the suit)

BECAUSE GOD SAYS SO! :D

why do u ask something like this xD

We call this Fridge Logic

if he went supersonic, then he's already going faster than the speed of sound, right?

i mean.
granted, It's still not nearly enough to outrun the shockwave, unless he actually is awesome.

which he JUST MAY BE.

also.
maybe he just managed to be somewhere where he MISSED the shockwave =O

COMIC BOOK LOGIC.

Of course not.

It's a STARK INDUSTRIES missile. It explodes at Mach 10.

wait a second... if he went supersonic facing forewards the blood would be pushed away from his head to his feet..... he woulda blacked out.. alf the reason pilots dont black out is because the chairs are designed to make the blood spread evenly under the force..

It's a very snug suit.

hes a comic book superhero so the lows of fisics go right out the window

I'm pretty sure if you could harness 3 GJ/sec of energy from something smaller than your chest, and rout that current using a wire smaller than your arm, then I'm fairly confident that you could easily spit in the face of conventional physics one more time for G forces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E I wonder if extreme diamagnetism could help soften the trauma of g-forces?