How fast is Bones?

[Lucky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL1WqN1XKK0

Kirk falls at 1:25

Bones starts running to Kirk and Spock at about 1:33

Kirk is caught at 1:43

Bones appears at about 1:57

Doctor Leonard Henry "Bones" McCoy runs for about 24 seconds.

[2046]

Heh... good catch. I say site-to-site transport or unseen vehicle. Besides, I somehow doubt the fall from El Capitan is timed correctly, either.

[Lucky]

Heh... good catch. I say site-to-site transport or unseen vehicle. Besides, I somehow doubt the fall from El Capitan is timed correctly, either.

I was honestly trying to ask if anyone knew how far McCoy traveled because I'm not good at or comfortable scaling pictures, and I wanted to calculate McCoy's speed.

I assume McCoy's speed will likely turn out to be abnormally high for a real world human, but that wouldn't be the first time something like that happened in Star Trek. For example: in order to perform the shuttle maneuver called "Titan's Turn" you need superhuman reaction times.

How high would Kirk have to be to fall for that long?

Besides, what if you have a VS debate where you are using high end calculations for both sides? ^_^

[359]

For Kirk to have fallen for that long he would have been about 840 meters up, or about 50 meters from the top.

And as McCoy was holding the binocular things at about a twenty degree incline, he would be about 2,310 meters away for a speed of 96.3 m/s. For comparison, the fastest human record for running two kilometers is 7.02 m/s, running a 100 meter dash the record is 10.44 m/s.

[2046]

It's all starting to make sense now. McCoy is a Jedi. Or perhaps a Sith.





Don't be too proud of this technological monstrosity you help run, Mr. Data . . . the ability to have transporter and holodeck mishaps is insignificant next to the power of the Force!

[Mith]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL1WqN1XKK0

Kirk falls at 1:25

Bones starts running to Kirk and Spock at about 1:33

Kirk is caught at 1:43

Bones appears at about 1:57

Doctor Leonard Henry "Bones" McCoy runs for about 24 seconds.

Presumably about as fast as your average human, maybe a bit faster if he's a track runner or something.

Seriously, it was just a mistake they made in production.

[359]

Seriously, it was just a mistake they made in production.

It certainly is a mistake/omission/lack of caring, but an amusing one.

Not to mention a good exercise in basic kinimatics.

[Lucky]

Presumably about as fast as your average human, maybe a bit faster if he's a track runner or something.

Seriously, it was just a mistake they made in production.

You use something like this to mock those who insist that visuals should always trump dialog.

On a less serious note:
What's to say that baseline human in the 23/24 century is the same as baseline human in the real world? Titan's turn seems to require superhuman reflexes and both Q and the Travel talk of humans as being on the verge of something big.