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September 4

missing recognition ceremony footage

During the 2008 VISA Championships, the 1988 U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnastics Team was recognized. The only problem is, I can't find any of that footage on YouTube. Could someone help me, please? Thank you.2604:2000:7113:9D00:CC0C:6CC8:68A3:A180 (talk) 04:31, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Krypton (TV series) - continuity error

Superman is supposed to derive his great strength from the huge gravity on Krypton, right? So how come Adam Strange is not squashed flat and unable to move when he goes there? SpinningSpark 12:48, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See this; since 1961, the official story has been that it's due to Earth's yellow sun. Matt Deres (talk) 14:30, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's still the same problem. Strange has gone from a yellow sun system to a red sun system where Superman is weaker. The same should happen to him. Any change-of-planet explanation fails in this storyline. SpinningSpark 14:34, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on noticing that fiction is often illogical. However, it does not hold that just because yellow light helps Superman that red light harms other beings. Even given the "loose" rules applied to comic books, I'm not sure why you'd think that. It's not canon, but in Kingdom Come it's stated that the long term exposure to yellow light over decades has gradually built up Supes' powers and reduced his vulnerability to kryptonite, suggesting that it's not an instantaneous thing in any case. Matt Deres (talk) 14:44, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Given that we're talking about a guy who can fly seemingly just by willing it, all bets are off on any other logical matters. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:33, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Superman also has some sort of undocumented magic touch. Example: If Superman flies around the Earth repeatedly, time reverses. However, the ISS is flying around the Earth at nearly 20,000 mph. It has more mass than Superman, but has no apparent affect on time. So, it is obvious that Superman has special time-changing qualities as well as the ability to withstand the vacuum of space. 216.59.42.36 (talk) 13:49, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not exactly. He's flying faster than the speed of light, and going backwards in time. There's a notion (from the comics) that by flying clockwise at super-light speed he goes in one direction of time, and by flying counterclockwise, he goes in the other direction. That is, one way he goes backward in time, the other way he fast-forwards in time. I just don't recall which is which. But he did that in the first movie, switching from one to the other in mid-flight. As to the ISS, theoretically their clock could get out of sync with the earth's clock eventually, but it would probably take a long time before it was noticeable. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:55, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It would take about 72 years to be out of sync by 1 second, according to time dilation (it lags 0.007 seconds behind time on the surface after six months). Adam Bishop (talk) 20:23, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I recall something from a Guinness Book of World Records stating that the Apollo astronauts in portions of their journey flew at a fairly high rate of speed to and from, and that their local clocks slowed down by a tiny fraction of a second compared with the earth clock, hence theoretically they had worked extra time. The McWhirters, in their usual dryly humorous way, said that "no formal overtime claim had been lodged." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:02, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for titles of articles

Looking to resolve "citation lacking title" errors for the Wikiproject Jazz Cleanup Listing.

1) Title of article from journal Tylko Rock, October 1992, p.17, by Wiesław Weiss for Apostrophe (')
2) Title of article from journal Jazz Education Journal, vol 39, page xxxii, 2007, published by International Association for Jazz Education for Berkeley Jazz Festival
3) Title of article from journal Jazz Education Journal, vol 39, number 1–3, 98, 105, 2006, published by International Association for Jazz Education for California Jazz Conservatory
4) Title of article from magazine Mojo, January 2010, by Andrew Male, for Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First

Thank you.
Vmavanti (talk) 22:21, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Try Jazz Educators Journal (emphasis mine) -- see:[1] -- For 2) & 3), it appears to be the right magazine, volume and year, but I can't make heads or tails of the pages etc. 107.15.157.44 (talk) 05:35, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has a group called "Resource Exchange", located at WP:REX, that specializes in digging up sources such as this. People who patrol that page may be able to help. --Jayron 32 16:01, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I'll try there.
Vmavanti (talk) 16:51, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]