Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34954086-20120922085545/@comment-4928331-20121014012231

But there's also the possibility that Metropolis, being Superman's base of operations (and therefore a major hive of activity for evildoers), is a hub, even if Green Arrow's cache in Star City isn't. :P

I don't think Mal used the Zeta network. He's just realized his girl is now too busy to go out with him. He would probably go on a one hour bike ride to clear his mind. He would probably be travelling quite fast, at the speed limit or maybe even beyond it. He's on a motorcycle - if the gap between cars are big enough, he would be able to weave in and out of traffic, so he won't be as constrained as Mapquest might think.

Plus he isn't in the habit of using the Zeta network - remember he rode his bike into the Cave, giving the restrained Impulse a way out - when he could have just Zeta'd in. My best guess is Ivy Town is a part of the Boston/Cambridge cluster of higher-education institutions, and is located in Massachusetts. The distance between Boston and Rhode Island, according to Mapquest, is 77.4 miles via I-295-S, with an estimated travel time of 1 hour 26 minutes.

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Since I'm bored, can I get your speculation on how sorcery works, broken down in Physics-talk? Abra Kadabra uses adaptive micro-opto-electronics combined with phase shifting to cloak himself from view, after all. How might backwards incantation harnass this magical power, which presumably violates the law of conservation of energy?