The Muppets: Gonzo gets spaced out with lightning and flies through the cosmos
Gonzo reacts to interstellar lightning
In Muppets from Space, Gonzo gets hit by some lightning traveling through space at stupidly fast speeds. This is backed by the novelization, which says:
it zigs between about 4 stars onscreen before hitting Gonzo in the movie
The average distance between two stars in the Milky Way is about 5 light years, so with three it would be 15 light years or 1.419105e+17 meters
Using the timeframe from the movie, eyeballing it happens in about 3 seconds so…
4.730e+16 m/s / 1.578e+8c (MFTL+)
Using FPS, it takes 70 frames
With 30 FPS, 2.333 seconds
6.083e+16 m/s / 2.029e+8c (MFTL+)
With 24 fps, 2.917 seconds
4.865e+16 m/s m/s / 1.623e+8c (MFTL+)
We can get this higher since the novelization doesn't specify just how many stars Gonzo saw. The human eye—or in this case, alien-Muppet eye—can see about 2000 stars at any given distance but Gonzo was looking at his telescope when he originally saw the lightning bolt so let’s say it was 500. We'll also use a minute and thirty seconds just in case it took longer than in the movie.
10 stars, which would be 45 light years and 4.257315e+17 meters
In one minute
7.096e+15 m/s / 2.367e+7c (MFTL+)
In thirty seconds
1.419e+16 m/s / 4.733e+7c (MFTL+)
2.917 seconds
1.459e+17 m/s / 4.867e+8c (MFTL+)
50 stars, which would be 245 light years and 2.317872e+18 meters
In one minute
3.863e+16 m/s / 1.289e+8c (MFTL+)
In thirty seconds
7.726e+16 m/s / 2.577e+8c (MFTL+)
2.917 seconds
7.946e+17 m/s / 2.650e+9c (MFTL+)
100 stars, which would be 495 light years and 4.683047e+18 meters
In one minute
7.805e+16 m/s / 2.603e+8c (MFTL+)
In thirty seconds
1.561e+17 m/s / 5.207e+8c (MFTL+)
2.917 seconds
1.605e+18 m/s / 5.354e+9c (MFTL+)
500 stars, which would be 2,495 light years and 2.360445e+19 meters
In one minute
3.934e+17 m/s / 1.312e+9c (MFTL+)
In thirty seconds
7.868e+17 m/s / 2.624e+9c (MFTL+)
2.917 seconds
8.092e+18 m/s / 2.699e+10c (MFTL+)
Gonzo becomes a shining star
The star on the far left is 20 pixels tall, and the average diameter of a star is 1391000 km
The star moves 138 pixels while Gonzo is flying, which would be 9,597,900 km and 9,597,900,000 m
Just eyeballing it, it takes Gonzo 3 seconds to move this far, soo…
He’d have been moving at 3.199e+9 m/s / 10.67c (FTL+)
Using FPS, Gonzo does this in 94 frames
With 30 frames, 3.133 seconds
3.063e+9 m/s / 10.22c (FTL+)
With 24 frames, 3.917 seconds
2.450e+9 m/s / 8.17c (FTL)
This likely is higher since I’m not used to doing stellar feats like this, but FTL Muppets is consistent!
