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Originally posted by Dave:
Ok, think about this:

Captain Atom is in one spot when he gets bumped through time. He moves through time, you see, not through space when he absorbs too much energy.

As time passes, the Earth rotates. It also moves around the sun. The sun, for its part, moves up and down like a ride on a merry-go-round in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is rocketing away from the centre of the universe as a result of the big bang.

So, the point at which Captain Atom disappeared is very unlikly to still be in the Earth's atmosphere. In fact its likely to be in deep space somewhere outside the galaxy, depending upon how much time as passed.

So when Captain Atom pops up even an hour later, let alone a few months or 20 years, he's going to be nowhere near the location where he was last, because that location would have moved through space. Even jut a few minutes might mean he should pop up somewhere near Neptune.
He "leaped" twenty years in Caption Atom (second series) #1 and popped back in the exact same place.