Russians develop a jet that can travel almost "twice the speed of light":

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The portion of the video in Post #1 shows the two people on the right with their eyes close, maybe while they are blinking . . . like they could be talking in their sleep, so they could make such a mistake.

May be they just are not educated much in science. I would say twice the speed on light is technologically not possible for humans > not physically, not economically because of the cost of research, and humans would not be able to cooperate well enough with each other. Plus, accelerating too fast could kill the pilot; how long might it take, then, to reach twice the speed of light, without killing the pilot during the acceleration? Could that take longer than the lifespan of a human??

After all, there are limits to how fast a pilot is able to adjust to changes in speed and direction. The technology in the plane might be able to do some pretty fancy maneuvers, but in order to keep the pilot alive and functional, the technology would need to not change speed or direction too quickly.

Also, if a plane could move at twice the speed of light, would ground-sent radio messages be able to catch up with the plane, in time for those messages to have their effect in time? Do radio messages travel faster or slower than light? Have fun.

Plus, there could be momentum issues, so that a really high-speed jet might become too predictable at higher speeds. Or, in a dogfight maybe a slow plane could outmaneuver a very fast-moving jet. Plus, in a split second, how many times would it be able to fly around the earth? Its inertia at such a speed would take it off into space, I would say, before it could get very far for even one pass attempt around the earth.

But we can think it :)
 
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Yeah, right at the start - 'supersonic speed'.

[Does anybody still take fox News seriously? We have a start-up channel, GBN (for Great Britain News?) and it has begun badly and got much worse.]
Well of course it is super sonic. The speed of light is faster than the speed of sound, so twice that speed would be even more super sonic!:p

And during the Trump years if we did not laugh we would cry. It is nice to see FOX News continue the tradition of giving us something to laugh at.
 
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They are not so great on avaition history either. Mach 2 was achieved in the early 1960s! So a jet going that fast is really not all that impressive.

I was thinking the same thing, at least warp 1.1 or what ever it is would make sense as that WOULD be a new speed heh
 
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They must have reverse engineered the warp drive from all of those crashed UFOs everyone is talking about.

Well, if he ends up going forward into the past he can at least land on those British runways that Trump said the revolutionaries took over in 1780.

Hmm. Maybe it was the Russians that told Trump about them. More to this than meets the eye methinks!
 
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I suspect is it misspoken, not an actual claim. A Freudian slip. Because the phrase speed of light and speed of sound are so commonly use it is not unthinkable to make that mistake.

No human capable of coherent speech alive today didn't have one of these Freudian slips

Russia unveils new fighter plane that can hit speeds two times faster than sound

I don't understand how that works in the cabin of a jet flying that fast.....

Can the pilot and copilot talk to each other?
 
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I once parachuted out of a plane going three times the speed of light... So cool.
And you landed here. Report to sick bay for debriefing, please.
 
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