Who Do You Trust, Einstein Or Fox News? Fox News Reports Jet That Can Fly ‘Twice the Speed Of Light’

Not overlooking the fact that the time dialtion when traveling at the sped of light means time stops for anyone inside the craft

That’s possibly what happened to a Faux Noose ‘investigator’ who confused the speed of sound with the speed of light and found out the MiG 25 was capable of not only twice the speed of sound but THREE times that when it entered service with the VVS way back in 1969.

Dear sweet Ghu, a high school student should be able to do better than that. (I learned about E=mc^2 in eighth grade: the teacher gave us the formula and the numbers, and had us calculate how much energy the sun puts out in a second. It’s a very big number.)

As for your poll the answer is clearly #5 – all of the above. And probably other dumbass stuff you had better things to do than add in as additional options!

It’s painfully obvious that the “stoopid” runs deep and wide at Fox. Didn’t ANYONE from the “news” department that fed the info. to that presenter, to the control room that surely had a copy of what she’d be reading on the air, to her and of course the couch crew “talent” have even a grade school science education? Isn’t there anyone still at Fox who worked on Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader handy to sit in the control room and keep the “talent” (or the newsreader for that matter) from making complete fools of themselves?

Hey, people make verbal gaffes sometimes. I get it. I’ve sure as hell made my share including when talking to groups in formal settings. Sometimes even when reading text of remarks or a speech I wrote! Worse, sometimes I’ve messed up in with VERY large audiences. It happens. You either realize it right away yourself or someone corrects you, you acknowledge it and maybe even crack a quick joke about it and move on. Some things are so blatantly obvious (like the impossibility of an aircraft moving at the speed of light) something in a normal, even semi-literate brain of even low intelligence causes an inner voice to ask a person “What? What the hell did I just say? OH SHIT! I gotta fix that like right now!” And of course you do. Unless you’re a Repubican.

Even when the text you’re reading is prepared by someone else and you just so happen to be tall, and blonde (and probably blue eyed) so Fox stands you up there to read “news” that common sense inner voice that remembers shit you learned back in GRADE school science (and history – like the Wright Brother’s first flight, Yeager breaking the SOUND barrier & what sonic booms are caused by, and yes the speed of light (without looking it up I’m willing to bet 186,000 miles per second and that it takes over eight minutes for light from the sun to reach the earth) and perhaps even an introduction to Einstein’s equation of Relativity – the famous E=mc(with the C squared). Even before fifth grade I knew what those letters represented. E (energy) equals m (mass) times the speed of light (which I stated is 186,000mph) squared.

How someone could stand there on a major network, having no doubt having had to graduate from college somewhere to have even gotten her job and not realize what was on that paper was a fuckup of someone confusing the speed of light with the speed of sound and having the presence of mind to say the correct thing astounds me. Same with the hosts on the couch – the not so talented “talent” proved once again how stoopid they truly are.

Not to mention the FACT that supersonic aircraft have been in existence since the 1950s. Not all of them were rocket powered planes that had to be dropped at altitude from “mother ships” either. And of course there’s the venerable SR-71 which all super-duper “real” American “patriots” you would think know some basic stuff about. Such as that it could operate at upwards of Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) and even higher although just how high it could fly and how fast it could go remains classified. Now, I’m getting into geek territory, as in stuff the typical person who has interest in high performance aircraft doesn’t know but Mach 1, the speed of sound varies according to altitude (and, some would say temperature but that factor is superfluous because temperature decreases with altitude until you get way the hell up higher than aircraft can fly) because the density of the air is greater at sea level. So in theory Mach three would be three times the roughly 760mph at sea level or at normal aircraft operating altitudes, say under 20k feet. But the reality of physics and our atmosphere means the air gets less dense as you go up and sound doesn’t travel as fast because of that. As a result, at the operating levels of the Blackbird (well upwards of 80,000 feet) Mach 3 is a considerably higher speed than 760 X 3 (2,280mph). At the normal operating altitude of the Blackbird Mach 3 is another (roughly) thousand miles per hour greater. So fifty years ago we had an aircraft that could operate at well over 80k feet at over 3200mph! (over Mach 3 at that altitude)

Okay, I’m getting to dense with all this.

The point is that any idiot, even some MAGA goober knows we have supersonic aircraft that can fly at Mach 2 or in some rare cases even Mach 3 (if for only relatively short amounts of time) that our military has been using for fifty years or more!

As for “pilotless” aircraft, well duh! What about Cruise Missiles which can pack some heavy duty ordnance and fly insane distances with navigation packages on board that let them fly nap of the earth through all manner of mountainous terrain? Those have been around since I was young! Oh, and have these idiots at Fox ever heard of DRONES? I’m not talking about these fucking things that people buy in stores and try to spy on other people with. No, I’m talking about the military stuff that can carry cameras, or heavier ones that can carry weapons like missiles. And as for larger aircraft and flying them remotely, have they ever heard of AUTOPILOT on commercial aircraft they’ve flown on?

The military long ago developed large(ish) target drones for testing air-to-air missiles – target drones that could be steered from the ground to add some realism in the form of evasive action. There’s a reason why remote operated high performance aircraft like fighter jets or strike jet (or joint “strike/fighters”) haven’t become a staple of military arsenals around the world. Shit goes wrong, even on routine flights or in the relatively routine point of just flying to where ordnance will be released. Having an actual pilot aboard is the best possible control against weapons being released/dropped due to technical problems or outright system breakdowns causing a crash in the wrong place – either killing a bunch of people who weren’t targets or providing enough aircraft pieces to allow an enemy to reverse engineer the technology. It’s an ugly thing to think about, but part of what led to the Cuban Missile Crisis was Francis Gary Powers getting shot down – and our not knowing both he and parts of his U-2 had been recovered. It killed a meeting between our President and the Soviet’s Premier and things escalated between our two countries just when it looked like we might be in a position to turn down the heat of the Cold War. I mention this because Power’s superiors assumed he’d follow his orders to the letter – if hit by a missile and the whole damned aircraft didn’t blow up at altitude then engage a self-destruct sequence to make sure the plane was blown to smithereens. Even at the cost of his own life. Powers didn’t do so and the rest is some shitty history.

High performance aircraft operating at the kinds of speeds and in thin atmospheres can go out of aerodynamic control so easily and quickly it can make your blood run cold. Regaining control of them is something those flying them train like hell for. And sometimes it’s just not possible. But ONE particular thing gives them a chance that someone sitting hundreds or even thousands of miles away doesn’t have – the ability to literally FEEL what’s going on with the aircraft, and to see it and react to it instantly, instead of the second (or more) it takes for telemetry to go up to a satellite and to the remote control pilot and back to the aircraft. That second(s), that precious extra time and instincts developed in countless hours of flight training and missions often makes the difference between the aircraft (and the person or persons inside) being saved or not.

Talk about “hypersonic” aircraft that can be remotely controlled and therefore don’t need a human being at the controls is just talk. And despite advances that have gotten us the ability to actually do it extremely reckless. Those kinds of aircraft are hugely expensive. Even for us, with a defense budget multiple times larger than the rest of the world combined. Alas, propaganda of the scary “look what THEY can do now” kind is Fox’s stock in trade. And technological dumbasses eat that shit up with a spoon.

Still, some stuff is so fucking basic and taught so early in school and comes up in the news so often that this latest multi-level gaffe from Fox is mind blowing. But that’s not the worst of it. They probably aren’t even embarrassed by it. Or, if they are personally because their family and friends give them a good ribbing about it they know their viewers won’t get how stupid it was. Or care.

The capability to put both together in a high performance military jet has been

You just can’t fix stupid. Certainly not this stupid.

I will ask again: why is Fox even allowed to broadcast?

What a belly laugh!

I laugh (& weep) at our mass arrogance. As Dylan sang, “their heads are full of big ideas, images, & distorted facts”. Everyone is an expert on God, yet know very little about where we are. At the speed of light, it would take 26,000 years to reach the center of the milky way, our galaxy. Scientists estimate there are 350 billion galaxies, with trillions of stars each, & the distances between them use the speed of light as a distance measurement. Hubble has shown there are billions, probably many more planets. So, our range of knowledge is an infinitesimal amount. So much for folks that can’t look at two crowd pictures & tell which one is full, & which is empty. Children lost in a fog. Add in that Twain accurately wrote it’s easier to fool people, than it is to convince them they’ve been fooled.

From the last broadcast as the jet hits 2x light speed:

“Oh my god. It’s full of stars.”

Another small step for man.