porchrat
Honorary Master
This part makes no sense (it's all a weird word salad but this part is particularly weird):I wonder when we can expect this faster-than-light travel to be made publicly available...
It's odd that someone who had so much to say about advanced science and Alien technology couldn't even provide one bit of information that could actually be used practically in some kind of new invention that was not previously available to mankind. You would have thought that, given the so-called importance of her message, and the stakes involved, a few key bits of shared technology could have done wonders to give her story credibility.
Molecules in the atmosphere also move out of the way of regular aircraft. They just can't do it fast enough as speed increases because there are other air molecules that are in the way of those molecules and so on and so on. It's not just about the craft, it's about the density of the atmosphere the craft is moving through. How does anything mentioned in that quote change this in any way, especially when a craft is moving even faster than a jet or something making the problem even larger (more and more molecules needing to be "moved" the faster you move through the atmosphere)?and it moves without sound or the restriction of speed as the molecules of atmosphere are pushed aside instead of piling up in flight.
Keep in mind that when so many molecules are "pushed aside" they will create a pressure wave as they impact the rest of the atmosphere. This wave should be perceivable. At the speeds these muppets are talking about it might even be lethal.
This particular part isn't something based on some physical interaction we don't understand. We know how the atmosphere behaves when an object moves through it.
