travel through space?

[Chrisplosion]

right now im watching *through the wormhole, are we alone?*

no

 

[Oddball]

Your jet theory simply won't work. Confucius said it best: "Tie two birds together and, 'tho they have four wings, they cannot fly"

BTW, it doesn't take much to break the sound barrier. There are ground vehicles that have that ability today. I believe you're thinking of the speed of light (186,000 miles per second)

 

[livebearerfreak]

well then that blows! how fast does a space shuttle go??

 

[livebearerfreak]

Your jet theory simply won't work. Confucius said it best: "Tie two birds together and, 'tho they have four wings, they cannot fly"

BTW, it doesn't take much to break the sound barrier. There are ground vehicles that have that ability today. I believe you're thinking of the speed of light (186,000 miles per second)

well if we rebuild the fastest jet engines togther ( not combined but take like 3 or 4 diff fastest engines and build them togther ) wouldnt we be able to beat the speed of light?

 

[Oddball]

Taking 4 engines that can achieve mach 5 will in no way give you an airframe that can travel mach 20. The 4 engines will simply fly mach 5 more efficiently.

 

[livebearerfreak]

right now the fastest jet is X-47 that can achive mach 9.8

 

[Oddball]

That's great. I just used mach 5 as an arbitrary number. Therefore, if you take 4 engines that can achieve mach 9.8, you won't get an airframe that can achieve mach 39.2. You'll have 4 engines that can fly mach 9.8 with less effort.

 

[dogofwar]

Dude, what happened to looking for that JOB???

 

[Chrisplosion]

You duct tape 4 cars together that can achieve 100mph doesn't mean they can now go 400mph.

 

[dogofwar]

...or duct tape 3 people together... say Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt and FloJo...and do the 100m in like 3 seconds...

Matt