During Wednesday morning’s edition of “Fox & Friends,” host Jillian Mele reported that Russia now has a fighter jet that can fly at “nearly twice the speed of light.”
According to Mele:
“The jet features stealth characteristics and the ability to cruise at supersonic speeds. The new aircraft is smaller than other Russian fighter jets but can fly at a speed of almost twice the speed of light.
“The new design can also be converted into an unpiloted version.”
Co-host Steve Doocy then chimed in:
“Unpiloted. so you would control it by a computer or a person running it just like a video game.”
Mele:
“That boggles my mind.”
It boggles her mind? That would require that she actually have a mind instead of just being a paid news reader who reiterates whatever’s on the teleprompter.
As Albert Einstein explained with his theory of relativity, nothing can travel at a speed that’s faster than the speed of light.
Space.com explains Einstein’s thinking on the subject of traveling faster than light:
“Even using the most precise measurements possible, the speed of light remains the same for an observer standing still on the face of the Earth as it does for one traveling in a supersonic jet above its surface. Similarly, even though Earth is orbiting the sun, which is itself moving around the Milky Way, which is a galaxy traveling through space, the measured speed of light coming from our sun would be the same whether one stood inside or outside of the galaxy to calculate it. Einstein calculated that the speed of light doesn’t vary with time or place.”
Even worse for Mele is that Fox itself totally disproves what she said, with their website reporting:
“The prospective warplane, marketed under the project name Checkmate, has one engine and is designed to be smaller and cheaper than Russia’s latest Su-57 two-engine stealth fighter, also built by Sukhoi. It can fly at a speed of 1.8-2 times the speed of sound, has a range of 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) and a payload of 7,400 kilograms (16,300 pounds), the jet’s makers said.”
Later today, perhaps Jillian Mele will tell us that gravity isn’t real and Sir Isaac Newton was wrong.
