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We would be so screwed if this was not true
by ngoede 11y ago
We would be so screwed if this was not true
- mcguire 11y agoOn the other hand, the plane could fly faster by burning the air out of the way. ;-)
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoOr see them approach from a greater distance!
- m_mueller 11y agoIsn't that pretty much what a Ramjet is doing?
- mcguire 11y agoApparently no one who knows what they'd be talking about has seen this, so I'll have to take a pass. A ramjet is basically a tube open at both ends and moving very quickly so that air enters one end and leaves out the other. Because of the speed of the air moving through it and the shape of the tube, the air is compressed in the tube and something sprays fuel into the compressed air, which ignites and produces higher-velocity air moving out the end of the tube. It's a jet engine, although normal jets have to have elaborate turbine-compressor thingys to do the air compression. The ionizing radiation thing is a goofy UFOs-are-space-travellers thing, where the UFO sprays ionizing radiation in front of itself, which heats and disperses the air in front of it, allowing the UFO to travel faster. Or something. It's goofy.