I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times?
Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL. His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this. Which is nonsensical.
You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Air traffic control people, engineers, scientists can if it is their job.
They use formulas provided by NASA.
Wrong. Why the NASA obsession?
How am I wrong?
Obvious troll is obvious.
The NASA formula that he speaks of is d/r=t, you know Distance divided by Rate equals Time.
Thats right, he is somehow trying to say NASA has altered reality and thats why only trained pilots can possibly figure out how big a distance is.
And before you post your vague rhetorical response jroa, like any basic middle school algebra equation any of those three can be the variable. If I know the speed of the plane and the time it took me to get somewhere, I can figure out the distance.
lol, I suppose that you have never heard of Einstein's theory of relativity.
Wait, back up.
I am going to assume you are speaking of the Special Theory of Relativity and not the General one, so I'll go from there.
Are you saying that in 1905, about fifty years before NASA was formed, and not even in America, NASA made up this formula?
OR, are you saying that because of the planes speed the time it traveled will be so significantly altered that the distance will be off?
If the first, then obvious troll is also not even trying troll.
If the second, then you admit that the theory is valid, and then me and you can sit down and actually crunch the numbers right here, right now on how much of a time dilation there would be at 570 mph.
Though I assume your response will be something along the lines of "what do you think I think?"