Talk:Tangent

When the engines shut off, they're going "a million miles an hour".

Taking that as a given, as opposed to 400 million miles an hour, it should take 400 hours to reach Jupiter. Yet they get there in what... 30-60 minutes? At 18-something Zulu, which is 11 am in Colorado (it was daylight in Colorado when the flight took off).

OTOH, if they ARE going fast enough to reach Jupiter in half an hour - which is FTL!! - they're going to pass it so fast, they won't see it. Yet after the missile burns prove ineffective, Teal'c and O'Neill are taking a leisurely, orbit-speed-like pass over the planet more than half an hour later.

Add to that, the transmission lag would be increasing exponentially even if they're going fast enough to reach Jupiter in one day!

I also assume that Jacob/Selmak's ship has the ability to use carrier wave radio frequencies, or he could tool it to do so.

A strange set of depictions in this episode! GCapp1959 (talk) (Contribs) 03:18, April 6, 2011 (UTC)