"So you have no idea how they can travel faster over long distances in empty space?" Even if you traveled in time and arrived at that distant planet, we would still need those millions of years to get there."
"There is no way to carry out that type of acceleration with the physical laws that we know and our technology, but I agree that your theory is the most viable; if you manage to discover the phenomenon, we could try to replicate it, and once we had the technology recalculate, the only thing would be that I am already there, and that must mean that we will achieve something, and that my trip would make sense.
Although everything they heard was incredible, it really had little practical application at the moment. Even the very fact of losing Pandora on a trip to the past to travel to the other side of the universe was a tactical absurdity. Admiral Isis did not seem very happy with the development of the conversation.