"Do you think there's an issue with our transmitter, or do you think the trouble is that they don't understand?" Two very different problems, but Ben had a possible solution for both. Albeit, perhaps an unconventional one.
It was interesting, at least, that where they were in this 'scenario' felt so familiar. While the ship might be different and the mechanics a bit foreign, Obi-Wan had been a pilot for a very long time. Space travel, and the freedom that it provided was something that he'd understood since he was a child. Even though they were still very much captives of the scientists, being out in this wide open galaxy made that reality seem a little more distant.