Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!tom From: tom@utcsrgv.UUCP (Tom Nadas) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: What's a Warp Message-ID: <115@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 09:02:53 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.115 Posted: Fri Oct 19 09:02:53 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 09:42:14 EDT References: <559@nmtvax.UUCP>, <2913@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 5 The cube of the warp factor number = the multiple of the speed of light. Warp 2 is 8c, warp 3 is 27c, maximum safe cruising speeed warp 6 is 256c, emergency speed warp 8 is 512 c. However, even those speeds are too low for the distances the Enterprise was supposed to have covered.