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From: tom@utcsrgv.UUCP (Tom Nadas)
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Subject: Re: What's a Warp
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 09:02:53 EDT
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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.