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From: marc@wlcrjs.UUCP (Marc Lavine)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: What's a warp?
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Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 03:58:32 EDT
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The cube of the warp number is the number of times the speed of light they
are supposed to be traveling at.  Therefore, warp 2 is 8 times the speed of
light, and warp 8 would be 512 times the speed of light.
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			Marc Lavine
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