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From: marc@wlcrjs.UUCP (Marc Lavine)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: What's a warp?
Message-ID: <392@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 04:07:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.392
Posted: Sat Oct 20 04:07:09 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 14:33:58 EDT
References: <221@wjvax.UUCP> <387@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Reply-To: marc@wlcrjs.UUCP (Marc Lavine)
Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL
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Summary: 

>The square of the warp number is the number of times the speed of light they
>are supposed to be traveling at.  Therefore, warp 2 is 4 times the speed of
>light, and warp 8 would be 64 times the speed of light.

Sorry about that posting.  I wrote that before I checked that manual, and I
wasn't able to cancel the article due to a problem on this machine.  See the
correct article for the answer.
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