Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!ptsfa!kmo From: kmo@ptsfa.UUCP (Ken Olsen) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: What's a warp? Message-ID: <310@ptsfa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 21:43:23 EDT Article-I.D.: ptsfa.310 Posted: Fri Oct 19 21:43:23 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 14:57:37 EDT References: <221@wjvax.UUCP> Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 27 > Heard somewhere that warp 1 is the speed of light. From > "star trek the motion sickness" this appears to be the case. > So what's warp 2? Certainly not merely 2 times lightspeed. > Galactic distances would be too great. Does anyone know the > relationship between warp numbers and velocity? > > Side note: We're probably talking psudovelocity, as they > never *actually* exceed the speed of light, but warp space > so distances get smaller. > -- > > "Trivia is important." Ron Christian > (syntax bug) Watkins-Johnson Co. > San Jose, Calif. > (...ios!wjvax!ron) Warp Factor 1 = the speed of light Warp Factor 3 = 24 times the speed of light Warp Factor 6 = 216 times the speed of light Warp Factor 8 = 512 times the speed of light Warp drive was first used in the year 2018. Ken Olsen {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!ptsfa!kmo "I've *got* to have thirty minutes!!" [read with brogue]