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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: What's a warp?
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 23:30:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 23:30:51 1984
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According to "The Star Fleet Handbook", and possibly also "The Making of
Star Trek", when you are going warp factor N you are traveling at N^2
times the speed of light.  So, if you go at the maximum safe velocity
(during the series) of warp 8 you are going 64*c.

Actually, this doesn't sound right for interstellar distances.  Maybe
I'm remembering wrong and it is N^3.  Then warp 8 would be 512*c.  This
is still really insufficient for interstellar distances, but at least it
sounds fast enough to satisfy many people.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
    ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
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