Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!hobbit From: hobbit@sunybcs.UUCP (Thomas Pellitieri) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: What's a warp? Message-ID: <750@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 10:39:31 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.750 Posted: Mon Oct 22 10:39:31 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Oct-84 00:50:29 EDT References: <221@wjvax.UUCP> <2941@mit-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: hobbit@gort.UUCP (Thomas Pellitieri) Organization: State University of New York @ Buffalo,NY Lines: 28 Summary: In article <2941@mit-eddie.UUCP> barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes: > >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. This is still really insufficient >for interstellar distances, but at least it sounds fast enough ... I think you are remembering wrong! I seem to recall in the "Star Fleet Technical Manual" a relativity graph which shows a warp/time ratio. According to that, warp N = 2^N times the speed of light. Then warp 8 is 256*c. This is still rather slow, but think! Warp 12 = 4,096*c! THAT'S FAST!! From the Headquarters of the Campaign for Real Time, -The Parker Hobbit -- decvax!sunybcs!hobbit or seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!hobbit "'Once Upon a Time' should be in the future Storytellers keep it in the past Dreaming's what improves us, Motivates and moves us, You won't be my first love, but you might be my last!"