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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: ST III novalization, warp speed and reaching Andromeda
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Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 03:26:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  6 03:26:26 1984
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Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
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I read the novelization, and they explained how people were able to
reach Andromeda.  The new hyperwarp drive, which is what "Lt. Hunter's"
ship used, allows much greater speeds.  I think the book gave the new
formula, which may have been that at hyperwarp factor H you are
traveling c*H^5, as opposed to c*W^3 for warp factor W.  Thus, at
hyperwarp factor 8 you are traveling over 32,000 times the speed of
light.

Of course, this is again not really enough, just as we have already
determined that the warp formula is insufficient.  At the above
hyperwarp factor 8 it would take years to cross the Milky Way (100,000
light-years across), and generations to cross intergalactic distances.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
    ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
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