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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: What's a warp?
Message-ID: <432@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 15:19:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 15:19:28 1984
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Summary: Close, but no.

> Article <>, from steve@calmasd.UUCP (Stephen R. Cary)
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| As I remember reading my friend's Star Fleet Technical Manual...
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| 	apparent velocity = c raised to warp level
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Apparent velocity = (WF ** 3) * C
	where WF is the warp factor and C is the speed of light.
For WF < 1 (i.e. Sulu's `Warp point eight... point nine...' in STTMP),
the formula is simply WF * C.

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