Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: ST III novalization, warp speed and reaching Andromeda Message-ID: <3070@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 03:26:26 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3070 Posted: Tue Nov 6 03:26:26 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 00:16:46 EST References: <3971@cbscc.UUCP> <207@spp2.UUCP> Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 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 UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar