Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!zentec!qumix!ittvax!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa 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 Article-I.D.: ncoast.432 Posted: Wed Oct 24 15:19:28 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Oct-84 05:39:04 EST References:<> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland Lines: 20 Summary: Close, but no. > Article <>, from steve@calmasd.UUCP (Stephen R. Cary) +---------------- | As I remember reading my friend's Star Fleet Technical Manual... | | | apparent velocity = c raised to warp level | | 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. --bsa Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | E1439@CSUOHIO.BITNET (friend's acct.) ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- `Confusion is my natural state.'