Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Where Were They? Message-ID: <1148@ihuxp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 13:38:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxp.1148 Posted: Thu Jul 4 13:38:54 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jul-85 09:22:30 EDT References: <515@hoxna.UUCP> <4574@mit-eddie.UUCP> <422@osu-eddie.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 > "Millions of light-years" is clearly an exaggeration, but easily > explained. Trivial even. Zarabeth would not understand "light-year", > but millions of 'em is still an impressive distance, when you consider > that no unit of distance smaller than a pace is ever used to measure > travelling. Even a million paces is a *long* way over arctic land. > > Lum Johnson ..!cbosgd!osu-eddie!lum or lum@osu-eddie.uucp Ah, but you forget that by going back in time the planet will have traveled the millions of light years, in terms of galactic drift, the movement of their solar system, and the planets movement. When having the displacement in space, you also have the displacement in absolute spatial coordinates. . . . you would have to travel millions of lightyears to reach where Spock came from - the planet in the future. -- Walt Pesch AT&T Network Systems ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch