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!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: distance and velocity Message-ID: <328@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 01:19:51 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.328 Posted: Wed Nov 6 01:19:51 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 02:06:31 EST References: <847@nmtvax.UUCP> <228@astroatc.UUCP> Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Distribution: na Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 26 In article <228@astroatc.UUCP> johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale) writes: >1: How fast are each of the warp factors > A: Someone told me, and I feel it's wrong, that > velocity (in Xc) = (warp-factor) cubed. This is indeed the official formula, as published in the Star Fleet Technical Manual. >2: How big is our galaxy? > A: My astonomy notes say something like 100,000 Lyr by 60,000 Lyr > (Major/Minor axies of enclosing elipse) > Can anyone varify this? Those numbers sound very familiar. I assume that the 60KLyr is in the Z direction, perpendicular to the galactic plane, because the galaxic spiral should be circular, right? >3: How big is the federations area of contact/exploration??? > Hint: They left the galaxy twice, right? How many times > did they go "galavanting half way across the galaxy?" Come on, that's a figure of speech. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar