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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: New discussion
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Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 20:43:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 26 20:43:00 1985
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>>function to  near zero. The area in which a ships field will warp space to
>>a detectable amount is huge so that a incoming ship can be detected several
>>minutes away. 
>  ^^^^^^^
> This is something else that has worried me a bit. If the thing's travelling
> at warp 6 ( which we all can agree is faster than the speed of light even
> if we're not sure by how much ) then how can you possibly detect it? Unless
> you have some sort of "beam" ( read radiation of some kind ) that goes
> whereever a ship goes when it warps space.
> 
If you have no problem accepting that the ship goes faster than light, what's
wrong with a method of detection that operates faster still? Maybe a ship
using warp drive gives off a characteristic radiation that propagates much
faster than the ship's speed. Maybe some kind of faster than light radiation
is used as radar.

			Scott McEwan
			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan

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