Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: New discussion Message-ID: <24900113@uiucdcs> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 20:43:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.24900113 Posted: Sat Oct 26 20:43:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Oct-85 10:38:04 EST References: <353@uw-june> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:uw-june:-35300:uiucdcs:24900113:000:952 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan Oct 26 19:43:00 1985 >>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 "Analysis, Spock?" "Very bad poetry, sir."