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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
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 01:19:51 1985
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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.
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    Barry Margolin
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