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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Warp speed is peanuts
Message-ID: <224@orca.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 11:24:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 17 11:24:36 1983
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Even with the super-turbo-hyper-charged warp drive which allows
"emergency" speeds of warp 12 (= 12^3 c = 1728 light-years/year), it
would take 22 hours to travel from here to Alpha Centauri, the nearest
star.  Yet the Enterprise flashes by stars so fast you can hear them
"whoosh" (-:

Star Trek works best if you ignore the whole question of how fast the
ship is going.  Even if a true space warp is involved, several
well-understood facets of relativity are violated.

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)  [UUCP]
                       (andrew.tektronix@rand-relay)     [ARPA]