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To: SunkenCiv
Far out man! Instead of stars passing by you got galaxies—really helps put the size of the universe in perspective.

What would have been real cool if in the video we got real close to one of the galaxies and skimmed over it for a while.

How fast are we going? Like warp factor 12?

5 posted on 08/13/2012 2:43:35 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Not voting for Ryan? Obama love you long time.")
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To: Happy Rain

[ geek alert! geek alert! ] The warp factor in Star Trek is speed of light times the square of the number; one of the little tidbits one notices is, for example, in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Sulu starts counting at “warp 2” — warp 1 is exactly the velocity of light, and the end-run around the Einstein limit is that warp 1 is off-limits. Sooooo, warp 12 would be 144 times c; also in ST4:TVH, timewarp is accomplished by a warp 10 (100 times c) slingshot trajectory around the Sun, an arbitrary figure required by the needs of scifi. :’)


11 posted on 08/13/2012 3:23:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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