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[neonzx]

Help your fellow geek here. Twice the speed of light is what Warp-factor in the Federation ST manual?

Star Trek had different warp tables over its various iterations, but twice the speed of light would be around warp 1.25.

I always considered Warp 1 = C; Warp 2 = 2C, etc. But I also considered that it might have made sense if Warp 1 = C and Warp 2 = C², etc.

I never looked up to see if Roddenberry had a 'style manual' to ensure consistency.

Back in my younger years, I had a ST tech book. Warp speed was exponential, not linear. (kinda like how we measure earthquakes on the richter scale)

[raison de arizona]

Link should take you to five minutes into the video.

[Slim Cognito]

Or as it's known in the real world, another Wednesday on Fox News.

[northland10]

Help your fellow geek here. Twice the speed of light is what Warp-factor in the Federation ST manual?

Star Trek had different warp tables over its various iterations, but twice the speed of light would be around warp 1.25.

To a point since warp speed is not actually going faster than the speed of light. It generally involves, if I understand correctly, theoretically going around the rule. When you can't break the rule, you go around it. When you can't do that such as with transporters, you compensate, by making a compensator named after that annoying prick who said you can't do that, like Heisenberg.

[Suranis]

The real reason for "warp 9.8" in TNG etc was that in the Star trek cartoon they had a linier scale and speeds of "Warp 15" were common. And Gene Roddenberry hated the hell out of it. So he invented a really complicated scale that would always have warp always referred to in a single digit, even though the Enterprise D was supposed to be faster than the Original Enterprise.

Basically warp 10 in that scale was occupying every part in the universe Simultaneously - infinite speed.

Really though I think the effect was to actually hinder give people a sense of the real speeds involved. People don't generally think exponentially.

[bob]

Off Topic

The real reason for "warp 9.8" in TNG etc was that in the Star trek cartoon they had a linier scale and speeds of "Warp 15" were common. And Gene Roddenberry hated the hell out of it. So he invented a really complicated scale that would always have warp always referred to in a single digit, even though the Enterprise D was supposed to be faster than the Original Enterprise.

Basically warp 10 in that scale was occupying every part in the universe Simultaneously - infinite speed.

Yup; warp ("factor") 10 was invented as an arbitrary hard limit. But due to plot magic, OG Enterprise once went warp 14.1.

And, due to inflation, in the contemporary series, transwarp can go faster than warp 10.

[Foggy]

Only a pissosito would want to go past WARP 10 anyway.

[Kendra]

Like a rogues gallery.

[Frater I*I]

Like a rogues gallery.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...

[Kendra]

Agreed.

[neonzx]

Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom

Honest to God, @BretBaier is now asking @CDCDirector “how come people in Austria can’t come to visit their grandchildren while illegal immigrants are pouring in over the border” and saying that the high Covid rates in the south are because of illegal immigrants. Right on brand.
6:31 PM · Jul 30, 2021

[Resume18]

Like a rogues gallery.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...

And Grift. Don't ever forget grift. These four may be varied grades of stupid, but they do understand how to gull even dumber people for profit.

[Frater I*I]

And Grift. Don't ever forget grift. These four may be varied grades of stupid, but they do understand how to gull even dumber people for profit.

Priority number 1 for the GQP platform....

One has to wonder what they'll do with all those US dollars after they've run the US right into the ground...

[Kendra]

Is it just me, or is she scraping the bottom of the barrel with this group?

[tek]

Maria continues to open the false bottoms of the barrel to discover another level..

Seems Stephen Miller has returned from the crypt...

[Uninformed]

Cross-posted from the Anti-vaxxers thread.

“Sky News Australia barred for week by YouTube over Covid misinformation”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58045787

[Chilidog]

Only a pissosito would want to go past WARP 10 anyway.

In the Spinal Trek universe, Nigel can go to Warp 11.

[Slim Cognito]

Only a pissosito would want to go past WARP 10 anyway.

In the Spinal Trek universe, Nigel can go to Warp 11.

And the drummers wear red shirts.

[Frater I*I]

Is it just me, or is she scraping the bottom of the barrel with this group?

More like digging under it, hence the return of Miller from the grave...

[Kendra]

Is it just me, or is she scraping the bottom of the barrel with this group?

More like digging under it, hence the return of Miller from the grave...

Miller is vile. From what I've read of the Leoning (sp?) Rucker book, his wife Katie is a close second.

[Atticus Finch]

And they are breeders.

[filly]

[Atticus Finch]

Next he go to Hitler's hometown because Hitler wrote the communist manifesto.

[Kendra]

Fox News has Bush's press secretary AND Trump's press secretary AND Trump's daughter-in-law on the payroll to explain that what is happening in Afghanistan is 100% Biden's fault.

[RTH10260]

Ask faux-news how many troops the former impotus left in Afghanistan for Biden to handle the situation! I seem to remember something like 2000 remaining as of November 2020.