neonzx wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 10:50 am
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.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 3:12 pm
by 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.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 3:38 pm
by bob
Off Topic
Suranis wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 3:12 pm
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.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 3:44 pm
by Foggy
Only a pissosito would want to go past WARP 10 anyway.
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:43 pm
by Kendra
Like a rogues gallery.
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You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:49 pm
by Kendra
Agreed.
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:05 pm
by 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
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Kendra wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 5:22 am
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.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2021 12:54 pm
by Atticus Finch
And they are breeders.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 12:58 pm
by filly
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2021 1:01 pm
by Atticus Finch
Next he go to Hitler's hometown because Hitler wrote the communist manifesto.
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 3:47 pm
by 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.
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2021 12:45 am
by 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.