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Even at Warp 9, Space Travel Would Take Forever
- elil17 7y agoWhat exactly is Warp 9.9? Is there some meaningful reason why that corresponds to 2000x the speed of light?
- furgooswft13 7y agoJust get to Warp 10 then you can travel everywhere instantly. It might turn you into a salamander though.
- fulafel 7y agoWhat would be the speeds be as estimated by the whooshing by stars in the windows / viewscreen? edit: someone says the answer is around 32e6 x c here: https://www.quora.com/Star-trek-regularly-depicts-warp-speed-with-stars-zooming-by-at-a-rate-similar-to-falling-raindrops-what-velocity-would-they-need-to-accelerate-to-achieve-this https://www.quora.com/Star-trek-regularly-depicts-warp-speed... - based on "Let’s say that stars are, on average, 5 light years apart, and that a nearby star seems to go by once every 5 seconds [...]"
- lainga 7y agoOnce that was realized, the whooshing particles were retconned by the TNG writers to be random interstellar particles that were glowing due to warp effects.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> In "Star Trek," a warp factor of 1 is light speed, and a warp factor of 9.9 is more than 2,000 times greater than light speed. And yet, warp 9.975 is only 1,000 times light speed, warp 4.5 is over 8,000 times light speed, and Warp 7 is 4-10 million times light speed. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Warp_factor https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Warp_factor Trek is many things, consistent about the relation between warp factors and speed is not among them.
- heisenbit 7y agoThe warp drive warps time/space. For it to work consistent time and space would have to be consistent in the universe. When you press your accelerator you don't expect the same reaction going uphill or downhill.
- Cheyana 7y agoAs Douglas Adams said in The Hitchhiker’s Guide: “ Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
- justinclift 7y agoNo mention of perceptual time inside the craft when traveling though. That would make a large difference for many cases (eg population expansion). ;)