Star Trek fans, how fast is "Warp 1?" and is "Warp 9" 9 times faster or does it raise exponentially?
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It's like the rictor scale (earthquakes).  Warp 2 is twice as fast as warp 1.  Warp 3 is twice as fast as warp 2.\n\nSo say warp 1 goes 1 foot a second. (it goes MUCH faster.)\n\nWarp 2 goes 2 feet a second.\n\nWarp 3 goes 4 feet a second.\n\nWarp 4 goes 16 feet a second.\n\nWarp 5 goes 256 feet a second.\n\nWarp 6 goes 65536 feet a second.\n\nAnd Voyager got to go warp 10 through a poorly written script :)
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If you're referring to the Freight version, it's pretty slow, even without the normal 20-mosquito payload, no more than 35 knots. The Passenger Swallow, though, can manage 48 knots unladen (and, incidentally, nearly that fast laden, since it's only a two-poucher). \nHowever, you probably know that Swallow is planning to phase out their Passenger version, in much the way Pigeon Air did theirs (misguidedly, I think) in 1900 when they thought it was a money-loser. So get your thrill ride while you still can!
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ask captain kirk or jean luc picard
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It doesn't matter if the person inside the ship isn't aware of his speed, he cannot double his speed if he started out going 99.9 times the speed of light.  Period.\n\nSo, your question doesn't have any relevance.  \n\nAlso, it is the observer from the outside that sees the slowing of time for the people in the ship.  The people in the ship aren't aware of any slowing of time, because everything including their motion inside the ship, and brain functions slow down as well.  They have no idea that their time is slowed.\n\nBut, you are correct: neither ship can go faster than the speed of light, and each ship will not see the other ship going faster than light either.  It can't even look like something is going faster, even if its speedometer shows a speed slower than light.
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Here's an article on warp drive\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_drive
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around 1/6th that of earth so around 1.64m/s
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The comment about a worm hole (or warping for that matter) is only partially true.  The object that travels through a worm hole or a space warp still can only travel (assuming it has a mass) at the speed of light through that worm hole or space warp.  It only "appears" to travel much faster than that from an "observer" not in the worm hole or warp.\n\nThe difference is the "effective" speed can be much faster than light; however, the object can only travel the speed of light.\n\nAn example; lets say that you have a car that travels at 100 mph (~160 km/hr) and you "created" a worm hole (or space warp) to travel from New York to LA.  You would still only drive at 100 mph, but the travel time form NY to LA would be fractions of a second thus for an observer from say Dallas would "see" your car one moment in NY and a faction of a second later "see" your car arrive in LA.\n\nFor people that might not understand a worm hole is like folding the map of the US in our example and if you can "fold the map" in the right way such that NY and LA are right on top of eachother it would only take a fraction of a second to travel from NY to LA in your car.
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The Next Generation was BY FAR the best to me.\n\nNow I'm too old to know about the Original Series too much, and the special effects are too corny for me now adays.  Anyway...  Here's why TNG is the best.\n\n-Dynamic characters that don't seem too forced (you'll see the oposite later)\n-The Enterprise was not DOOMED every episode - sometimes it was just about one or two characters\n-Was VERY optimistic about the future\n-Spoke about conditions of humanity and why we're the way we are.\n\nDS9 was my second favor, but there's some tihngs I didn't like...\n-Too political for my liking (I hate the Bajoran and Klingon episodes)\n-Much dimmer view of the future\n-The Difiant is all that's given to protect the MOST IMPORTANT STATION in the galxy?!  I can't suspend THAT much disbelief.\nEven so:\n-I really liked Sisko and some of the other characters\n-Good to see O'Brien get a big part\n-Aweosme battle sequences and such\n\nNext is Voyager, which had a few REALLY good seasons. (I think season 1 and 2 were better then most of DS9) \nUnfortunatly... there were problems...\n-everyone seemed TOO diverse. (an asian guy, a white guy, woman captain, half klingon, Indian, hologram, alien ect.)\n-too many 'back in time' plots.  \n-EVERY episode saw Voyager in iminent danger\n-After 7 came on, most characters didn't even matter anymore! (Kim, Tuvok)  \n\nAnd Enterprise?  Well..\n-The idea of a prequal is kinda dumb to me\n-Why are the Vulcans asses?\n-As soon as they had the 'de-tox' segment in one of the first episodes, where they striped down and oiled up... I knew it was over.'\n\nOn a fun note, I leave you a quote from a Banditos song:\n'Show your ID card to the border guard,\nyour alias says you're Captain Jean Luc Picard,\nof the United Federation of Planets,\nbut he won't speak English anyway'
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Right now, we're not even close to faster-than-light (or FTL) travel.  All out traveling has to be done at less than the speed of light, so most stars are farther away than we can get to.  Even at half the speed of light (which is far faster than we can travel) it would take 8 years to reach the nearest star, not counting the Sun.  (Not to mention 8 more years to get home afterward!)  Nothing can move faster than the speed of light, so our best hope is to do just like they do on Star-Trek.  The found a way to bend spacetime to get to distant stars without actually moving through normal space, which had less of a curve.  Nobody has any idea how to do that now, so we just have to keep expanding our understanding of science until we do.  Until then, I think our best bet on meeting intelligent extraterrestrial life is to hope for them to come to us!
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91-92 MPH on average. I think he's been clocked at 94 before. And no, it can't go back in time. Without a time machine, anyways.
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Contrary to popular belief, matter can actually travel at or faster than the speed of light, in a way. How?\nThe object must first be travelling close to the speed of light by conventional propulsion. In order for it to at least match light speed, it MUST utilize warp drives. (remember Star Trek?)\nWarp drives work by using gravity to condense the space fabric in front of the object and antigravity from antimatter to expand the space fabric behind the object. In theory, if the object is travelling close to the speed of light through adequately-condensed space, the object should be travelling at more than the speed of light if the space is expanded. Get what I mean?\nTry this representation. Picture a flat napkin. Superimpose the x and y coordinates of the Cartesian planes onto the napkin. Now, fold the napkin along the x-coordinates, starting from the left to the right, folding down the napkin for the first time, folding it up the second, folding it down the third... Now, soak one end of the napkin, I mean the longer ends, along the y-axis. The result is the whole sheet getting soaked, because the water travels through the "condensed" form of the napkin directly. If you soaked one end of an open, flat napkin, the water still travels at the same speed through the napkin, only this time, it doesn't travel as far within the similar periods of time.\nThe speed of the water represents the speed of your object, and the napkin represents the fabric of space. Get the picture? The object doesn't travel faster than light speed by itself. It never broke the laws of physics, but travelling through condensed space produces the intended effect.
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http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/startrek/index.htm
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Warp speed is a fictional speed from Star Trek assumed to be the speed of light Warp one.  Because of the distance to the comet and the fact that we are moving through space at over 60,000 mph any movemeny will be imperceptible to the naked eye.  Use time lapse photography to see movement.
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I believe it is expanding.  The speed og light, c, is the cosmic speed limit for objects or radiation within spacetime.  Spacetime itself can (hypothetically) expand faster than c, though what the limit to this might be I don't know.  Special relativity is not violated since there is no object being accelerated.
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Speed of.. gravity? :S
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I could be a real snit and say "Three words: 'no Prime Directive'" but I won't.\n\n"Stargate has less history"?  "Star Trek has two centuries of history"?  \n\nCorrect me if I'm wrong, but wasn't one of the main problems with the short-lived "Enterprise" the fact that it was revisionist history, placing people and events in places they weren't supposed to be for another two hundred years?  (Yes, that Borg-on-ice episode comes to mind, the VERY LAST episode of that show I watched.)\n\nIf you want to get technical, SG-1 has over five THOUSAND years of history to build from, and that's only if you go back to when Daniel Jackson led the Egyptians in a revolt against Ra and kicked him out of Egypt.  The show also draws many of its characters, stories, and challenges from people and events of Earth's ancient mythologies, including (but certainly not limited to) the Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Celtic, Hindu, and Japanese pantheons.  That doesn't count the history of the Ancients and the Ori, which spans thousands of years before Earth's recorded history.\n\nHowever, THAT is not the reason I believe Stargate is better.  The characters of SG-1 are far richer and more believable than most of the characters of Star Trek, especially of the latter shows.  The friendships shared by the cast members of the show translate to the characters they play, giving the central people of the show an underlying chemistry that can't be faked.  The characters themselves evoke such strong emotions in the viewers that when the Daniel Jackson character was written out at the end of the fifth season, outraged fans over-loaded the studio's switchboard to the point it had to be shut down, and flooded the production offices with thousands of letters.  You think Paramount experienced the same when Tasha Yar was killed?  Or Jadzia Dax?  Nope, or if they did, they refused to acknowledge it as the folks of Stargate did: giving the fans what they wanted.\n\nI'm not denying the historical impact of the original Trek and how the waves it made in the late '60s-early 70s still resonate today, but it's apples and oranges to try to compare it to SG-1's action-packed, thought-provoking, pop-culture-referencing, self-effacing, friendship-building, moral-strengthening, darn good story-telling.
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