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SpetnazFrank103
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 Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:23 pm I need help |
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Is 1500000000 knots equal to Warp 1.71?
I Need to find Warp 1.71 in knots. Can someone help me please
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TrekkieMage
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| Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:26 pm |
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The speed of light is 299,792,458 m / s which is 582,749,918 knots.
Warp 1.71 "is" 1.71 times the speed of light, so:
1.71 (warp) = 996,502,360 knots
So not quite.
Yay Google 
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Voyager2004
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| Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:40 pm |
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| TrekkieMage wrote: |
Warp 1.71 "is" 1.71 times the speed of light, so: |
Actually, that's not quite so true. Warp 2 is 10x the speed of light, when measuring the Speed of Light in Kilometers per second.
This chart below measures the Speed of Light in Kilometers per Second (KPS). So one would need to find the appropriate formula for changing Kilometers into Meters, or Kilometers into miles...and use the same formula for changing how many times the speed of light to equal that of warp speed...if I'm making any sense...if I'm not, please let me know and I shall try to clarify.
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lionhead
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| Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:08 am |
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I think Warp 1,71 is about 7 times the speed of light. So i guess thats 4,079,249,426 knots
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Morphy
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| Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:50 am |
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It's always been my understanding that "warp" is the speed of light (c) times 10 to the [warp number].
c x 10 ^ [warp number]
warp 1 = c x 10
warp 2 = c x 100
warp 3 = c x 1000
etc
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Voyager2004
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| Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:19 pm |
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| Morphy wrote: | It's always been my understanding that "warp" is the speed of light (c) times 10 to the [warp number].
c x 10 ^ [warp number]
warp 1 = c x 10
warp 2 = c x 100
warp 3 = c x 1000
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No...Warp 1 IS the speed of light. And one could also refer to the Warp Speed Chart posted above.... 
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JanewaysTwin
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Incorrect, Morphy. Using good old formulas, you are saying if L represents lightspeed, N represents the warp factor and S is speed, you are saying that the warp formula is S=LxN to the power of W, than warp 9 would be S=9 to the tenth power, or 1000000000 times the speed of light. 1 billion times the speed of light would mean that going, say, 15 LY would be as quick as a drive around the block, maybe shorter. As evidenced with the Voyager crews amazement at the velocity of the quantum slipstream drive, 14 LY is a bit of a journey. If 70,000 LY at warp 9 is 75 years, and only 3 months at slipstream velocity, the figures would not add up with the above formula.
In short, that formula would have Voyager home in milliseconds.
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