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colin
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In the Bible, there is a mention to travel time.

A ship departs from Alpha Centauri and arrives at Arcturus a year later. The ship is traveling at warp 2. What is the calculated speed of this ship per hour? Per day? Per month?


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Well, Warp 2 on the old scale was 8c. So he'd travel eight LY/year, which is 2/3LY/month, which is 1/6LY/week, which is 1/42LY/day. So a ship traveling at warp 2 could traverse a light-year in about six weeks.

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Siegfried
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Here's Warp in miles per hour and kilometers per hour:

  • approximately equal to 5,353,280,035 miles per hour.
  • approximately equal to 8,634,322,637 kilometers per hour.

In miles per day and kilometers per day:

  • approximately equal to 128,478,720,841 miles per day.
  • approximately equal to 207,223,743,292 kilometers per day.

In miles per month and kilometers per month:

  • approximately equal to 1,541,744,650,093 miles per month.
  • approximately equal to 2,486,684,919,504 kilometers per month.

Hopefully, my math is correct. If it isn't, I'm sure I'll hear about it.

[EDIT: Damn stupid list UBB coding proper syntax...]

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Wait...are we talking King James or New International?
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Siegfried
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Neither. I'm going by the Pompatarian measure.

Actually, I used this site to get my numbers for the amount of miles and kilometers in a lightyear. Then I multiplied those numbers each by 8 (because the distance traveled at Warp 2 by Omega's post is 8 times greater than at Warp 1). After that, I divided each number by 8675.76 (hours in a year) for the per hour measurement, by 365.24 (days in a year) for the per day measurement, and by 30.43 (months in a year) for the per month measurement. Granted, my measurements are not going to be exact because I didn't adhere strictly to significant digits and the such.

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TSN
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Arcturus and A.C. are about 35.5ly apart, if I calculated correctly. So, if this is supposedly a two-year run, as mentioned in the ENT bible, the ship in question was going at a little under 18c.
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But if it was a round trip, which I'm sorta getting from the context, then it was 35.5c.

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Well, yes.
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