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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] "psyliam, how many times do i have to say this, none of the ships travel faster than light". Oh my dear God, I feel like I'm arguing with Omega (joke). Okay, how many times do I have to say, YES THEY DO! "remembering warp isn't a speed it's a factor." Huh? I'm pretty sure it's a speed. I haven't actually got my tech manual next to me (sorry), but the warp factors ARE speeds. These are probably wrong, but ignore that little nitpicky detail. Warp 1 is the speed of light (or 1c). Warp 2 is (say) 8 times the speed of light, or 8c. It goes up to over 1000c at over warp 9 and a bit. "(only between 9.6 and 10) is when ships do actually have a slight speed increase." No, the ships get faster the higher the warp facter they go at. Are you saying that a ship travelling at warp 6 is going the same speed as one going at warp 4? That's just, well, wrong. And, if I remember, there's a HUGE difference in speed between 9.6 and, say, 9.9. Since warp factor speeds increase exponentially, the difference between 9.6 and 9.9 is far greater than the difference between warp factor 1 and 2. "transporters only travel at the speed of light.not faster!" Light-speed is just as impossible as faster than light speed, if I recall correctly. Er, unless you're made up of light. And I meant that from a physics point of view, Transporters are just as impossible as FTL drive, because for a transporter to work, you'd need to know both the position and movement of individual atoms. Or something like that. It's to do with that Heisenburg guy. I hate physics. Anyway, why am I arguing this? Me! I mean, arguing that ships travel faster than light in Star Trek is the second most pointless argument ever after "the show is set in the future". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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