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Hey, isn't Mars called the RED Planet, anyway?
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: and whistlewhips....
I heard that on the radio and the talk radio guy, nor much of anyone else knew what it was.... Any clues???
No idea. I've never heard that term before. Maybe it's related to whistleblower somehow?
Or it's some kinky referee S&M fetish.
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Got me, but Bush is one also.... So it must not be a good thing....
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I looked Whistlewhip up on Google and got four entries about Fairies from some fantasy story.
Are they calling our manly President a Fairy? Bastards. It's all because of that pretzel choking incident.
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In 2287, a Klingon Bird of Prey destroyed Voyager 1. The probe was 1073.1 AU from Sol (launched in 1977, speed 3.4615 AU/year).
The probe was 160.6 billion km from Sol (99.9 billion miles.
Seems like a far distance, but it represents a flight time from Sol (at wf9) of 5.66 minutes).
At present, the Maritime Exclusion Zone is 40 miles (64.4 km) - 1 hours steaming time for a Carrier Task force at flank speed.
At wf9, 1 hours flight time is 0.1729 ly - 1.636 trillion km (1.01 trillion miles for Americans and other metric-challenged persons).
I put it to you that the BOP was well within our Territorial Limit - Starfleet and our Sol Defense Force didn't go apeshit because it decloaked, fired and re-cloaked before they could get their spandex-covered asses in gear.
Humans like round numbers (although Vulcans like lots of nice decimal places). The 1 hour flight time/1.363 trillion km (and yes [sigh] nicely rounded 1 trillion mile] exclusion sphere would work out very well. The point after all is to detect a fleet within your zone while giving you plenty of time to warn the enemy off while coordinating and gathering your forces to meet them.
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quote:Originally posted by Treknophyle: I put it to you that the BOP was well within our Territorial Limit - Starfleet and our Sol Defense Force didn't go apeshit because it decloaked, fired and re-cloaked before they could get their spandex-covered asses in gear.
Or the probe had fallen through a wormhole, transwarp conduit, or any of the several billion types of anomoly out there that can transport things far distances.
Of course, if you want to believe that a Klingon BOP had just wandered into the Sol system on the off chance that there might be some debris to shoot up, be my guest.
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