posted January 01, 2005 06:41 AM
If as Dr. Paul Knappenberger from the Adler Planetarium in Chicago states, That the average density of stars is 0.007 per cubic light year in this part of the galixy, the spiral arms, then how fast is the Enterprise going in each of the various serries's stock shots?
Someone with a DVD player and time on their hands would have to watch and then count the stars as they flashed by in the back ground durring some specific interval in time. A little math and presto-digitarius a speed figure that would be canon and superceed the hype.
Or has this aready been done and ifso what is the answer?
The star streaks, outside of a cool looking special effect, must therefore be the result of subspace distortions while at warp. Perhaps micrometeroids or space debris striking the subspace bubble generated by the ship travelling at warp.a
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posted January 03, 2005 03:34 PM
Even the TOS-era warp stars (or the similar-speed "impulse stars" from TNG) would require speeds of 20,000,000c, as judged by going really bloody fast in the program Celestia.
Although I disagree with the common non-canon warp speed charts in favor of the preponderance of canon velocities, the 20,000,000c figure is quite outside the proper ballpark.
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posted January 04, 2005 05:53 AM
I thought they were Hydrogen Atoms, otherwise why would you need those Brussard Collectors on the front of the nacelles.
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posted January 04, 2005 06:48 AM
I thought they were photon particles myself and that the streaking was to show that the ship was overtaking the light from distant stars, not the stars themselves. Mind you wouldn't (or rather shouldn't) that create a red to blue doppler shift?
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