Light Years and Warp Speed.

[groucho]

I've just been watching star trek :hehe: I'm not a trekky before anybody starts.
Anyway, Somebody said "There are enemy vessels approaching, they are 60 light years away and will intercept us in 4 hours"
Now, I know if something is a light year away, then it takes something travelling at the speed of light or light itself one year to get there.
Warp 1 as in Start Trek, I thought was light speed and warp 9 was 9 times the speed of light.
So, even if the ship was going warp 10 which is meant to be max speed, in my calculations it should take 6 years to intercept them and not 4 hours.
So, what's going on?

I need a beer.

[simpo two]

Logarithmic?

[Eric Mc]

Scientific inconsistencies are rife in TV and film science fiction. Just watch the show and chill

[srebbe64]

It's not real - it's imaginary.

[groucho]

srebbe64 said:

It's not real - it's imaginary.

Am I real? - That's what my missus asks me sometimes.

[Jaglover]

simpo two said:

Logarithmic?

Yes, I believe it is on a Logarithmic scale

[andy_s]

'ye can'nay break the laws o' physics cap'n'....

It's beer Jim, but not as we know it.

[Scoobz]

Careful.. Your geek is showing.


Shirley it depends how fast the other feckers are travelling?

[cotty]

Eric Mc said:

Scientific inconsistencies are rife in TV and film science fiction.

Like why hasnt anyone tried to get Seven of Nine into bed.

[mybrainhurts]

Pondering this fascinating concept, I think I can say that I would.......


























Probably spill me coffee......

[dilbert]

Well I guess you could have waited four years for them to arrive. Would have been a bit of a naff story though.

Edited to add;
(Sorry it's six years!)

>> Edited by dilbert on Friday 7th October 21:39

[simpo two]

groucho said:

Somebody said "There are enemy vessels approaching, they are 60 light years away and will intercept us in 4 hours"

Just a thought - if they were that far away, how did they know the other ship was there? All electromagnetic waves travel at 'c', so nothing would have reached them...

Simpo concludes: There is a Hyper-c wave....

[judas]

cotty said:

Eric Mc said: Scientific inconsistencies are rife in TV and film science fiction. Like why hasnt anyone tried to get Seven of Nine into bed.

[geek]Didn't she get it on with Harry Kim?[/geek]

[ErnestM]

When it comes to Star Trek, google is your best friend...

www.star-fleet.com/ed/warp-chart.html


ErnestM

[groucho]

Jaglover said:

simpo two said: Logarithmic? Yes, I believe it is on a Logarithmic scale

Explain.

cotty said:

Like why hasnt anyone tried to get Seven of Nine into bed.

Absolutely, it would take a bit more than a few nano probes to frighten me off.

[groucho]

ErnestM said:

When it comes to Star Trek, google is your best friend... www.star-fleet.com/ed/warp-chart.html ErnestM

Now it's becoming clearer. But even using that chart, at warp 10 it would still take them just under 22 days to reach them and not 4 hours.

[simpo two]

groucho said:

Explain.

It means that Warp 2 is not 2x but 10x faster than Warp 1, Warp 3 is 100x faster, and so on. Plot it on a graph and you get a curve as opposed to a straight line. That's a 'logarithmic' curve.

The most common example is the Richter scale, so a '7' earthquake is 10 times stromger than a '6'.

[8Pack]

Oh well! It's all relative anyway!...........

[Marquis_Rex]

groucho said:

Jaglover said: simpo two said: Logarithmic? Yes, I believe it is on a Logarithmic scale Explain. cotty said: Like why hasnt anyone tried to get Seven of Nine into bed. Absolutely, it would take a bit more than a few nano probes to frighten me off.

In the original series Warp 1 was defined as

1 x 1 x 1 or 1 ^3 times the speed of light.
Warp 2 was therefore 8 times the speed of light.
In TOS it was also possible (allegedly) to go faster than warp 10, (The Andromedans got the ship to warp 25 for instance)- in TNG era the warp scale was redefined where warp 3, say, was 3 ^ 5 or 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 times the speed of light.
I'm not a trekkie honest

[andy_s]

quite quick then.