• @kaotic@lemmy.world
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    173 months ago

    I thought warp speed is the speed of light. Anything above warp 1.0 is faster than the speed of light.

    • @cordlesslamp
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      63 months ago

      I think they called it “warp factor”. And Warp factor 1.0 is indeed equal to light speed.

      • @accideath@lemmy.world
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        53 months ago

        Yea but warp 9 isn‘t 9x the size of light but much much more (somewhere between 800x and 1600x, depending which source you believe. But it’s not like trek canon is consistent there).

        I suppose it’s somewhat logarithmic, since Warp 1 is c and warp 10 is infinite speed. probably gets a bit annoying in the Warp 9.975 range.