▲ 332 ▼ Battle of the Bands (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by negativenull@lemmy.world [M] to c/tenforward@lemmy.world 130 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ben_dover@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) Americans will come up with some ridiculous unit for it, like 3 1/16 * 10^24 inches per lunar cycle permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago Don't be ridiculous. We all know it's gonna be "Football field per Superbowl Season". permalink fedilink source parent [–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Or, y'know, warp factors. XD permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ben_dover@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Isn't warp just light speed? I was under the impression that warp 1 is the speed of light, and eg warp 7 being 7x the speed of light permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] knightly@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago Nope! Warp factors aren't linear, they're logarythmic until like warp 9.6 where they go exponentially towards infinity at warp 10. https://www.startrek.nl/sites/default/files/sbs/images/database/misc/warp_chart.gif permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago Don't be ridiculous. We all know it's gonna be "Football field per Superbowl Season". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Or, y'know, warp factors. XD permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ben_dover@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Isn't warp just light speed? I was under the impression that warp 1 is the speed of light, and eg warp 7 being 7x the speed of light permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] knightly@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago Nope! Warp factors aren't linear, they're logarythmic until like warp 9.6 where they go exponentially towards infinity at warp 10. https://www.startrek.nl/sites/default/files/sbs/images/database/misc/warp_chart.gif permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ben_dover@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Isn't warp just light speed? I was under the impression that warp 1 is the speed of light, and eg warp 7 being 7x the speed of light permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] knightly@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago Nope! Warp factors aren't linear, they're logarythmic until like warp 9.6 where they go exponentially towards infinity at warp 10. https://www.startrek.nl/sites/default/files/sbs/images/database/misc/warp_chart.gif permalink fedilink source parent
[–] knightly@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago Nope! Warp factors aren't linear, they're logarythmic until like warp 9.6 where they go exponentially towards infinity at warp 10. https://www.startrek.nl/sites/default/files/sbs/images/database/misc/warp_chart.gif permalink fedilink source parent
