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Originally Posted by biker1
No. Warp is actually a cubed function. Warp 9 is 729x the speed of light. I can't believe I actually know this.
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Excellent point! That's the beauty (and disaster) of fake "science". The moment someone pokes a hole in it, you can just say "well, what I meant to say was... (Climate Change!)"
Warp 9 was 9 times the speed of light when Kirk was battling Tribbles. I seem to recall, it was even mentioned in the first series. Then somebody who stayed awake in 3rd grade did the math, and suddenly somebody with an 8th grade grasp of math declared it a cube function. Theory saved!
Of course that's just my theory, but I will stick to it long after I am proven wrong, because that's what we "scientific" types always do!