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   From: nognog@adelphia.net   
      
   "Alexander Rogge"  wrote in message   
   news:dJydnZ2dnZ1WMNL8nZ2dne_1gt6dnZ2dRVn-zZ2dnZ0@rcn.net...   
   >>>"Where No One Has Gone Before" - TNG, Series 1.  An "upgrade" to the warp   
   >>>core propells the Enterprise 300 light years out of the Milky Way.   
   >   
   > LaForge: "At maximum warp... it would take over 300 years to get home."   
   >   
   > LaForge: "...we've not only left our own galaxy but passed through two   
   > others, ending up on the far side of Triangulum, the galaxy known as   
   > M-33."   
      
   M33 is 3 million light years away.   
   At light speed going 670 million miles an hour or 5.8 trillion miles a year   
   it would take 2.9 million years to get there. If warp 10 is 10 times the   
   speed of light it would take only 300,000 years to get there.   
      
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