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    "Fozzi"  wrote:   
      
   > "David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   > news:2d3s62hb2ohm91qn196mud3toqr89pf0nq@4ax.com...   
   > > On Fri, 19 May 2006 19:35:03 +0200, "Wouter Valentijn"   
   > >   
   > > Actually they did give the time that Enterprise would take to go from   
   > > Earth to, what was it, Neptune?  However they never established that   
   > > warp speed is a constant so that warp 5 inside the Solar System is the   
   > > same speed as warp 5 in interstellar space.   
   >   
   >   
   > mind you this is still a fairly uncertain figure, given that there are a   
   > couple of  light days distance between its orbital apogee and perogee, it   
   > isnt really a definiable quantity if we dont know the relative orbital   
   > positions of neptune and earth or at least the date (which would mean we   
   > could make a fairly accurate guestimate of those positions)   
   >   
   > cheers   
   > fozzi   
      
   You don't need the distances; Archer said how fast they were going, in   
   real world numbers.  They said how fast Enterprise could go, and how   
   long it took to get to the Klingon homeworld, and it puts the Klingons   
   .8 light years from us.  It's like a couple guys in a car leaving San   
   Francisco and saying "This baby will hit 120 mph on the freeway, so   
   we'll be to New York in an hour!"   
      
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