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   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:52:25 -0500, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E.   
   Spoor)"  wrote in   
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   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.science,rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
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   > Most combat in TOS was at Warp speed, and occasionally was   
   > between one ship in warp and another not in warp. Often   
   > these combats would include someone (Sulu, generally,   
   > though sometimes Spock) calling out ranges to target in   
   > kilometers, and they'd be counting down something like   
   > "Fifty thousand kilometers... forty thousand   
   > kilometers..."   
      
   > Note that even saying it was at impulse drive doesn't   
   > solve the problems with their lack of distance   
   > comprehension since impulse drive was capable of bringing   
   > you nearly to lightspeed, so even at half impulse power   
   > you'd cross 50,000 kilometers in considerably less time   
   > than you could SAY "fifty thousand kilometers". All their   
   > battles, whenever ranges were given, were at ludicrously   
   > close distances for space battles, and even more so since   
   > they were usually flying around under warp drive which   
   > should make any normally comprehensible distance   
   > completely irrelevant.   
      
   Theyotta use yottametres.  (Not really: the diameter of the   
   observable universe is estimated to be only 880 Ym.)   
      
   Brian   
      
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