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Star Trek Enterprise Tested to Mach 5

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 28, 2003 @04:22AM from the to-much-spare-time dept.

Sporkinum writes "University of Queensland Laser Diagnostics Dept has a page where they put the Enterprise through the gauntlet in a mach 5 wind tunnel. It did surprisingly well."

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Re:Eh? by proj_2501 · 2003-10-28 04:32 · Score: 4, Informative

Warp 1 is stated to be c in both the TOS and TNG warp scales in the Star Trek TNG Technical Manual.

After that the warp scales are two divergent wacky exponential sawtooth things.