Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation by a former NASA scientist proves it

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Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation by a former NASA scientist proves it
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The animation shows how long it takes the starship Enterprise in 'Star Trek' to reach Pluto at warp factors that break the known laws of physics.

In the sci-fi series"Star Trek," spaceships rapidly travel from one part of the universe to another using warp drives. The speed of light in a vacuum is about 186,282 miles per second . In"Star Trek," a warp factor of 1 is light speed, and a warp factor of 9.9 is more than 2,000 times greater than light speed. But James O'Donoghue, a former NASA scientist who's now at JAXA, animated warp-speed velocities in the solar system using the Enterprise spaceship.

In the sci-fi series"Star Trek," spaceships rapidly travel from one part of the universe to another using warp drives. The speed of light in a vacuum is about 186,282 miles per second . In"Star Trek," a warp factor of 1 is light speed, and a warp factor of 9.9 is more than 2,000 times greater than light speed. But James O'Donoghue, a former NASA scientist who's now at JAXA, animated warp-speed velocities in the solar system using the Enterprise spaceship.

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