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For you Trekkies...some numbers...
  • Speed of light - 186,000 miles per second, or 0.671 trillion miles per hour
  • Warp 1 = the speed of light
  • Full impulse speed = 0.25 the speed of light
  • 1 parsec = 3.1 light years
  • To calculate warp speed numbers above 1, it is the warp number cubed. So warp 3 = 3X3X3, or 27 times the speed of light.
  • In the Milky Way, the average distance between stars is ~ 4.5 light years. At warp 3, that means it would take 60 days to go from a star to another. That's why they travel at higher warp speeds for longer distances. At warp 6, it would take just over 7.5 days.
 
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finally pushed myself to finish RDR2... now into the Epilogue and it's....not the same...

Still good though. I'm ready to restart it ButI also started a modded Skyrim run last week
 
For you Trekkies...some numbers...
  • Speed of light - 186,000 miles per second, or 0.671 trillion miles per hour
  • Warp 1 = the speed of light
  • Full impulse speed = 0.25 the speed of light
  • 1 parsec = 3.1 light years
  • To calculate warp speed numbers above 1, it is the warp number cubed. So warp 3 = 3X3X3, or 27 times the speed of light.
  • In the Milky Way, the average distance between stars is ~ 4.5 light years. At warp 3, that means it would take 60 days to go from a star to another. That's why they travel at higher warp speeds for longer distances. At warp 6, it would take just over 7.5 days.
This holy union of math from my favorite Stars, both Trek & Wars, should be venerated & etched into stone
 
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We started watching Star Wars with my kids over the weekend. I haven't seen episodes 4, 5, and 6 since I was a kid so that was pretty nostalgic for me. I absolutely loved watching my 7 year old put the pieces of the Skywalker family tree together. As complicated as the story becomes, they were really into it! I don't remember anything about episodes 1, 2, and 3 so when we start those it'll be like watching them for the first time again.

My Harry Potter obsessed child was blown away when I mentioned that the man who did the music in HP also did the music for Star Wars. That seemed to peak her interest further when she started getting bored during long talking sequences. I'm waiting for the two of them to ask for light sabers. One has already requested an ewok. 😆
 
We started watching Star Wars with my kids over the weekend. I haven't seen episodes 4, 5, and 6 since I was a kid so that was pretty nostalgic for me. I absolutely loved watching my 7 year old put the pieces of the Skywalker family tree together. As complicated as the story becomes, they were really into it! I don't remember anything about episodes 1, 2, and 3 so when we start those it'll be like watching them for the first time again.

My Harry Potter obsessed child was blown away when I mentioned that the man who did the music in HP also did the music for Star Wars. That seemed to peak her interest further when she started getting bored during long talking sequences. I'm waiting for the two of them to ask for light sabers. One has already requested an ewok. 😆
You could further mention that Wicket W Warwick (who befriended Leia) was played by the same actor who was both Professor Flitwick and Griphook
 
We started watching Star Wars with my kids over the weekend. I haven't seen episodes 4, 5, and 6 since I was a kid so that was pretty nostalgic for me. I absolutely loved watching my 7 year old put the pieces of the Skywalker family tree together. As complicated as the story becomes, they were really into it! I don't remember anything about episodes 1, 2, and 3 so when we start those it'll be like watching them for the first time again.

My Harry Potter obsessed child was blown away when I mentioned that the man who did the music in HP also did the music for Star Wars. That seemed to peak her interest further when she started getting bored during long talking sequences. I'm waiting for the two of them to ask for light sabers. One has already requested an ewok. 😆
You brain was doing you favors forgetting 1, 2 & 3 🤣
 
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