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Old 05-26-2006, 10:20 PM
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At high impulse you'd be experiencing pretty high time dilation effects due to that whole special relativity schtick, so I guess avoiding it would be a good idea. As far as I know you couldn't "get" to warp speed - the Treknology of warp engines goes that they fold space, so that though you are effectively going faster than c, you aren't actually, so special relativity is preserved. In impulse you're moving in real space, so it's a completely different propulsion method - you couldn't, by going fast enough, go from impulse to warp speed (because under impulse power c remains as a hard limit) therefore limiting your maximum speed to a fraction under c.

But don't quote me on that.
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