Ok, my first post here, but I am a Treker.
In a nut shell warp drive cheats to get around the infinite amount of power that would be needed to get to the speed of light. What warp does is create a subspace buble around the ship that pulls the ship out of normal space and time, which allows for faster than light travel. This has the added effect of sidesteping the theory of relitivity.
Eclipce
so how come they can step in and out whenever they want to? if they are in subspace, the outer shell of real space could be pretty far away...
much less fire weapons...
what is juisprudence? 
the prudency of juris, duh...
Straight from Dictionary.com
jurisprudence
Ah, but that wasn't the question... the question was
what is juisprudence?
As for the "sidestepping" issue... Star Trek has sidestepped many times. The best example is teleportation. Gene Roddenberry came up with that because their TV budget wouldn't cover the special effects required to create planetside landings with spacecraft. "Beaming" down the actors was a much cheaper solution.
\o/ Buzz got it!!! Nice to see you back Buzz 
ok in clear english now, eclipce fix your sig dude
The doppler effect just shifts the wavelength though. If I could be arsed I'd work it out with some formulae, but I can't be.
funny thing is, teleportation is feasible... but requires a computer with terrabytes upon terrabytes of really really fast memory.
even at the rate we're going now, I doubt we'll see something like that anywhere near the near future ...
now why does Buzz get it??? he never answered the question!
I WANT A MARGARITA AS WELL!!!!!!
My sig is a quote from one of Joseph Story's writings. It would not be proper for me to change it.
Ok... for the slow people in the room...
I'll speak slowly...
eclipce, you misspelled "Jurisprudence" in your sig. You spelled it without the R: J-u-i-s-p-r-u-d-e-n-c-e
Hence the smartass question,
What is juisprudence?
Was that clear enough for all y'all??? :p
Durn episode's still downloading. :mad:
Originally posted by epimeth
funny thing is, teleportation is feasible... but requires a computer with terrabytes upon terrabytes of really really fast memory.
Of course, if you only want to teleport something really simple you don't need such capacity; at Australia National Univeristy a team is already realiably teleporting lasers, and hope to have their apparatus weaned onto solid food (like single atoms) within a few years. After that, I guess the next challenge would be a water molecule..
Now the real challenge is teleportation without a receiver - like on Star Trek ... all the existing methods rely on having one handy.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go out and recalibrate the main sensor array or I'll never get decent reception.
and I got to change some gelpacks on deck 4 section 12.
I did a quick google search.. couldn't find any mention of how they did it. Do you have any information on the experiment itself?
Oh well, one little "r". 
\o/ Eclipce!
I think that the details of the teleportation thing are quite secret at the moment for most universities in the world are in some kind of a race...
Other than the idea that the original copy is destroyed in the transport. I think thats cool. When they can actualy send the original copy I might not mind transporters transporting humans...
Untill that happens the current transportation system has religious implications.
I think the idea is like moving a file... you aren't really physically tranferring the file. It is copied to it's new location, then deleted from the original place.
What I want to know is this: Let's assume that in 300 years they perfect transportation / replication. Will they be able to transfer the soul, too? How about brainwaves? Will a person be the same person when they are transported?
Makes ya think... love to hear what you all think about that.
