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Today while getting ready for work it suddenly dawned on me that Star Trek has never explained how they deal with the rotation of the galaxy while traveling at warp. I mean if they use a subspace field to isolate the ship from the influences of space making the ship virtually weightless and allowing for speeds beyond the speed of light, then wouldnt the galaxy start spinning away from them as they traveled? If you think of it in terms of space travel in our own solar system, we currently have to angel approaches to planets based on their orbit. It isnt a straight line to where the planet is when the satellite or space craft is launched. Now if you factor in the rotation of the galaxy, which is traveling exponentially faster than our planetary orbit, everything in the solar system is orbiting at the same speed and there fore not affected by it for local sub light speed travel. But if you were to implement a subspace field from the Star Trek universe on a local satellite, wouldnt the solar system take off away from the satellite? Further more, if you used a subspace field to travel at the speed of light to the next closest solar system, wouldnt it take longer than light years to reach the system because of it moving away from you at the speed of the galaxies rotation? These are the things we need to think about people!
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:46:53 +0000

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