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The space ship Enterprise Star Trek fabricated on a one-billionth scale (zyvexlabs.com)
12 points by habs 5941 days ago
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And when you carry it at a walking speed you achieve a scale velocity of warp 2!
Let’s see if we can calculate that:

The Enterprise D is about 650 m long, the scale model 8.8 µm. If you move the model 1 m you move it about 114,000 times its length. If the real thing were to move 114,000 times its length, it would move 74.1 million m. If your walking speed is 1 m/s, the speed of the real thing comes out to one quarter c. Not nearly enough. (Wikipedia says that warp 2 is about 10 c.)

Calculating how fast you would have to walk if you wanted to reach a scale velocity of warp 2 is left as a exercise to the reader.

(I’m not really that good at math so please feel free to correct me :)

I used the "one billionth" in the headline. Your size numbers come up to about 74 million instead of 1 billion. I think the headline writer was wrong. You will have to hop in a car and hit the open road to get to warp 2.
Note that this uses the "new" warp tables, which are controversial to some folks.
It looks like the Borg got to it first...