Warp Speed

[cbrunny]

Why can they still see the stars out the window behind them when they are travelling at faster than warp speed on Star Trek? Doesn't make sense.

 

[nakedfrog]

They're not actually physically traveling FTL, due to the warp field?

Hell if I know, it's a fucking TV show.

 

[SKORPI0]

http://www.space.com/19268-star-wars-hyperspace-physics-reality.html

 

[IronWing]

They never experience weightlessness on the Enterprise and you're worried about warp? Same with the Death Star, the decks are a stack of disks with everybody standing with their feet toward the south pole, "down".

 

[TheELF]

Because stars have send out their radiation for billions of years now into every direction,no matter how fast you go the light of the star is already ahead of you.
Light does not travel instantaneously,the streaks are not real-time streaks of the stars but "after effect" streaks of the already emitted light.

http://www.space.com/19268-star-wars-hyperspace-physics-reality.html

Star trek has specially polarized windows!

 

[Squisher]

They also can hear stuff happening outside in space.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I never understood the need for windows on an interstellar spacecraft.

 

[IronWing]

I never understood the need for windows on an interstellar spacecraft.

We're human, we need to see for ourselves. We open the oven door to see that it is hot even though we can read the thermometer just fine. We cut open our veins to prove to ourselves that our heart beats.

 

[zinfamous]

The only thing I got out of Star Trek is that Shatner likes stroking large dick-shaped rocks.

 

[TheGardener]

Next thing you know, the OP will be questioning why it is when the crew are caught in the dock bay and the doors to outer space open, why they don't explode from the lack of external pressure. I mean how far do you take this? Are we suppose to question that kung fu fighters can leap 30 feet in the air?

 

[SKORPI0]

The only thing I got out of Star Trek is that Shatner likes stroking large dick-shaped rocks.

Related video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql8KzgSdgVM

 

[cbrunny]

Because stars have send out their radiation for billions of years now into every direction,no matter how fast you go the light of the star is already ahead of you.
Light does not travel instantaneously,the streaks are not real-time streaks of the stars but "after effect" streaks of the already emitted light.


Star trek has specially polarized windows!

This can't be it. Same reason why when you're driving in a car in the rain, and you're at highway speeds, the rain won't land on the back window. It doesn't fall fast enough. The light from the stars can't travel faster than light so even if what you suggest is true it does not hold through the windows and in the space between the windows and the eye of the beholder. There isn't any way for any light to exist there. And because the ship is travelling faster than light there is no way for the light to catch up to the eye of the beholder.

Doesn't make sense.

 

[cbrunny]

They never experience weightlessness on the Enterprise and you're worried about warp? Same with the Death Star, the decks are a stack of disks with everybody standing with their feet toward the south pole, "down".

C'mon man. Gravity plating. Don't be ridiculous.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Magnets.

 

[TheELF]

This can't be it. Same reason why when you're driving in a car in the rain, and you're at highway speeds, the rain won't land on the back window. It doesn't fall fast enough. The light from the stars can't travel faster than light so even if what you suggest is true it does not hold through the windows and in the space between the windows and the eye of the beholder. There isn't any way for any light to exist there. And because the ship is travelling faster than light there is no way for the light to catch up to the eye of the beholder.

Doesn't make sense.

Nothing can go faster then light,a warp engine warps space to make the distance between two points shorter,this way you can travel slower then time but still arrive ahead of it because you travel a shorter distance.

 

[FerrelGeek]

The only thing I got out of Star Trek is that Shatner likes stroking large dick-shaped rocks.

And he gets laid more than you.

 

[ioni]

Same reason you can see people walking along the sidewalk while you're in your car travelling faster than them.

 

[cbrunny]

Same reason you can see people walking along the sidewalk while you're in your car travelling faster than them.

what? no. you clearly don't understand my question.

 

[cbrunny]

Nothing can go faster then light,a warp engine warps space to make the distance between two points shorter,this way you can travel slower then time but still arrive ahead of it because you travel a shorter distance.

This is not accurate. The warp drive generates a warp field, which is a subspace bubble, essentially. It does not shorten the distance, but instead allows travel via subspace. However, in either case, neither explanation of how warp works explains why they can see the stars behind them.

 

[Puffnstuff]

http://www.space.com/19268-star-wars-hyperspace-physics-reality.html

Thank you for posting that link. I found the story to be very interesting as it addressed my question concerning visible light during ftl travel.

 

[zinfamous]

And he gets laid more than you.

well maybe if I also carried around large dick-shaped rocks I could compete?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

well maybe if I also carried around large dick-shaped rocks I could compete?

Only if you use them to hit women over the head.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Only if you use them to hit women over the head.

My name is Donald Trump and I approve of this message.

 

[FerrelGeek]

My name is Donald Trump and I approve of this message.

And Bill Clinton looks on laughing and thinks, 'Thank God there's a D after my name!! I can grab all the p*ssy I want and no one cares!!!'

And Hillary whispers in his ear, 'If the little skank tries to make any trouble, I'll destroy her just like I did with the others!!'

 

[Puffnstuff]

Any man who grabs or gropes a non consenting female is wrong period.