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Old 01-13-2015, 04:28 PM   #322
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"Warp speed

If you're traveling in a spacecraft at a speed faster than light, you're moving at warp speed. The word warp comes from the Old English wearp which refers to threads running over fabric. In the 20th century, it became popular to conceptualize space and its relation to time as a fabric. The first known usage of warp in relation to speed was in a 1968 Star Trek script, 'All Our Yesterdays.' Since its debut in English, warp speed has taken on metaphorical senses outside the realm of space."


Source: 10 Words Coined in the Sci-Fi Universe
In Star Trek - The Original Series the warp factor is the speed of light times a cube of the warp factor (Warp Factor 1 is the speed of light, Warp Factor 2 is 8 times the speed of light, Warp Factor 3 is 27 times speed of light, and so on).
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