George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Incredible. Warp speed, here we come!
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Oliver VanderbI wonder why they don't use something else, like the US folks always do. Like "that's 539.1 football fields in an average blink of an eye"
don albertson@georgetakei Of course Artemis didn't have to deal with the atmosphere when it was going that fast.
John Breen@georgetakei Many have suspected that the space between LA and NYC is a vacuum, so this might be possible on Earth.
King of Tors@georgetakei wellllll.... the equivalent of flying OVER LA and OVER NYC 6 minutes apart. And still puts us at, well, something like warp 0.0015
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Canadian Curmudgeon@georgetakei Still using the archaic imperial measurement system, eh? How quaint. Why aren't you measuring in cubits per hour or rods? They are just as modern.
Jeffrey Goldberg@georgetakei, and yet it took them ten days to fly from Florida to San Diego.
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱@jpgoldberg @georgetakei well, yeah, they took the extremely scenic route.
D1g1talDrag0n@georgetakei fast yes, but that’s only .00369% the speed of light. Let’s make it to 1% before we start bragging. I’d settle for .1% at ~670,000 mph.
In any case great job yall. Very proud!
@D1g1talDrag0n A long way to go!
Json Doh@georgetakei
Measurements: 6 minutes from LA to NY
Reality: 10 days nonstop from Orlando to San Diego 🙃
Measurements: 6 minutes from LA to NY
Reality: 10 days nonstop from Orlando to San Diego 🙃
Felix@jdoe @georgetakei
Not to mention lousy on-board service, e-mail inoperational (okay, that's a given with that vendor of the in-flight workspace system) and serious turbulence during landing for the first intermediate stop in the middle of the pacific.
Not to mention lousy on-board service, e-mail inoperational (okay, that's a given with that vendor of the in-flight workspace system) and serious turbulence during landing for the first intermediate stop in the middle of the pacific.
Tricot Feelya@georgetakei but then you’d be left circling JFK or LaGuardia or Newark for another hour before you could land…
William B Peckham@georgetakei I am a physicist and I have to point out that they could only get up enough power to build the speed to escape from Earth's gravity well enough to reach the moon through booster rockets that they no longer had available once they left Earth. The great speeds that they recorded were achieved by using the slingshot effect of the gravity of the moon. So that wasn't really their speed under their own power. That was the speed of falling. And in a vacuum you can fall really, really fast!
der.hans@georgetakei so, almost as fast as a pizza delivery car