<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=191946.msg9362509#msg9362509">Quote from: AndyZ on 23-12-2013, 23:59:01</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Doing the math on some of the stuff they've said on Voyager implies that they can do about 1,000 light years in a year, which is 1,000 times the speed of light.<br/><br/>I may have misunderstood your math (please correct me if I did), but to calculate like that, all the stars would have to be lined up at roughly equivalent distance.  Given their spacious three-dimensional nature, you can fit in a lot more than if they were arranged like road signs.  For example, you can cross a chessboard of 64 squares while only entering eight of them.  If my math is right, you could fit 1,000 stars into a 10 by 10 by 10 area, and only have to cross the length of 10 of their distance points.  I'm not sure how closely that equates, though.<br/><br/>We're also not 100% that each point is a star.  It's probably meant to be, but things go on by way faster than the eye can see.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Okay, so lets count the number of white dots that exit at a specific point... because my guess of a thousand was a conservative guess.<br/><br/>I counted about 200 in the bottom left corner. I'm sure I missed a few, too, but we are not dealing with accurate figures here, anyway.<br/><br/>200 stars with an average distance between them of 4000 light years, is a total distance of 800,000 light years. We are doing that in 60 seconds.<br/><br/>That means the ship is travelling at 420,000,000,000 times faster than c.<br/><br/>Should have stuck with my original estimate, Andy!