How fast is 50 light years in 20 minutes?

[Brent]

I was watching "Prometheus Unbound" last night (really great episode btw), and in it they got a distress signal that was 50 light years away (Vala), and Walter said they could be there in 20 minutes.

So this gives us an idea of how fast the Prometheus could travel in hyperspace. So how does that work out to how fast they were going?

Obviously, the Daedalus class had faster hyperspace engines, but I'm wondering how fast compared to the Prometheus.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I don't know but I bet it still couldn't do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

A little more than 1.3 million times the speed of light.

20 minutes are 0.333 hours which are 0.013888 days which are 0.000038 years (if we use 365.25 days for a year). 50 light-years divided by 0.000038 years are 1.316 million.

At that speed you'll need about four weeks to cross the entire Milky Way galaxy.

 

[Chris3123]

Over 244 billion miles per second (244,942,723,882.6503 mps, to be more accurate). Though I don't think hyperspace works that way.

 

[Leroy]

How do we know for sure the 304 is faster? I thought at this point the 303 was upgraded with a new engine making the trip to check up on Atlantis possible.

 

[Xerxus]

In terms of speed, Daedalus-class vessels are still blisteringly fast compared to other species. A Goa'uld ha'tak could travel approximately 32,000 times the speed of light in hyperspace. The Asgard hyperdrives aboard Daedalus-class vessels take twenty days to reach the Pegasus galaxy (Comments within Stargate Atlantis make Atlantis 3 million light years from Earth.) This is nearly 1,800 times faster than Goa'uld hyperdrives (Or approximately 54,750,000 times faster than light).

Source: Stargate Solutions Wiki

 

[Brent]

How would all that compare to Warp speed factors?

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

How would all that compare to Warp speed factors?

Somewhere between Warp 9 and Warp 10, but much "closer" to 10 than 9? (if we use the TNG scale)

 

[Leroy]

I remember it was stated in a season 1 episode of Atlantis that it would take 3 months or so for the upgraded Prometheus to make the trip to Pegasus. I can't remember whether or not it was the ZPM that made the Daedalus much faster.

Somewhere at the "upper" part of the range between Warp 9 and Warp 10? (if we use the TNG scale)

It's got to be more like transwarp or slipstream speeds at warp 9 it would take Voyager decades to cross the milky way let alone fly to another galaxy.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Somewhere at the "upper" part of the range between Warp 9 and Warp 10? (if we use the TNG scale)

It's got to be more like transwarp or slipstream speeds at warp 9 it would take Voyager decades to cross the milky way let alone fly to another galaxy.

Alright, it's somewhere between Warp 9.9 and Warp 10 then. It would come down to speeds like "Warp 9.99999999963" or something like that.

 

[Skellington]

How would all that compare to Warp speed factors?

It's significantly slower than the NuEnterprise's maximum warp, I reckon.

 

[Saquist]

How would all that compare to Warp speed factors?

Faster than Warp 9.9999 which is 199,516x Lightspeed which would get you tot he next Galaxy in 10 years.

 

[Xerxus]

Ugh,

Star Trek post TNG warp speed scale is terrible. Why make Warp 10 the theoretical limit?

Makes no sense.

 

[David cgc]

I remember it was stated in a season 1 episode of Atlantis that it would take 3 months or so for the upgraded Prometheus to make the trip to Pegasus. I can't remember whether or not it was the ZPM that made the Daedalus much faster.

The Prometheus with the Asgard engines she got at the top of season eight could make the trip from Earth to Atlantis in three months. The Daedalus, which was built around an Asgard engine, could do the trip in 18 days with her stock reactor, and 4 days if she was boosted with a ZPM.

 

[The Wormhole]

Star Trek post TNG warp speed scale is terrible. Why make Warp 10 the theoretical limit?

Because then we wouldn't have gotten that brilliant Voyager episode Threshold.

Seriously, I actually do like that episode.

 

[Brent]

I remember it was stated in a season 1 episode of Atlantis that it would take 3 months or so for the upgraded Prometheus to make the trip to Pegasus. I can't remember whether or not it was the ZPM that made the Daedalus much faster.

The Prometheus with the Asgard engines she got at the top of season eight could make the trip from Earth to Atlantis in three months. The Daedalus, which was built around an Asgard engine, could do the trip in 18 days with her stock reactor, and 4 days if she was boosted with a ZPM.

3 days with a ZPM

 

[Saquist]

Star Trek post TNG warp speed scale is terrible. Why make Warp 10 the theoretical limit?

Because then we wouldn't have gotten that brilliant Voyager episode Threshold.

Seriously, I actually do like that episode.

I actually like the episode except the ending.

 

[SG-17]

Did anyone catch how long it took Destiny to travel between those two galaxies?

I really hope that I am wrong with my feeling that a BC-304 will be introduced next season having caught up to Destiny.

 

[bullethead]

Did anyone catch how long it took Destiny to travel between those two galaxies?

I really hope that I am wrong with my feeling that a BC-304 will be introduced next season having caught up to Destiny.

Spoiler: Season 2.5

The SGC is planning to use Langara's (Jonas Quinn's planet) naquadriah core to dial Destiny.

 

[SG-17]

Did anyone catch how long it took Destiny to travel between those two galaxies?

I really hope that I am wrong with my feeling that a BC-304 will be introduced next season having caught up to Destiny.

Spoiler: Season 2.5

The SGC is planning to use Langara's (Jonas Quinn's planet) naquadriah core to dial Destiny.

Source please.

As well...

Spoiler: Heavy metals

I thought that only a few large veins of naquadah-converted naquadria existed on Langara, not that the entire core was naquadria?