I have often wondered just how fast planets, star systems can go:
http://www.space.com/15023-warp-speed-planets-light-speed.html
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/superfast-stars-black-holes/
http://www.universetoday.com/116872...stars-spreading-life-throughout-the-universe/
Imagine how the universe seems to evolve before your eyes, as your whole spaceship "Earth" raally behaves like a spaceship. Time dilation on a planetary scale. A system wide scale.
You'd seed von Neuman probes, have them slow down and do their work over eons--and live to see it all unfold
You'd actually see the cosmos move, evolve, wouldn't you?
Then too, after many years your time--your own star system is the only source of light in the cosmos. Everything else had died or went out--and space is truly black.
Rather like that Voyager episode.
You have to go nearly warp one just to get to it.
A perfect idea of what Memory Alpha should have been.
A repository on a planet near a hypervelocity star.
An express ride to the future, and the past preserved.
Ships appear, dissappear in the wink of an eye.
Maybe Trek got it right after all--just differently
http://www.space.com/15023-warp-speed-planets-light-speed.html
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/superfast-stars-black-holes/
http://www.universetoday.com/116872...stars-spreading-life-throughout-the-universe/
Imagine how the universe seems to evolve before your eyes, as your whole spaceship "Earth" raally behaves like a spaceship. Time dilation on a planetary scale. A system wide scale.
You'd seed von Neuman probes, have them slow down and do their work over eons--and live to see it all unfold
You'd actually see the cosmos move, evolve, wouldn't you?
Then too, after many years your time--your own star system is the only source of light in the cosmos. Everything else had died or went out--and space is truly black.
Rather like that Voyager episode.
You have to go nearly warp one just to get to it.
A perfect idea of what Memory Alpha should have been.
A repository on a planet near a hypervelocity star.
An express ride to the future, and the past preserved.
Ships appear, dissappear in the wink of an eye.
Maybe Trek got it right after all--just differently