Transporter Range?

[James Wright]

I'm having trouble converting transporter ranges from miles to kilometers & kilometers to miles, somebody HELP!
If TNG Enterprise transporter range was 40,000km, what's that distance in miles? What is the range of TOS Enterprise transporters in km if the range is 16,000 miles?

JDW

 

[uss_griffin]

Try this little trick: google: "40000 km to miles" (40 000 kilometers = 24 854.8477 miles)
and "16000 miles to km" (16 000 miles = 25 749.504 kilometers)

(It was even able to do this one: "100 furlongs per fortnight to meters per second" (100 (furlongs per fortnight) = 0.0166309524 meters per second))

 

[kv1at3485]

Step 1: Locate a metric<->imperial conversion table for linear units.
Hint 1: Wikis may help.

Step 2: Research information pertaining to basic mathematical operations.
Hint 2: Search for 'addition', 'subtraction', 'multiplication', 'division', etc..

Step 3: Accrue resources to carry out mathematical calculations.
Hint 3: If able, try it mentally. If requiring physical aids, try pencil and paper. If lazy/incompetent, try an electronic digital device.
Hint 3a: If using an electronic digital device, locate documentation as to the use of said device.

etc..

 

[James Wright]

Thanks for the info!

JDW

 

[GodThingFormerly]

JDW said:
What is the range of TOS Enterprise transporters in km if the range is 16,000 miles?

The transporter system aboard the original NCC-1701 was stated to have a maximum operational range of 30,000 kilometers (18,641.13 miles) in the episode Obsession.

TGT

 

[Trekker4747]

JDW said:
I'm having trouble converting transporter ranges from miles to kilometers & kilometers to miles, somebody HELP!
If TNG Enterprise transporter range was 40,000km, what's that distance in miles? What is the range of TOS Enterprise transporters in km if the range is 16,000 miles?

JDW

Really?

Would it have been THAT HARD to look up the conversions and do the math yourself?

 

[Forbin]

I've even got a handy Reference Guide I picked up at the hardware store that converts everything to everything, at a glance!

 

[Cary L. Brown]

Conversion factors are easy to look up and use... seriously...

However, if you're going to be doing a LOT of conversion, from all variety of units TO all variety of units, for all types of values, there are some nice tools available.

I've become largely dependent on this at work... I keep it in my "accessories" folder right next to the windows calculator and Notepad and so forth... I use it that much. Of course, I'm an engineer so conversion factors are something I use, certainly dozens and probably HUNDREDS of times every day, in my job. So it's been a real time-saver.

http://joshmadison.com/software/convert/

 

[James Wright]

All of you know about these conversion tables & tools because you know where they are on the internet, until I asked the question I didn't know of these tools, I'm still learning what I can do with a computer, just give me a chance!

JDW

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

That's okay. We chuckle politely at Americans and any other countries still using archaic units of distance, and thus need redundant conversion tools to get with the rest of the planet. Damned stonecutters.

That said, in local distances it's nice to remember 10 feet = 3 meters, and 5 miles = 8 kilometers, roughly. Everything else multiplied out in whole numbers.

Mark

 

[Squiggy]

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it!

 

[Trekker4747]

Here, The Greatest Resource on the Internet for Conversions.

 

[uss_griffin]

The God Thing said:
The transporter system aboard the original NCC-1701 was stated to have a maximum operational range of 30,000 kilometers (18,641.13 miles) in the episode Obsession.

Well, it is established that it is at least 30,000 km. We know the ship was ordered to maximum orbit, then it was reported that it was holding at 30,000 km. And we know they were in range (at least borderline). (I just watched Obsession yesterday.)
If we take the transporter as the limit for defining "maximum orbit" it would follow that the transporter range is 30,000 km (and it must be either transporter or communicator that defines the limit, I would think). However, it may be that this is the limit when expecting to transport someone in close proximity of an antimatter explosion (lots of subatomic particles racing about). The range might have been greater than that under better circumstances.

BTW, where does the oft-repeated 16,0000 mile range of transporter and communicator come from? SFTM?

 

[James Wright]

The 16,000 mile range is given in the Stephen E. Whitfield/Gene Roddenberry book "The Making of Star Trek".

JDW