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TIL: Star Trek's Warp Speed "warp factor 1" means travelling at 1x the speed of light. Once in TNG, Riker claims that the Enterprise would need around 20 minutes for a 300 billion kilometer flight at Warp 9. Thus Warp Factor 9 corresponds to a speed of 900 billion kilometers per hour

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