<story><title>Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07332</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akiselev</author><text>Do you want an HN flamewar? Cause that’s how you start an HN flamewar! :-)&lt;p&gt;The warp factor table at [1] makes absolutely no sense.&lt;p&gt;Enterprise (the show) warp 4.6: 90 light years in 4 days.&lt;p&gt;Voyager warp 4.7: 10 light years in 3 weeks.&lt;p&gt;Enterprise (the show) warp 5: 50 light years in 3 months.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;memory-alpha.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Warp_factor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;memory-alpha.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Warp_factor&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>vondur</author><text>At warp factor 5 it&amp;#x27;s only 27 days away!</text></item><item><author>akiselev</author><text>The star system in question: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gliese_1002&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gliese_1002&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only 15.8 lightyears away. Unfortunately I can’t find an estimate for the age but it’s a main sequence red dwarf with under 0.35 solar masses which implies it can burn for much longer than our sun - on the order of trillions of years: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Red_dwarf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Red_dwarf&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moffkalast</author><text>On that wiki entry:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (p. 55) states the actual speed values of a warp factor are dependent upon interstellar conditions, for example gas density, electric and magnetic fields in different regions of the galaxy, and fluctuations of the subspace domain. Also quantum drag forces and motive power oscillation cause energy penalties to a ship using warp drive.&lt;p&gt;Depends on road conditions, very convenient for plot.</text></comment>
<story><title>Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07332</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akiselev</author><text>Do you want an HN flamewar? Cause that’s how you start an HN flamewar! :-)&lt;p&gt;The warp factor table at [1] makes absolutely no sense.&lt;p&gt;Enterprise (the show) warp 4.6: 90 light years in 4 days.&lt;p&gt;Voyager warp 4.7: 10 light years in 3 weeks.&lt;p&gt;Enterprise (the show) warp 5: 50 light years in 3 months.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;memory-alpha.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Warp_factor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;memory-alpha.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Warp_factor&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>vondur</author><text>At warp factor 5 it&amp;#x27;s only 27 days away!</text></item><item><author>akiselev</author><text>The star system in question: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gliese_1002&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gliese_1002&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only 15.8 lightyears away. Unfortunately I can’t find an estimate for the age but it’s a main sequence red dwarf with under 0.35 solar masses which implies it can burn for much longer than our sun - on the order of trillions of years: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Red_dwarf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Red_dwarf&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucioperca</author><text>Well well as long as you do not understand warp technology and do not have warp technology no one will explain it to you - prime directive</text></comment>