Alpha Centauri, of course...

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Adam — 2/11/2009 9:49:05 AM (archived)

It's closest and visiting it would settle whether it has planets or not. Only a couple of days at Warp 8 (512 c) and close enough to home to limp home on impulse within a human lifetime if the warp-core has to be ejected...

...you did say "Star Treknology" didn't you?

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where should we go - DWC - 2/11/2009 1:16:51 AM
- To the nearest earthlike exoplanet (n/t) - Raoul - 2/11/2009 8:31:30 PM
  - Where would that be? - FrankC - 2/11/2009 11:41:20 PM
    - That's for the future to find out (n/t) - Raoul - 2/12/2009 6:34:39 AM
      - Okay, I was buying into the premise of the original post - FrankC - 2/12/2009 6:02:07 PM
    - Well, we've got a Star Trek spaceship. Look it up in the ship's computer. (n/t) - TB - 2/12/2009 4:29:31 AM
      - Class M planets - Socrates II - 2/12/2009 3:15:31 PM
- "Orion," dude... - McFly - 2/11/2009 6:22:29 PM
  - Careful about Orion - FrankC - 2/11/2009 6:37:53 PM
    - Is that from "Empire?" (n/t) - TB - 2/11/2009 6:58:07 PM
      - Masters of Orion (n/t) - FrankC - 2/11/2009 10:33:44 PM
      - They're GREEN - Socrates II - 2/11/2009 7:07:10 PM
        
        I stand most humbly corrected - Ensign McFly - 2/12/2009 12:47:12 AM
- To do list. - et - 2/11/2009 5:55:45 PM
- Heck with the starships, give me a Class F shuttlecraft. - TB - 2/11/2009 4:48:48 PM
  - And the controls are so beautifully simple - Socrates II - 2/11/2009 7:16:10 PM
    - re: beautifully simple - TB - 2/12/2009 2:57:58 AM
      - A link - TB - 2/12/2009 3:06:25 AM
- I'd boldly go... - nick hoffman - 2/11/2009 10:08:17 AM
- Alpha Centauri, of course... - Adam - 2/11/2009 9:49:05 AM
  - Epsilon Eridani, for starters - Socrates II - 2/11/2009 2:47:34 PM
    - 10 metre starship warp - Adam - 2/12/2009 8:37:53 PM
      - And something tells me... - Socrates II - 2/12/2009 8:49:07 PM

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