When Aliens Attack goof

So, if the Aliens of Omeicron 8... or whatever the hell the planet's name was.... live a 1000 light years from Earth, how did they travel to Earth so quickly? In order to do so, they would have to travel 10s of thousands of times faster than the speed of light - which is supposedly impossible.

Daniel Silberfarb wrote:

Aliens have superior technology that can't be comprehended by your puny human brain.

Convenience Drive.

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Omicron Persei 8.

As Larry F said, Sci Fi often involves faster-than-light travel. So far, no Futurama episode has explained how this works from the show's point of view. We've seen the phrase 'convenience drive' used in several media articles thus far, but the phrase has yet to appear on the show.

In 'real life', maybe it is impossible. The speed of light in the 'Star Trek universe' is warp 1. They break it down like this:

full impulse: 1/4 lightspeed warp 1: lightspeed [ls] warp 2: ls x10 warp 3: ls x39 warp 4: ls x102 warp 5: ls x214 warp 6: ls x392 warp 7: ls x656 warp 8: ls x1024 warp 9: ls x1516 warp 9.2: ls x1649 warp 9.6: ls x1909 warp 9.9: ls x7912 warp 9.9999: ls x199516

Dave Sweatt Futurama Chronicles http://futurama.simplenet.com

Actually, your table does not reference which form of warp drive: standard warp, trans warp or quantum. The original starfleet technical manual described the 'warp' speeds as the warp number being raised to the third (they actually used a graph to describe this). So that Warp 1 was 1x, warp 2 was 8x, warp 3 was 27x etc.

But that discussion is for another NG.

A wizard did it. . . "Smithers, have the Rolling Stones killed." "But sir, that's not..." "Do as I say!"

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Good job, Will! You passed!

I prefer the spaceball's universe myself: Hyperdrive, and some other drive I forget the name, but makes you go Plaid.

Anyone else anxiously awaiting SpaceBalls episode 0?

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That would kick ass! Too bad the Mel Brooks NG hardly gets any posts.

I remember the bit in _The Onion_ that had a picture of the kid from Jerry Maguire (since a lot of folks can't place the name to the face) and the headline "Jonathan Lipnicki to Play Young Dark Helmet in Spaceballs Prequel". Damn, he's, like, born to play that role. Look at 'im!

--brian

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Excerpts from netnews.alt.tv.futurama: 11-Nov-99 Re: When Aliens Attack goof by [email]

hehe, yah. That was such a bad ass movie.

Is that caused by the same phenomenon that turns your socks and underwear inside out in the drier?

-Gabe

Daniel Silberfarb wrote :

It is scientifically possible.......but only when it's funny.

Feh, its the future, they can do anything. Perhaps you thought you were watching presentrama or past o' rama. Excerpts from netnews.alt.tv.futurama: 11-Nov-99 Re: When Aliens Attack goof "chan555"@yahoo.com (403)

Isn't that from "The Tick"?

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:51:44 -0500, "Garry, the Seeker" wrote:

The Tick vs The Big Nothing "What? What? What? What?"