[extropy-chat] The BIG One

[Damien Broderick]

>
>|-Wharp as demonstrated to trekkies signifies a non linear change rate but
>|does infer that the rate of change is not infinite but will be limited by as
>|yet unknown factors.
>
>Dear sir, you are in error: Trekkies (and trekkers) use the term "warp".
>
>The term, I believe, refer to the faster-than-light transport by "warping
>space-time" used in the fictional Star Trek universe.

No, the error was a different one, as indicated by the verb `infer'. What 
was intended was clearly Whorf, the Klingon, who presumably drew this 
inference in one of the episodes. Whorf's crabshell-like forehead might 
indicate a non linear change rate, but even though his head is very large 
and his voice very deep and his mood very very austere, this is not an 
*infinite* change.

Damien Broderick