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Old 24-March-2008, 11:41 PM
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Default star trek: first contact. - distance error

I noticed something weird when I watched the movie again last weekend:
when Zefram Cochrane's ship does its short warp ride,
you see the surrounding stars blur into bright lines
(supposedly because of the enormous FTL* speed of the ship).

But then the ship stops, turns around,
and they can still see Earth through their cockpit window.
And it looks a lot closer than e.g. Venus looks from Earth

That shouldn't be possible, right?
(at least not without extreme magnification...)

If you move for 30 seconds so fast that the background stars start to blur*,
you should have moved way out of sight of planet Earth...

*let's suppose for a moment faster-than-light warp travel is possible, I was just wondering about the distances...
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