View Single Post Old February 5 2013, 02:18 PM   #40 Re: How
long does it take to traverse the UFP?  Well, "circumnavigating
Italy" in three dimensions would be a much shorter endeavor if
conducted "around the waist" along the east-up-west-down route
rather than along the north-up-south-down route or the north-
east-south-west one... (Assuming you had a ship that could
navigate through solid rock, that is.)  If the UFP is an amoeba
shape with tentacles thousands of lightyears long but a nucleus
only about 300 ly across, then "circumnavigating the entire
Federation" might only involve going around that nucleus.
However, I rather suspect that "circumnavigating" in this case
has little to do with "going around"; it's just a fancy and
inaccurate expression for "visiting all the traditional ports of
importance" - a voyage that may be significantly shorter or
perhaps significantly longer than simply hugging the border and
never visiting any important sights.  Timo Saloniemi Timo is
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