Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years Website: http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/ Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/95099/...build-a-real-starship-enterprise-in-20-years/ [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMafReWFSfE[/yt]
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye Oh god. Nope, haven't seen this anywhere before. http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=175303
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye I cannot see it being done in 20 years with what we know now.
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye Its like a ghost ship.. showing up everywhere unwanted.. Mwah, you know, if they first manage to build Island I, II, III and the like I might start believing it.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'neil_cylinder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_torus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernal_sphere
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye It shows what the saucer section would hold, but the rest is just for show? May as well just make a flying saucer.
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye Sure, we could build a Starship Enterprise in 20 years. It just won't, like, fly or anything.
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye I would imagine the rest is also usable parts of the ship, but without the simulated gravity. Of course, if we ever expend the resources on a project like this, I highly doubt they will use a design that looks like the enterprise.
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye Beyond the silliness of the design, we haven't produce any ion engines with more than a fraction of an ounce of thrust. From wikipedia: An NSTAR thruster producing a thrust (=force) of 92 mN[7] will accelerate a satellite with a mass of 1000 kg by 0.092 / 1000 = 0.000092 m/s/s (or 9.38E-6 g). A terrible waste of time and resources when we could look at a more practical design like the Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye If it doesn't go beyond the solar system then it's not a starship. A starship (whether slower-than-light or faster-than-light) is one that travels interstellar distances between stars, not putting around the solar system.
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye Seems to be jumping the gun a bit, considering that even with 22nd century technology, the NX-01 wasn't as big as the NCC-1701.
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye I wouldn't mind seeing a big ROV version as a submarine...
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye What difference does "22nd century technology" make in this regard? It's all made up. If this guy wants to design to the appearance of one fictional spaceship rather than another, it's all the same.
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye It'd make a grand orbital hotel!
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye yeah it just wouldn't look like enterprise, move like enterprise, or even last like the enterprise.
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye Why not? Oh, alright, it couldn't break orbit, but aside from that ... why not?
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye Why waste money on something so incredibly frivolous?
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye Why not? If it could be shown to potentially make a profit, it'd hardly be a waste. Was Disney World a waste of money? It certainly was frivolous, but it makes millions of dollars a year and supports hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and tourist stops along all the roads that lead to it.
Re: Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Ye Since when was this thread about iPads?