And? It wasn't designed for Earth. While things are being built, supports, struts, and any number of external "help" are used to keep a structure from collapsing in on itself.
The outline in the gizmodo article seems more accurate then other sources I've seen yet.
Anti-grav units, nice. What about when it flies off; the anti-grav units fly along? It uses anti-grav lifting to get into space as opposed to thrusters?
Ever heard of anti-grav units?
Seriously, at a time when high superluminal velocity and shipboard inertia and gravity control are common, why wouldn't gravity control devices be common during construction?
I can accept that Starfleet decided to pour more funding into R&D and ended up scaling up the basic design of their ship when it was finally built. I'm still not entirely cool with building it on the ground, but as many have said if they can distort space, surely Earth gravity is no big deal. It just seems uneccessarily difficult not to do it, say, on the moon. But whatever.
So the entire ship was beamed into space then? Those supports were not released and then it did not fly into space?
Anti-grav units, nice. What about when it flies off; the anti-grav units fly along? It uses anti-grav lifting to get into space as opposed to thrusters?Ever heard of anti-grav units?
