Vulcans are trying to build the Enterprise

[tharpdevenport]

No, really:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...s-for-a-project-that-would-put-nasa-to-shame/




I might have an excuse one day, if I can still travel and see, to go north. Or due north. ;-)

 

[JeffinOakland]

Re: Vulcan's are trying to build the Enterprise

Vulcans (the way you use it) is plural, not possessive. You don't need an apostrophe.

 

[NOVE9]

The end goal is 1.132 trillion dollars. good luck?

 

[Green Shirt]

It must be a joke since the Vulcans in the photo are smiling.

 

[Melakon]

Never going there again (only second visit to the blaze). First thing it wanted me to do was register and sign up for Glenn Beck emails.

 

[Last Redshirt]

It can't take nearly forty years to make a ship. It takes the Navy significantly less. I'd imagine the 2058 is a rough as hell estimate not on the ship but the technology required for it.

Is it supposed to be a 1:1 scale of the Enterprise? I hope to Lord it's the one from TOS because no way are we going into the galaxy in the NX-01.

 

[USS KG5]

It can't take nearly forty years to make a ship. It takes the Navy significantly less. I'd imagine the 2058 is a rough as hell estimate not on the ship but the technology required for it.

In terms of every aspect of technology, we are not even close to building the Enterprise, so it is all a bit silly.

2 billion of any currency would not even come close either, you would be talking trillions.

 

[HIjol]

...and to think you laughed at me a couple of months ago, in a different thread, when I suggested we start a TrekBBS Crowdfund to make the Star Trek movie we think should be made...hmmpphhh!...a measly couple of billion...that we could pick up anywhere...

 

[bbailey861]

I'm still laughing...and shaking my head at the same time.

 

[HIjol]

I'm still laughing...and shaking my head at the same time.

So am I!...but it still would be cool, if only it were possible...and we are nothing if not imaginative and capable of Big Dreams!

 

[Sector 7]

While TOS Enterprise is beautiful and iconic, it is not practical as a space faring vessel with anything near our current technology. The engines should be closer to the main body [or, at minimum, have MUCH more sturdy supports].

For practicality, I believe the Intrepid-class design of USS Voyager is a practical, yet beautiful, design to build.

 

[Enterprise1701]

I need to visit Vulcan, Alberta sometime.

 

[HIjol]

I'm still laughing...and shaking my head at the same time.

While TOS Enterprise is beautiful and iconic, it is not practical as a space faring vessel with anything near our current technology. The engines should be closer to the main body [or, at minimum, have MUCH more sturdy supports].

For practicality, I believe the Intrepid-class design of USS Voyager is a practical, yet beautiful, design to build.

I need to visit Vulcan, Alberta sometime.

Hmmm...

With bbailey861 as CFO...Sector 7 on Logistics and Design...Enterprise1701 on Site location and PPE Manager
And me on PR...

we got the makings of a team!!!

 

[Ithekro]

Since it is Vulcan, I'd recommend building a ring ship. Not only because it would be a "Vulcan" design, but also it might be "practical" with near-future technology.

 

[Stevil2001]

I need to visit Vulcan, Alberta sometime.

No, you really don't. My parents indulged me as a high-school kid, and we took a side trip there on a family road trip (while traveling from Banff to Glacier National Park). There's nothing worth seeing: just the model on that news paper, one of those things you stick your faces through, and a "visitor center" with a backdrop of the 1701-D bridge and some cardboard standees of Star Trek characters. The whole time we were in the town, we saw exactly one other person: the employee at the visitor center, who spent the whole time on the computer and never even acknowledged our presence. The whole thing was creepy and not worth the hour it added to our journey.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Hell ... why don't these "Vulcans" want to build a STAR TREK Academy, instead? Where - for a fee - one could learn how to make costumes, props, fan films, or even bartending and culinary inventions for the show? And across the building, on the same premises would be some version of Quark's, perhaps ... to unwind and empty whatever remains in your pockets.

 

[publiusr]

More doable would be an airship shaped like a starship. Voyager is the best design in that it is the least spindly.