Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise In 20 Years 589
Nancy_A writes "An engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous detail — building a full-sized, ion-powered version of the starship Enterprise. The ship would be based on current technology, and would take about 20 years to construct, at a cost of roughly $1 trillion. 'We have the technological reach to build the first generation of the spaceship known as the USS Enterprise – so let's do it,' writes the curator of the Build The Enterprise website, who goes by the name of BTE-Dan."
actually... (Score:3, Funny)
screw the starship...just give me the holodeck. without the glitches preferably.
Mother of all Kickstarters (Score:5, Funny)
I smell the mother of all kickstarters launching in 5, 4, 3, 2 ...
I could not find it (Score:4, Funny)
I could not find this project on kickstarter
Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive (Score:5, Funny)
Engineer designs starship in spare time. Here's another man who needs to get laid...
Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive (Score:2, Funny)
No, that would be "engineer designs sexbot in spare time". Or perhaps a holodeck.
Re:Star ship Enterprise? (Score:1, Funny)
Kickstarter (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'd ditch the hull design first thing. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, let's build a cube.
Re:Star ship Enterprise? (Score:2, Funny)
Tar and Feather? a lot?
Re:I'd ditch the hull design first thing. (Score:5, Funny)
That's why you don't design spaceships. The Enterprise had a great design because it was aerodynamic.. one of the most important things in space.
Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive (Score:5, Funny)
"This space mission brought to you by Soylent Green. [wikipedia.org]"
As long as you're the first one to be decanted, "what could possibly go wrong?"
Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive (Score:5, Funny)
Here's another man who needs to get laid...
You say that like it's a bad thing. Chicks like to get laid too, you know?
Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive (Score:5, Funny)
I don't recommend we do what he's suggesting, especially in that form factor, but it could be done for a lot less is my point. The most likely route to big shiny spaceships is as I outlined above.
FFS! Didn't you see the movie?!? All we need to do is bolt warp drive onto an ICBM, and wait for the Vulcans to notice!
Geez, slow today or what? :-)
Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive (Score:2, Funny)
An ion drive isn't even C+. The rate of return on investment is somewhere near what "Voldemort" did for JP Morgan Chase, except 500x as big-- to start.
You're right; I heard ion drives are C#. ;)
Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive (Score:4, Funny)
That would have been funnier if I had actually bothered to login first...