Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

An enjoyable read.

In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous detail – building a full-sized, ion-powered version of the Enterprise complete with 1G of gravity on board, and says it could be done with current technology, within 20 years.

http://www.universetoday.com/95099/e...e-in-20-years/

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/

[Regulus (Trevor)]

That would be soooo cool. Don't be surprised if Richard Branson announces intentions to run with it
I'd buy tickets

Trev

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

I'll volunteer my services as an on-board Technician.
It would beat fixing machines down here on earth.
I dont think I would like to sit on top of a Nuclear Reactor though.

[Paul Haese]

I want to be in on celestial cartography and using the scopes. I volunteer for that.

Energy shielding looks odd to me too. Would the maths work on those separations and the figures listed?

[TrevorW]

Always thought it was a bad design for a starship he should build a battlestar instead

[Ric]

What a grand feat for the planet that would be, because no one country could ever afford to do it on their own.


"There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow"

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

It still wont be any good to us until Dr Cochrane invents the warp drive and does a test run in 2063. Until then it would still only be a satellite.