Posted on 05/13/2012 12:58:02 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Website lays out detailed plans to make a Star Trek fan's dream come true
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.
"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.
This "Gen1" Enterprise could get to Mars in 90 days, to the moon in three, and "could hop from planet to planet dropping off robotic probes of all sorts en masse — rovers, special-built planes and satellites,” BTE Dan says.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
This country was never greater, then when we had a frontier.
Staying "land locked" will result in one thing, stagnation. Look around, this planet is stagnating, people have no where to dream of, no place to conquer.
Columbus wasn’t headed to the orient in order to pick up the same items that he could get at home, at 500 times the cost.
What you are proposing is no more rational at this point than colonizing Antartica, the Sahara, or the bottom of the ocean. Indeed, it is quite a bit less rational than colonizing those places, which also have water and minerals in some form, and much cheaper to get at than an aseroid.
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