Engineer: Star Trek’s Enterprise ship could be built in 20 years at a cost of $1 trillion

Yahoo News-YTech ^ | 5/18/12 | Tecca

[Kartographer]

Whether you're a Trekkie or not, you have to admit that there's some sense of wonder toexploring the stars and trying to find life on distant planets. Of course, the U.S.S. Enterprise is a fictional ship, but have you ever put in the thought as to what it would take to actually build it, and when we could get it done if we really put in the effort? The man behind the well-researched site buildtheenterprise.org has, and he's determined that a fully functional Enterprise is only 20 years away if we put in the effort.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Put all liberals on it, give it enough fuel to hit max range, and...

[Hodar]

Yeah? Hows that warp drive coming along? Is the transporter room up and running yet?

First things first ... we've mastered the Mini-skirt.

[Izzy Dunne]

Why don’t they invent the part about not needing money, first?

[Colonel_Flagg]

Not true. We already have better video screens, tablets and computers.

Yeah, but you'd never get female crew members to wear those short little skirts.

[Kartographer]

"Put all liberals on it, give it enough fuel to hit max range, and..."

Hit the self-distruct?

[A message]

I’m sorry this will not be possible as the EPA has banned all mining of Dilithium Crystals.

[oneamericanvoice]

Sorry captain, but we donna have dilithium crystals, nor the cash to make the ship. We’re a wee bit strapped.

[GSWarrior]

[blueunicorn6]

Her skirt’s so short, you can almost see her phaser. I think it’s set to “stun”.

[cuban leaf]

—We are no more capable of doing this than we are of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth by the end of the decade...—

We already had the technology. It was a matter of putting the pieces together. Henry Ford also wanted his engineers to produce a V8 and they said it couldn’t be done. But they did it.

This is many more levels of magnitude more difficult.

IOW, it is like telling Galileo that you want him to design a system capable of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth by the end of the decade. He was really smart, but not that smart.

[sauropod]

Now that’s a stimulus project I might get behind!

[SgtHooper]

No place to plug it in upere!!

[Kartographer]

Yeah, but I know a guy.....

[wbill]

She can stun my beeber any time she’d like.

[MrB]

The transporter was “invented” because the writers couldn’t figure out how they were going to land such a goofy looking ship.

[EEGator]

Since you put it that way. :)

[stylin19a]

this thing costs less than obamacare over 20 years ?

i’m in. !

[MrB]

“communicators” => nextel phones.

Did everyone notice the nextel chirp was remarkably similar to the original communicators’?

[massgopguy]

Poor Jupiter 2. A friend of mine told me he saw it at the end of a really hokey soft porn movie.

[MrB]

she’ll put your eye out!