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  • Spaceship Enterprise in 20 years? Beam me up!

    05/13/2012 12:58:02 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 22 replies
    MSNBC | Universe Today ^ | 5/12/12 | Nancy Atkinson
    Website lays out detailed plans to make a Star Trek fan's dream come trueIn 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,...