Do you think we'll start building the Enterprise in 20 or 100 year

[hh5]

buildtheenterprise.org

 

The year 2245 is just too distant — we should

build and commission a real USS Enterprise

right now, cracking the champagne across her hull within 20 years, according to an enterprising engineer. The gigantic ship would use ion propulsion, powered by a 1.5-GW nuclear reactor, and could reach Mars in three months and the moon in three days. Its 0.3-mile-diameter, magnetically suspended gravity wheel spinning at 2 RPM would provide 1G of gravity, and the thing looks just like the "Star Trek" ship of lore.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-05/build-real-starship-enterprise-make-it-so-ambitious-engineer-says

 

[Michael9344]

Wow

[Andy78]

So all we do is give this guy 1 trillion US dollars and he brings Gene Roddenberry's vision to life in only twenty years time?

 

I say what is Mr Obama waiting for

 

Can he do it? Yes he can.

[Bill W]

I say buld it and give it a crew of bigots. Let them go harrass some other species.

[Zombie]

There should be a health warning in the thread title otherwise geeks will be nerding out ...

[JamesSavik]

I say buld it and give it a crew of bigots. Let them go harrass some other species.

 

 

Noooo! We'll be extinct in no time.

 

We don't want to send the most obnoxious members of our species out into deep space no matter how tempting it seems.

 

Phred Phelps alone would start numerous interstellar wars just for being so insidiously creepy.