Build the Enterprise!

[Moontanman]

An engineer suggests building a space ship like the fictional Enterprise...

 

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/

[Joatmon]

An engineer suggests building a space ship like the fictional Enterprise...

 

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/

 

The link doesn't seem to work. Nevertheless - Beam me up Scotty!

 

 

 

[Moontanman]

The link doesn't seem to work. Nevertheless - Beam me up Scotty!

 

 

it worked for me, try it again.

[Joatmon]

it worked for me, try it again.

It's OK - but took quite a long time to download. I was probably impatient.

I'd still like to go on the trip so "Beam me up Scotty" still applies!

 

 

 

[Greg H.]

Considering it's currently on the front page of CNN (as alink to the Time website) it's probably being inundated with traffic.

[Moontanman]

Considering it's currently on the front page of CNN (as alink to the Time website) it's probably being inundated with traffic.

 

 

I didn't know that, i got it from a less well known source.

 

I have asserted in the past that our best prospect for exploration of the solar system was a long term voyage of a large space craft that could support several people for several years as they traveled around the solar system much like the "five year mission" of the Enterprise. My take on it was a torus shaped craft that would rotate for gravity and travel in slow energy efficient orbits and carry nuclear powered landing craft. I'm not sure a craft built to imitate Star Trek in shape as well as function is credible...

[Greg H.]

I would build something more akin to a submarine, myself. Align the decks perpendicular to the axis of acceleration and spin the whole ship for gravity.