DocM Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Cool & fun website about how current and near-future techs could be used to build an Enterprise-like vessel. It utilizes a gravity wheel/centrifuge in the saucer section, reactors in the nacelles and engineering section, ion/plasma drive, the current and near-future generations of laser weaponry, etc. etc. http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/ About The BuildTheEnterprise (BTE) website describes how to build the first USS Enterprise spaceship, based on technologies within our reach, over the next twenty years. You read that right. It?s possible for the United States of America to build the first generation of USS Enterprise given the national will to do so. But before digging into how to design and build this ship, you may first want to consider Our Space Problem and how this leads to Visions of Enterprise. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1076787-build-the-uss-enterprise-in-20-years/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
singularity87 Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Well I seriously doubt the credibility of their claims. But even if an Enterprise equivalent vessel could be built in such a timescale - it's highly unlikely that trying to make it actually look like the ship on the TV show is an efficient way to go about it in reality (maybe it makes other suggestions - I didn't read it in any detail). Quite possibly it's a joke web site, but if so the wording is way too serious - I worry for the authors . . . Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1076787-build-the-uss-enterprise-in-20-years/#findComment-594860639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas-c Veteran Posted May 12, 2012 Veteran Share Posted May 12, 2012 Technology wise it may be 110% possible within the next 20 years to build something similar however it isn't practical yet cost wise or need. Depending how the Commerical space race plays out over the next few years may depend if countries start their own space arms race or something similar. Still a cool idea to say the least. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1076787-build-the-uss-enterprise-in-20-years/#findComment-594860641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiverCampher Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Good luck at getting 84822 tons of mass+ of the ground. That thing isn't going anywhere! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1076787-build-the-uss-enterprise-in-20-years/#findComment-594860647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 I'd rather have the Battlestar Galactica. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1076787-build-the-uss-enterprise-in-20-years/#findComment-594860651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted May 12, 2012 Author Share Posted May 12, 2012 Good luck at getting 84822 tons of mass+ of the ground. That thing isn't going anywhere! Who says it has to mass that high, or that it has to be built on Earth? Several new-space companies, and NASA, are building spacecraft - many to be manned - that are built out of lightweight composites, and on-orbit assembly certainly worked fine for ISS. Now consider that the ISS assembly was done using (mostly) the Shuttle which could only loft 24 metric tons. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy will loft ~53 metric tons, the NASA Space Launch System 70-130 metric tons, and SpaceX has hinted strongly at a Super-Heavy rocket family that would have to max out at nearly 200 metric tons. Then there is NASA's own NAUTILUS-X proposal (PDF) - each of those Bigelow-style expandable habitats is about 20 metric tons. The hexagons are lander & pod bays, and the engine would be a nuclear reactor powered plasma drive. The donut is a gravity centrifuge build leveraging Bigelow's expandable tech, and step one would be testing a sub-scale centrifuge at ISS.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1076787-build-the-uss-enterprise-in-20-years/#findComment-594860667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted May 12, 2012 Member Share Posted May 12, 2012 I'd rather have the Battlestar Galactica. To me it's not as elegant as the Enterprise. However, in a fight I'd probably rather have it too. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1076787-build-the-uss-enterprise-in-20-years/#findComment-594860707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 i love the Nautilus X! and i wouldn't build something like the Enterprise, ridiculous. we need something like the ISV Venture Star from Avatar, we can build her right now but she'll prob cost close to a trillion dollars all things considered, so obviously that's a no-go right there. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1076787-build-the-uss-enterprise-in-20-years/#findComment-594874001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
threetonesun Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Oh, Elevators! Fancy! You'd have to build it in space. You'd also need a support network, or else it would just be a one way death-ship. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1076787-build-the-uss-enterprise-in-20-years/#findComment-594874007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 we have the tech to do all of these things. we have the tech to build a friggin space hook and a fleet of near light speed ships. of course we'd have to mortgage the global economy for the next fifty years to do all that, but we still can. i'm not being cynical, it's great that people are pushing for more achievements. i personally don't expect starships right now, i'd be happy with full scale orbital human presence, and significant manned exploration/settlement of the moon, Mars, and a few asteroids. for the next generation or two that would be more than enough. interstellar can wait till next century, i have no problem with that. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1076787-build-the-uss-enterprise-in-20-years/#findComment-594875247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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