A Real Starship Enterprise!
All the Star Trek I’ve watched told me one simple yet sad fact: the first USS Enterprise would be built in 2245 (or 2151 if you go by crappy Enterprise canon). However, an american engineer has come up with an extremely elaborate proposal to built a real, working NCC-1701, powered by ion propulsion. The 536-meter-diameter saucer section even houses a centrifugal living space to provide 1G of gravity for its occupants. And here’s the real kicker - according to him, it could be done in the next 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 , who calls himself BTE (BuildTheEnterprise) Dan. He envisions this starship Enterprise as a solar-system roamer, dropping off space probes, rovers and satellites as it does fly-bys of astronomical bodies. The ship can travel to Mars in 3 months (90 days), and can reach the...