Engineer: Star Trek’s Enterprise ship could be built in 20 years at a cost of $1 trillion

Yahoo News-YTech ^ | 5/18/12 | Tecca

[Smedley]

“And I would be dating one of the Cylon 8 models (Sharon)!”

Only one?

[Kartographer]

"We haven’t even invented Jefferies Tubes yet..."

Keep up with the times man! Jefferies Tube have been around for years!

[socal_parrot]

I sign on as long as I don’t get a red uniform.

[yarddog]

Of all the impossible things they do on Star Trek, one of the most unlikely is the transporter beam. Next is time travel. I don’t care if Einstein or whoever says it is possible, it isn’t.

From reading the Bible it seems to me that God does not even have the ability to time travel. God just decides what will occur in the future and makes it happen. At least that is my guess.

On the other hand God does not say, I was, or I shall be, He says “I am”.

[jjotto]

Or maybe, with God, all possibilities ‘happen’ or exist at once and there is only time from our perspective.

Replicators and wrap drive couldn’t be produced, even for a trillion dollars.

[Secret Agent Man]

Let me be the first to rebuke this nutbag with a resounding “NO, it can’t.”

[Vaquero]

Keep up with the times man! Jefferies Tube have been around for years

Richard Gere has been ‘using’ one for years!

[catfish1957]

Hey Whoopi Goldberg could reprise her role and go first.

[catfish1957]

I am disappointed that the Cherry 2000 model is 12 year late. :)

[ozzymandus]

Great advice. I’ll run out and invent that warp drive today.

[null and void]

Replicators and wrap drive couldn’t be produced, even for a trillion dollars.

You really should check out all the additive manufacturing techniques available today. They are clearly proto-replicators.

[null and void]

Great advice. I’ll run out and invent that warp drive today.

Please do...

[ozzymandus]

I guess I’ll have to, since you haven’t done it.

[no-to-illegals]

my apology ... and it is nice to be on the same page with you.

[Sirius Lee]

He was really smart, but not that smart.

He wasn't 'Jeopardy' smart.

With the advent of AI it is possible to build DNA arks piloted and crewed by robots that can go out and explore our neck of the galaxy to explore the "Goldilocks Zone" planets we are just now discovering. We will find dozens of earthlike planets - earthmass, watery, temperate - in the next few years, guaranteed.

In that time robotics and AI will have advanced to the point where we could start launching these arks with slow accel ion drives.

We might not hear back from these arks in many hundreds or even thousands of years, but within a few million years we will have seeded the planets.

We can even give the AI the prime directive so that it skips planets with life that is more evolved than, say, bacteria or single celled organisms.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kartographer. This isn't news, all these breakthroughs have been made, we're just waiting for Kirk and the gang to arrive from the future.

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[6SJ7]

Did everyone notice the nextel chirp was remarkably similar to the original communicators’?

How about the original Motorola StarTAC phones? StarTAC sure sounds a lot like Star Trek!

[onedoug]

"I reach this starship jazz, Herbert."

[Condor51]

Engineer: Star Trek’s Enterprise ship could be built in 20 years at a cost of $1 trillion
Created by a systems and electrical engineer ...

Okay I stopped right there. As technically speaking - It's Bulls*t. It can't be built in 20 years or likely 'ever' (and ever is a long time).

Note that no Physicists or Mechanical Engineers are involved. Just a computer geek (Systems Eng'r) and a guy with a degree (Elec Engineering) that makes him qualified to design electrical systems (power wiring) for your house. The fact is that E=mc² makes building any 'starship' impossible. Not improbable, unlikely, or 'maybe someday' -- but impossible.

And that's, that.