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Engineer: Star Trek’s Enterprise ship could be built in 20 years at a cost of $1 trillion
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| 5/18/12
| Tecca
Posted on 05/18/2012 12:30:28 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer
The nerds are gonna go nuts.
The wine coolers will flow like a river tonight.
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:40:25 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Kartographer
Klingon D7 are al0t cheaper. Since Kronos exploded you can get them for a few latinum bars and flasks of Romulan ale.
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:42:33 PM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(If Romney needs my vote to win Mississippi, he is in a heck of a lot trouble more than me.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:42:33 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
To: Astronaut
Screw the FTL and warp drives. If they can build a working and functional copy of Six (Tricia Helfer), I’m on board and say it’s worth every penny. My wife might not appreciate it, but building one would be advancing science, right?
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:43:17 PM PDT
by
roostercashews
(A gun doesn't make you safer, but knowing how to use one does.)
To: Kartographer
Interstellar space travel is possible with 1950's tech.
Project Orion However, building it is prohibited by treaty.
To: Kartographer
Hell, makes more sense than what OBummer is whizzing away trillions on, take a chance at it, the technology learned would pay off eventually while OBummer’s stuff will never.
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:44:48 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
To: cuban leaf
We are no more capable of doing this than we are of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth by the end of the decade...
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:45:38 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1214 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
To: Red Badger
"We think we can create an effective warp drive, based on general relatively and string theory," said Gerald Cleaver With string theory, ANYTHING is possible.
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:46:05 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
To: ClearCase_guy
We have virtually none of the technology needed to build this starship. The idea is ludicrous.
Agreed.
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:46:10 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: ClearCase_guy
We could build it, but it would just sit there. The “whoosh” doors would work, the “life support systems”, lights and comfy chairs on the bridge would all be there.
Communicators, etc.
We could probably also build it in Low Earth Orbit. I’m sure SpaceX can give you a quotation for delivering material to the jobsite. Bigelow could provide jobsite dormitories & cafeterias and probably even Assembly Buildings in orbit.
Hey, maybe the new Facebook IPO billionaires need something to do with all that money.
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:46:39 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
(Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: Kartographer; KevinDavis
antimatter is available by mining the suns corona...the LHC produces it way to slow....
now all we need is the technology to be able to do all this and figure out the space warp thing
paging Dr. Alcubierre...paging Dr. Miguel Alcubierre.
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:47:30 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Astronaut
“...on the much cooler Battlestar Galactica”
You’re trying to start trouble, aren’t you?
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:47:40 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Sybeck1
The face of a future Government Contractor!
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:48:22 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: ClearCase_guy
--Beat me to it. We have virtually none of the technology needed to build this starship.--
Not true. We already have better video screens, tablets and computers.
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:49:46 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: ClearCase_guy
"We think we can create an effective warp drive, based on general relatively and string theory," said Gerald CleaverWho proofs this stuff? Maybe they're just relatively sure?
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:50:02 PM PDT
by
Hoffer Rand
(There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
To: Kartographer
that’s a much better deal than the California high-speed train...
To: Kartographer
Just load it up with some large VASIMIR engines and we could make a round trip to Alpha Centauri in 50 years.
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:53:08 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Wally_Kalbacken
Wally, my friend, you fell for it. No project comes in on time or at cost. Plus, since you are so eager to spend the money, where is the money going to come from?
In case you haven’t received the news at your space camp on whatever planet it is located, the US doesn’t have that kind of cash. We’re in a bit of a hole that is about the size of the moon and increasing daily. (On second thought, maybe it is a black hole). The US is headed for the same cliff that Greece just went off, and France, Spain, and Britain are headed there. Lemmings.
Nify idea. Not doable. So put away the check book. Just because you have checks doesn’t mean there is money in the account.
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:53:26 PM PDT
by
oneamericanvoice
(Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
To: EEGator
LOL. Just stating a fact. I’d much rather be a Viper pilot on a Colonial Battlestar, kicking Cylon ass, than some boring bland guy wearing a red shirt on the Enterprise. And I would be dating one of the Cylon 8 models (Sharon)!
To: ClearCase_guy
All you have to do is pick the right quantum leap............
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posted on
05/18/2012 12:56:01 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
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