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**qilmuz6v** · 05-13-2012, 04:43 PM

You can recycle the vast majority of the water used pretty efficiently, it wouldn't be a huge problem - There's other much bigger ones, such as the daft idea of building a spacecraft the size & shape of the movie Enterprise. If you are going to build a spacecraft to travel around the solar system you'd use good engineering, not movie fantasy. The only reasons the Enterprise looks like it does is just for the movies, you would never build something like that in reality as it wouldn't be stiff enough and is a very poor use of materials for the volume required.

Well there are plenty who would disagree with you, and this bloke is an Engineer.

The same of course seems to exist with any proposed futuristic scenario. You'll have plenty of pro reasons why it can be done, and probably a few on the pessimistic side also...That's to be expected.
With the design being "movie fantasy", in the movie "Contact", Carl Sagan sort advice from Kip Thorne on the best method for the FTL that the film entailed....
And always remember, a lot of today's Sci/Fi, [and yesterday's] is tomorrows Sci/Fact.

05-13-2012, 04:43 PM	#9
qilmuz6v Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 518 Senior Member	You can recycle the vast majority of the water used pretty efficiently, it wouldn't be a huge problem - There's other much bigger ones, such as the daft idea of building a spacecraft the size & shape of the movie Enterprise. If you are going to build a spacecraft to travel around the solar system you'd use good engineering, not movie fantasy. The only reasons the Enterprise looks like it does is just for the movies, you would never build something like that in reality as it wouldn't be stiff enough and is a very poor use of materials for the volume required. Well there are plenty who would disagree with you, and this bloke is an Engineer. The same of course seems to exist with any proposed futuristic scenario. You'll have plenty of pro reasons why it can be done, and probably a few on the pessimistic side also...That's to be expected. With the design being "movie fantasy", in the movie "Contact", Carl Sagan sort advice from Kip Thorne on the best method for the FTL that the film entailed.... And always remember, a lot of today's Sci/Fi, [and yesterday's] is tomorrows Sci/Fact.
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