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**masaredera** · 05-14-2012, 06:53 AM

The website includes a blog, a forum and a Q&A section, where BTE Dan answers the question, “What if someone can prove that building the Gen1 Enterprise is beyond our technological reach?”

Answer: “If someone can convince me that it is not technically possible (ignoring political and funding issues), then I will state on the BuildTheEnterprise site that I have been found to be wrong. In that case, building the first Enterprise will have to wait for, say, another half century. But I don’t think that anyone will be able to convince me it can’t be done. My position is that we can – and should – immediately start working on it.” It's probably worth nothing that the burden of proof is typically borne by the person making the statement, not the other way around. It's also worth noting that conceptual designs are not detailed engineering plans.

Now I'm no aerospace engineer but I can see some pretty serious issues with building a spaceship in the likeness of the Enterprise... seems to me to be the mutterings of a die-hard Star Trek fan rather than rational engineering.

05-14-2012, 06:53 AM	#87
masaredera Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 505 Senior Member	The website includes a blog, a forum and a Q&A section, where BTE Dan answers the question, “What if someone can prove that building the Gen1 Enterprise is beyond our technological reach?” Answer: “If someone can convince me that it is not technically possible (ignoring political and funding issues), then I will state on the BuildTheEnterprise site that I have been found to be wrong. In that case, building the first Enterprise will have to wait for, say, another half century. But I don’t think that anyone will be able to convince me it can’t be done. My position is that we can – and should – immediately start working on it.” It's probably worth nothing that the burden of proof is typically borne by the person making the statement, not the other way around. It's also worth noting that conceptual designs are not detailed engineering plans. Now I'm no aerospace engineer but I can see some pretty serious issues with building a spaceship in the likeness of the Enterprise... seems to me to be the mutterings of a die-hard Star Trek fan rather than rational engineering.
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