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**cristmiff** · 05-15-2012, 01:53 PM

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.

And we could also very likely get two Aerospace Engineers with opposing views on this matter, and that's the point.
It would be extremely difficult to do. No one has ever said otherwise...
It would probably take a decade just for planning as I recall BTE Dan has already said, and probably another decade or two to construct...
But what a vision for mankind if we undertook such a venture!
I'm not technically minded enough to really critique such a venture adequately, so once again I say to all those that question it, to take your worries and concerns and perceived difficulties and impossibilites to BTE Dan's site and pop the questions there.

I remain positive that such a venture could be undertaken, but not solely as put by BTE Dan.
He sees it as an American/NASA venture....I see it as an international venture from planet Earth

He sees it as a replica of the Star Trek Enterprise with some variations to align with todays technology [see his web site for those differences] I'm not too concerned how far we venture from the original Star Trek design, and see it more of a generation type ship which may or may not be a replica of the Star Trek Enterprise.

People throughout history have bagged large scale ventures...Our own Snowy Mountains project had plenty of opposition right through the planning stages until construction was completed.
Who said "you can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time"

The chances of this taking off are slim to near zero.
The point is it's an imaginative innovative idea that should be thought on.
We are going to get to Mars one day...
We will have a base on the Moon one day...
We'll leave our solar system one day....

I just agree that it would be better to start now.
But I'm greedy...I want this to happen in my life time before I kick the bucket. hehehe

05-15-2012, 01:53 PM	#89
cristmiff Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 561 Senior Member	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. And we could also very likely get two Aerospace Engineers with opposing views on this matter, and that's the point. It would be extremely difficult to do. No one has ever said otherwise... It would probably take a decade just for planning as I recall BTE Dan has already said, and probably another decade or two to construct... But what a vision for mankind if we undertook such a venture! I'm not technically minded enough to really critique such a venture adequately, so once again I say to all those that question it, to take your worries and concerns and perceived difficulties and impossibilites to BTE Dan's site and pop the questions there. I remain positive that such a venture could be undertaken, but not solely as put by BTE Dan. He sees it as an American/NASA venture....I see it as an international venture from planet Earth He sees it as a replica of the Star Trek Enterprise with some variations to align with todays technology [see his web site for those differences] I'm not too concerned how far we venture from the original Star Trek design, and see it more of a generation type ship which may or may not be a replica of the Star Trek Enterprise. People throughout history have bagged large scale ventures...Our own Snowy Mountains project had plenty of opposition right through the planning stages until construction was completed. Who said "you can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time" The chances of this taking off are slim to near zero. The point is it's an imaginative innovative idea that should be thought on. We are going to get to Mars one day... We will have a base on the Moon one day... We'll leave our solar system one day.... I just agree that it would be better to start now. But I'm greedy...I want this to happen in my life time before I kick the bucket. hehehe
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