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Building an IRL Starship Enterprise
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Building an IRL Starship Enterprise

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/

Article on Universe Today

An engineer outlines the specifications of the Enterprise with current technology. His website is getting a lot of traffic--took me a long time to load it up.

Before anyone says this is ridiculous, or "Why not just start from scratch instead of using some gay design from a tv show?" you should actually browse around the site a bit, it is impressive and stuff like this is porn for me.
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RE: Building an IRL Starship Enterprise

I have never understood the attraction of star wars or star-trek
05-13-2012 03:49 AM
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RE: Building an IRL Starship Enterprise

I'm not a fan myself, but thinking about the logistics of building a futuristic object can be the foundation for the inspiration for another yet-to-be-thought-of project that will work better for us. Simply making an attempt at building such a structure will reveal problems and lead to advances in technology. But why would we do that instead of funding destruction?

I did watch it on TV occasionally when I was a kid and thought it was cool though.
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RE: Building an IRL Starship Enterprise

(05-13-2012 03:49 AM)Thought Criminal Wrote:  I have never understood the attraction of star wars

Nostalgia for people who saw it for the first time and were wowed by the special effects and story. They are good movies IMO.
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RE: Building an IRL Starship Enterprise

I'm not a fan of Star Trek, but this is still cool as fuck.
05-13-2012 04:36 AM
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This will solve all the world's problems.
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RE: Building an IRL Starship Enterprise

Star Wars>Star Trek

I sense a new thread being made.
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(05-16-2012 04:01 AM)Stadium Wrote:  Star Wars>Star Trek

I sense a new thread being made.

I personally can't choose, as I love both of them too much.
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RE: Building an IRL Starship Enterprise

The first two Star Wars movies were the only good ones. Jedi was okay but the prequels were boring. Ive never seen Star Trek.
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RE: Building an IRL Starship Enterprise

Fuck I'm not even a Star Trek freak I just love anything to do with space and spaceships in general. I'll keep an eye on this.
(01-10-2012 02:15 PM)Maelstrom Wrote:  Efs, your nihilism is beautiful.
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