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For the price of the largest building in the world, you could possibly build the Enterprise [1]. http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/cost-mass/ http://www.buildt
by pitaj 9y ago
For the price of the largest building in the world, you could possibly build the Enterprise [1].
http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/cost-mass/ http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/cost-mass/
- adrianN 9y agoDoes that include R&D for Warp drive, transporters, etc?
- girvo 9y agoNot in their plan, they're talking pure constant acceleration for solar system wide exploring :)
- dogma1138 9y agoWith what fuel/engines exactly? we can build the enterprise right now if we wanted too, but we have no way to fuel or power it.
- pitaj 9y agoRegular old fission power and ion engines.
- dogma1138 9y agoIon thrusters will not produce enough thrust to move something that big within a single lifetime. Fission will in essence be a steam power plant on that ship since RTGs do not provide sufficient power. Ion thrusters still need fuel, so you need to store gas, to move something that big it would be one heck of a gas tank, and which point thermal nuclear propulsion might be a better choice if you are mad enough to have a full nuclear reactor in space.