Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise In 20 Years

Nancy_A writes "An engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous detail — building a full-sized, ion-powered version of the starship Enterprise. The ship would be based on current technology, and would take about 20 years to construct, at a cost of roughly $1 trillion. 'We have the technological reach to build the first generation of the spaceship known as the USS Enterprise – so let's do it,' writes the curator of the Build The Enterprise website, who goes by the name of BTE-Dan."

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Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive

[MacGyver2210]

which comes to about $50,000 for every man, woman, and child

Or a fair share of taxes paid for every multi-millionaire, billionaire, and corporation...

PFFFT! That's never going to happen. The rich just keep getting richer, and the poor just keep getting poorer.