An Engineer Believes That An Enterprise [Star Trek Style] Could Be Built In 20 Years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...;v=VMafReWFSfE

He has prepared a website that has content that goes into considerable detail as to how this could be achieved:

Link: BuildTheEnterprise

I bet he stole all of his ideas from Haynes...

Compared to building a Death Star, this is a bargain! :)

I was all ready to put my bid in to build it in the 'Quotes' Section as well!

$15 Billion for the design

Yeah, $983bn... Not exactly achievable in 20 years. Not to mention, using ion drives as propulsion is incredibly impractical for a ship which houses any people - acceleration is a long term thing, meaning it'd take a long time to get anywhere.

I bet they could easily save > $10B by building it in China. American labour is very expensive.