American engineer reveals ambitious, if the proposal impractical to build the spacecraft from the original series of Star Trek more than two decades

At the time, the original Star Trek series has inspired many inventions: the flip-open mobile phone (based on the communicators of the crew), the medical diagnosis of pocket (depending their tricorder) - but now an engineer of 30 years standing said, you must go through and build the starship Enterprise.

The cost? One billion dollars (£ 648bn) - but if the spread of more than 20 years, said that "Dan", who proposed the idea, which would cost only 0.27% of U.S. GDP, or about half of this the Apollo project in the 1960s.

"Just look at the number of young people were encouraged to study engineering in the character of Scotty on Star Trek," he wrote in the buildtheenterprise.org website, created to promote the idea. "Well, I bet that many young people will be inspired if you really built the first generation of ship / Scotty /."

"Dan", admits he is actually the power chain dilithium drove faster than light photon torpedo ship Galaxy class support, captained by James T. Kirk. He writes: "Star Trek adventure in ships NCC-1701-x to business conducted from the year 2245 Today the technology is not only to build a spaceship, which will have to wait a Gen4 boat or later. ".

But he still thinks he could build a spacecraft that would be interesting and useful as large as fiction, but with some differences. It would have a floor of 1.5 gigawatts of nuclear energy instead of dilithium crystals, artificial gravity in their crew quarters saucer-shaped generated by the rotation of a part of it (a little as in 2001: A Space Odyssey), and one-ring against rotation to stabilize the vessel, may be filled with water or propellant.

Instead, he thinks: "As the second decade of the 21st century rolls - is not the time to expect something much bigger in our human activities in the space is not it time for something that will? really inspire us again while at the same time, ultimately to give humanity a lasting presence, permanent space

ambitious - but Peter Bond, Director of Space Systems and Industry Jane, and a defender of the most ambitious space programs, he thinks that will not fly politically, "The current budget for NASA is about 0.1% of U.S. GDP, so it would double or triple that, and with the political situation and the budget of the United States does not think it will happen. "
Bond said that while "it's an excellent idea, fun", it would be possible only if other countries can be brought to board - as with the International Space Station . "Maybe if they came to China, India, Japan and everyone on board who could afford it," he said.

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