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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsStar Trek’s Enterprise ship could be built in 20 years at a cost of... $1... (Yahoo headline)
Guess they couldn't fit in the the word "trillion" because of space taken up by the periods.
Here's a link to the article with the real headline.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/engineer-star-trek-enterprise-ship-could-built-20-173540774.html
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)If we didn't have our current House of Reps.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)when people pull numbers out of their ass and pass those numbers off as predictions of the cost of developing completely speculative technologies.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Bruce Wayne
(692 posts)And then they have a Trekgasm
Kaleva
(36,384 posts)intaglio
(8,170 posts)TNG 1000 crew means that the ship can be traced by the trail of detritus
Kaleva
(36,384 posts)guardian
(2,282 posts)Though I suspect it bump up your monthly electric bill quite a bit.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)which IIRC requires keeping a fairly significant quantity of anti-matter in close proximity to a significant quantity of matter without blowing everything to sub-atomic particles in the process.
Kaleva
(36,384 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Denninmi
(6,581 posts)Good God, man, you an buy anything on line these days. Anything.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)pink-o
(4,056 posts)Don't they have anti-matter stored in hermetically sealed chambers, or is that just what the novelists believe?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Denninmi
(6,581 posts)because, you can just replicate the cash you just dropped on them.
Kaleva
(36,384 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)The US used chimps...