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Offline Rocket Science

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The Enterprise-D is Insanely Huge
« on: 12/21/2019 07:58 pm »
This showed up in my viewing suggestions and seemed like fun, enjoy! :)
« Last Edit: 01/28/2023 06:19 pm by zubenelgenubi »
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Offline Vahe231991

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Re: The Enterprise is Insanely Huge
« Reply #1 on: 01/28/2023 04:26 pm »
Not only is the Enterprise from Star Trek truly gigantic, measuring 947 feet long, 417 feet wide, and 238 feet high, it weighs 210,000 tons (420,000,000 pounds), according to Robinson and Riley (2010). By realistic standards, the Starship and unbuilt Sea Dragon project from the early 1960s are taller than the Enterprise spaceship. Add to that the fact that anyone who contemplates designing a spaceship able to travel at the speed of light like the Enterprise will be in for a rude awakening when learning that Albert Einstein's theory of relativity says that time slows everything down.

Robinson, B., and Riley, M., 2010. Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual. Haynes Manuals, Gallery Books,.

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Re: The Enterprise is Insanely Huge
« Reply #2 on: 01/28/2023 04:51 pm »
Sure is easier if you guys specified WHICH Enterprise :) Original, Refit, A,B,C,D,E, "Kelvin"  Ughh Kelvin. Also star trek warp travel isn't moving the ship faster then light so there is no time displacement. Interestingly impulse engines do have to deal with this, and some of the books touch on this.

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Re: The Enterprise is Insanely Huge
« Reply #3 on: 01/28/2023 05:02 pm »
Sure is easier if you guys specified WHICH Enterprise :)

Maybe you can look at the picture.

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Re: The Enterprise-D is Insanely Huge
« Reply #4 on: 01/29/2023 02:05 pm »
As big as the Enterprise-D is, there are even bigger ships named Enterprise out there.

 

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