So you wish to body the Enterprise. Don't we all! Able-bodied acceptable news: according to some quick, messy, napkin math, it's possible. Affectionate of. The bad news? It's traveling to be brainless expensive. But not unfathomably so! Alpha scrounging up your space-pennies.
One little constraintSince we can't adumbrate the future, or even appear abutting to appraisal the amount of development for advocate new inventions or substances like bastardize and actuation drives, shields, and teleporters, we're traveling to stick to what we know. It ability not accomplish us a absolute Enterprise, but it's about as abutting as you're traveling to get.
So area do we start?First we accept to aces our Enterprise. Obviously, with Star Trek: Into Darkness advancing out, we're traveling to go with the one from that universe, from a admeasurement angle anyway. According to some stats we got aback if the aboriginal Star Trek reboot came out a few years ago, we apperceive the new Enterprise—or as the Star Trek wiki calls it: USS Enterprise (Alternate Reality)—is 725.35 meters, 2379.76 feet, or almost bisected a mile long. So, huge. And while the exact abstracts vary, other sources accord us a acme of 625 feet, and a saucer bore of 1,000 feet. She's a big girl.
How Big Is the New Enterprise Compared to the Old One? How Big Is the New Enterprise Compared to the Old One? How Big Is the New Enterprise Compared to the Old725.35 meters. A whoppumental 2,379.75 feet. That's how big the new super-sized Enterprise is. … Apprehend added Read more
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Raw materialsThe abutting affair we accept to analyze this to in the absolute apple is apparently a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. The new Gerald R. Ford-class suckers will be bigger and added expensive, but we haven't accomplished one of those yet, so we'll stick with a Nimitz-class, accurately the George H.W. Bush, the a lot of recent—and last—of the Nimitz breed.
Photo by: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Hall/US Navy
At 1,092 anxiety long, the GHWB comes in at just beneath bisected the breadth of the Enterprise. And with a 252 bottom advanced flight deck, it's a fair bit thinner. But there's a lot of abandoned amplitude in the Enterprise, admitting aircraft carriers are added like solid chunks. Accepting absolutely specific with a starship's absolute aggregate would absorb some annoyingly absolute algebraic and abstracts we don't have, but we can cautiously accept it would yield about two GHWBs-worth of actual to body a appropriately sized, Enterprise-shaped animal if you amplitude it all out. Accomplish it air-tight and we'll alarm it a spaceship.
Unlike the Nimitz-class cruisers afore it, which amount about $4.5 billion, the GWHB amount added like $6.2 billion acknowledgment to avant-garde day perks, and we charge two. And we're just accepting broiled up.
Running Total: $12,400,000,000
Some accumulation required
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According to the aboriginal JJ Abrams Star Trek film, the specific Enterprise we're talking about actuality was congenital in Iowa. We'll accept it's accepting the ISS treatment: Body it on Earth as a alternation of trivially sized modules that get accumulated in orbit.
This is area the absolute amount comes in. If we go by the numbers from SpaceX, the Falcon Heavy can carriage accepting to amplitude for the low, low amount of about $1,000 per pound. A GHWB account of accepting weighs about 114,000 abbreviate tons. So a brace of them are 228,000 abbreviate tons, or 456 actor pounds. Multiply that by $1,000 dollars per batter and... Yeah. We're talking $456 billion just to get this into orbit, or $468.4 billion for an Enterprise-shaped amplitude station, total. And that's not including labor.
That's a lot of alarming zeros, but absolutely it's not too too bad. This year, the United States defense absolute account amount was $3.803 trillion. So it's not like we don't accept the cash.
Construction amount (ex-labor): $456,000,000,000
Running Total: $468,400,000,000
Tea, Earl Grey, hotNow that we've got our big, ample carapace assembled, it's about time that we alpha bushing it up with some alarming tech. One of the (many) iconic technologies in the Star Trek cosmos is the all-over replicator, authoritative annoying things like blockage fed a section of cake. Sometimes literally. We don't accept annihilation abutting to the affectionate of build-anything-from-anything replicators from the series, but we do accept something alleged the Replicator. The Replicator 2, as a amount of fact. Even better.
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While MakerBot's Replicator 2 is arch 3D-printing tech actuality on Earth, the anticipation of outfitting our enormous, awfully badass Enterprise with just one seems absurdly bargain and lame. That accepting the case, let's set it up with a apartment of 50 and just pretend we've got 5 that are 10 times the size. One MakerBot Replicator 2 retails for a bald $2,200, so we're talking an accretion amount of (a still scant) $110,000. We charge accepting to book with too, though. Let's say 45 kilograms (100 pounds) of plastic, different colors. MakerBot artificial is $48 to the kilo, so that's $112,160 in printers and ink.
The shipment weight of anniversary Replicator 2 is 37 pounds, or 1850 pounds total, added our 100 pounds of artificial which brings us to 1950 pounds. Launch that into amplitude ($195,000) and now we're talking.
We looked into ciphering the amount of something like one of Organovo's crazy Bio-Printers, but they couldn't advice us out with any affectionate of amount apropos amount or weight, so we had to leave it out.
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Total Replicator Cost: $307,160
Running Total: $468,400,307,160
Hit the (Holo)deckMicrosoft has a able little calm holodeck on the way with its IllumiRoom tech, but while that'd be abundant in your active room, we can apparently bounce for something a little adherent on our Enterprise. How about the CAVE 2, complete with 320 degree, across-the-board 3D LCD display?
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This isn't absolutely a retail product, so we'll accept to section calm the amount (and weight) in ample strokes. The awesome curved, 3D TV we saw at CES has afresh been priced at about $14,000 and we'll charge 72 for a absolute of $1,008,000 in TVs. We aswell charge 36 "high achievement PCs," that are maybe $3,000 a piece? And aswell a bureaucracy of 10 motion tracking cameras that we'll just say costs about $10,000. We wind up at $1,126,000 for procurement.
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After a little atramentous abracadabra involving shipment weights and wild estimation, we can assumption that this rig weighs about about 5,378 pounds. As for software development, well, you're you're traveling to accept to affairs you own games. Sorry.
Holodeck cost: $6,504,000
Running Total: $468,406,811,160
Fire photon torpedoes!But absolutely that's alone bisected the battle. Or absolutely it's none of the battle; this affair can't shoot yet. The GHWB already had some accoutrements that are apparently on our Enterprise now, but they are chichi Earth-weapons. We charge photon torpedos and phaser arrays.
When it comes to photon torpedos—well, we don't accept photon torpedos. But appropriate nukes assume appealing close, finer in missile form. The UGM-133 Trident II is a modern-day ballistic missile that can bedrock a nuclear warhead. And, it can be launched from a abysmal which agency it's appealing abundant a torpedo, right? Kinda? Sorta? Regardless, it seems like it could be beggared to—and accursed from—a spaceship just fine.
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It's appealing cryptic how abounding photon torpedoes the Enterprise—specifically the reboot Enterprise—has, but we apperceive the USS Voyager was advised accurately for accurate missions and had 38, so that seems like a fair bald minimum. Anniversary Trident II costs $30.9 actor to make, and weighs 129,000 pounds. So that agency the amount of affairs one "photon torpedo" and accepting it into amplitude is $159,900,000. The accomplished kit of 38 will amount us $6,076,200,000.
Photon Abate Cost: $6,076,200,000
Running Total: $474,483,011,160
Don't appearance me, broAnd of course, what would any acceptable Enterprise be after its phasers? The Enterprise is said to accept six phaser banks and fortunately, the Navy has some lasers that would be a appropriate substitute.
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The Navy's LaWS arrangement amount $40 actor to advance and build, so we'll peg the sticker amount at maybe $15 actor per unit, for a absolute amount of $90 actor for all six. The Navy's been tight-lipped about how abundant they counterbalance though, so we'll accept to cull something really capricious out of the air and say anniversary is about as abundant as a radar-guided Phalanx machine-gun bank just because that looks affectionate of similar-ish. So that's 13,600 pounds each, or 81,600 pounds of accessory (total) to bang into space.
Phaser Bank Cost: $171,600,000
Running Total: $474,654,611,160
Man UpAnd what acceptable is any of this if the address is a apparition town? While it's technically not a amount of architecture the Enterprise per se, we'd be behindhand if we didn't at atomic briefly accede the amount of manning this beast. Who knows absolutely how abounding humans man the Enterprise, including all the (hundreds of?) low-level nobodies, so we'll just set it up with a skeleton command crew.
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Going by a account of notable aggregation members, we can amount we need—at minimum—11 humans on this thing. Luckily for us, a contempo acceding amid NASA and Russia pinpoints the amount of flight-training a 'naut and cutting him/her into the abundant abandoned at $70.7 million. So bold our cadets already apperceive how to do their jobs, and alone charge a little space-training, that gives us a busline amount of $777,700,000
Of course, you aswell accept to pay these guys and accumulate them alive. Contempo estimates put the amount of befitting a soldier in Iraq for a year at amid $850,000 and $1.4 million, so let's go with the college end of that spectrum back we're talking alone about officiers and they are aswell traveling to space. That nets us a $15,400,000 added cadre cost.
Lastly, they've got to be fed and watered and whatnot. In 2008, NASA awarded a almost $3.5 billion dollar contract to SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corp to accomplish that actual aforementioned job of ferrying cargo, except to the ISS. That seems like a absolute appraisal so let's just abduct that broad as our accumulation cost.
Personnel and accumulation cost: $4,293,100,000
Running Total: $478,947,711,160
To angrily go...nowhereNow that our Enterprise can avert itself, the alone anticipate larboard is to accomplish it move. Unfortunately, that's appealing absurd beneath even the vaguest accuracy constraint. Bastardize drives, while they are accepting researched, aren't abutting to existing. And actuation drives—essentially admixture rockets—aren't abundant closer; we almost had a fission rocket once, but it got mothballed.
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More recently, there's aswell been altercation of an actuation drive that could in fact run on something stunningly like dilithium crystals: deuterium (a abiding isotope of hydrogen) and Li6 (a abiding isotope of lithium). This engine doesn't abide yet though. And it'd acceptable crave some actual aerial orbital-construction that we can't absolutely drudge yet.
That accepting said, we're traveling to accept to alarm it quits here, with our weaponized, Enterprise-shaped space-station, which is appealing abuse air-conditioned in its own right.
Grand Total: $478,947,711,160 (Or: 12.59 percent of 2013 US Defense expenditure absolute budget)
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