From Star Trek to Star Wars: Engineer petitions White House to build Enterprise

Published time: January 05, 2013 00:19
Edited time: January 05, 2013 04:19
The flight deck of the Starship Enterprise (AFP Photo)

A human colony in space could become a reality if an engineer gets a positive response from the White House for his petition to study the possibility of building the USS Enterprise.

The proposal to the White House's official "We the People" website needs the support of 25, 000 signatures for the government to initiate a response. January 21 is the cut-off date for the proposal which asks the Obama administration to request “NASA to do a feasibility study and conceptual design of the Gen1 USS Enterprise interplanetary spaceship.”

The proposal was initiated by an engineer, AKA BTE Dan, who showcased plans for constructing an operational Enterprise on his website last year.

The engineer says a ship like the one featured on Star Trek is needed to “take the first humans to Mars while taking along a large load of base-building equipment for constructing the first permanent base there.”

BTE Dan’s website provides a more detailed plan for the “Enterprise”, a spaceship capable of reaching “Mars within 90 days of leaving earth's orbit. BTE Dan explains this could be achieved by using three “ion propulsion engines” powered by “nuclear reactors”

A diagram of the real-life starship Enterprise proposed by an engineer who says most of the technology is at hand (Image from BuildtheEnterprise.org)
A diagram of the real-life starship Enterprise proposed by an engineer who says most of the technology is at hand (Image from BuildtheEnterprise.org)

A similar post, in December, asking to finance the construction of a “Death Star” by 2016, has received 33,584 signatures, more than enough to secure a government response, although this has not yet been forthcoming.

The Death Star is envisioned to be the size of the moon as shown in the Star Wars franchise and is capable of destroying a planet with a single laser beam. "John D", the campaign's founder, insists that building a Death Star would boost the American economy and national security. 

White house is yet to respond to almost 50 petitions that have reached the popular threshold. Those awaiting official review include, legalization of marijuana use at the federal level, support for the Catalonian push for independence from Spain, and to recount the US election.

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anon (unregistered) 08.01.2013 19:07

you guy's need to know the truth. it may seem far feched, but it is true that mankind has been in space many thousands of years before the russian and nasa missions in the 1950's and 60's. our ancestors over 4 thousand years ago had space travel and flight transportation.
look up vimama = ancient anti-gravity flying craft, one was found still powered up in a cave a couple of years ago in afghanistan, another was found more recently inside an old indian temple, both have now been removed and are in a secured location both for study and to ensure that the world's population don't get to see that they do infact fly.
look up haunebu = a flying saucer type craft re-developed by the germans from ancient plans/schematics, the germans if they would have built more of them would have won the second world war hands down as they were much faster than anything the allies had.
Our ancestors also had a city on the moon, not much is left these days, some pics & video's were leaked from nasa & russian space admin.
the ancient plans/schematics came from the long lost libraries of atlantis and alexandria, the records were being carefuly looked after by the tibetan monks, hitler found this out and ordered the records be taken for study.
oh i should also say that hitler survived the war and lived out his remaining days in his hotel in south america, he died in the mid 1960's of natural causes, the person in the bunker was in fact hitler's security double, he did his job and stayed behind in the bunker running things whilst the real hitler fled on a sub to south america.
we have beaming technology, cryogenic technolog y, matter replication technology (food and supplies replicator s), free energy technologies (zero point energy), we have anti-gravimetr ic drives (boeing has the patents), we have zpm's (energy from a vaccume space) and many many more technologies which have been kept secret by our governments.
always remember that history is written in the eyes of the victor.

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SuperiorEuropean (unregistered) 06.01.2013 12:35

Unwashed, ignorant 'amercian' illiterates should stick to what they do best rather than dwelling on badly-written fantasy.

The usa is good at starting wars, impoverishing its own people and telling lies. The usa leads the world as '#1 for children who choke on cockroaches' and '#1 for adult illiteracy in a nation WITH an education system'.

Stic k to what you're good at, usa.
Leave the science up to the better people over in Europe and Asia.
You stick to making movies like GIJoe where the ICE sinking in the lake then crushes the undersea base far below it... when ice floats!

Off you go america... now go write some reply that mixes up 'then' and 'than', why don't ya?

YOUR future contains only the misery of unavoidable financial catastrophe...
I don't think building 'starships' is really on your future to-do list, usa. Paved roads and lit streetlights might be a stretch for you in 2013 onwards!

What was that, usa? I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sound of my free healthcare and the lack of school-shootings here...

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Klingon (unregistered) 06.01.2013 10:21

I pray mankind completely destroys itself on earth before infecting space and another planet. The question is not whether mankind will ignite a nuclear holocaust, but when and whether some humans manage to escape and colonise another planet. Hopefully the nuclear event will come before the beast has the opportunity to evacuate.

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