Small Steps Forward Matter
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In the last post I talked about the steps in time order for building the Gen1 Enterprise during its second decade of development. But why does that matter at this point?
I know that many people would like to see this whole BuildTheEnterprise venture take off more quickly. Well, one aspect of moving the ball forward will be to gradually get space technical experts involved. As long as many see the BuildTheEnterprise ideas as too speculative for their tastes, they won’t get involved. A key to getting them interested over time is to continuously improve and advance the technology story behind how the Enterprise is possible, and how it can be built. True, many will still be skeptical because of the politics for NASA funding, or the challenges to private funding, but a first and important hurdle to overcome is to gradually get more experts on board. In the long run - no experts, no Enterprise.
So this is why I do posts like the last post. The point of the last post is that an elaborate shipyard structure is not needed in space like is often shown for constructing the Enterprise. This matters because it simplifies things – you build the first central compartments of the ship (the Storm Shelter) and then just start attaching more parts to this section until over time the entire ship is built. This makes the whole idea of building the Enterprise just a tad more plausible.
Continuously needed are more advances to the technical story behind building the Enterprise, however small, to show how the ship is ever more plausible.
http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/
2012-08-06 21:57:56
Source: http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/small-steps-forward-matter
