Post by ShivaTD on Nov 6, 2013 13:10:30 GMT
Is there any room in this talent pool for someone that has conceived the means for manufacturing and fundamental design of a starship that would literally travel between the stars? It would be virtually self-contained with a population of about 1 million people. It could possibly require the addition of "water" gathered from space (i.e. comets and other ice forms found in space) about every 50,000 to 100,000 years.
The people living in the starship would be free of any planetary dependency and some could choose to actually evolve over time to the point that even living on a planet would be impossible as the lack of gravity by living in a micro-gravity environment although the spaceship itself would have large-radius centrifugation creating an artificial gravity.
Obviously a starship for a million people and the resources necessary is huge with its own internal "seas" and mineral resources (mostly a component of a shell housing the internal starship). The internal diameter would be several kilometers with an external diameter (mostly made of ice) would be much larger.
Generations would literally grow up without ever being near any star. Initially the speed of the starship would be quite slow but ever increasing based upon a constant ion propulsion using a yet to be developed nuclear fission generator that would provide the power for the starship.
It is also obvious that this starship would have to be built in space predominately using asteroids as the materials for construction. Actual engineering design based upon the concept and manufacture would take an estimated 100-200 years which presented both a problem as well as a solution. One important fact is that every mineral found on Earth comes from outer space so raw materials are not a problem.
The time of construction is a problem because so many people are short-sighted in their vision.
The funding of the enterprise is provided for by this long time to construct the starship prior to occupation. "Transferable Boarding Passes" can be sold from the start of the project at a much discounted price although the price would still be relatively costly for someone that would never live to actually board the starship but their heirs could because the Boarding Pass would be handed down to their descendants as a part of their estate. Initially I did rough estimated of the cost of the first Boarding Passes and assumed about $50,000 each but every year the price would go up. When the starship neared completion the cost of a boarding pass could be as high as perhaps $100 million. Some might call that high but realize that it "pays" for the living expenses of all future generations residing on the starship.
The only problem is that I figure that the government would consider it to be fraud to accept funds for something that wouldn't even exist for between 100-200 years into the future. The costs of the legal battles against the government would be a major expense that could sink the project before it even began.
A starship would provide for a near-utopian society as knowledge, both scientific and philosophical, would be the primary goal of the society.
Or perhaps this just lends itself to the writing of a science fiction novel but I'm an engineer and not a science fiction writer.
The people living in the starship would be free of any planetary dependency and some could choose to actually evolve over time to the point that even living on a planet would be impossible as the lack of gravity by living in a micro-gravity environment although the spaceship itself would have large-radius centrifugation creating an artificial gravity.
Obviously a starship for a million people and the resources necessary is huge with its own internal "seas" and mineral resources (mostly a component of a shell housing the internal starship). The internal diameter would be several kilometers with an external diameter (mostly made of ice) would be much larger.
Generations would literally grow up without ever being near any star. Initially the speed of the starship would be quite slow but ever increasing based upon a constant ion propulsion using a yet to be developed nuclear fission generator that would provide the power for the starship.
It is also obvious that this starship would have to be built in space predominately using asteroids as the materials for construction. Actual engineering design based upon the concept and manufacture would take an estimated 100-200 years which presented both a problem as well as a solution. One important fact is that every mineral found on Earth comes from outer space so raw materials are not a problem.
The time of construction is a problem because so many people are short-sighted in their vision.
The funding of the enterprise is provided for by this long time to construct the starship prior to occupation. "Transferable Boarding Passes" can be sold from the start of the project at a much discounted price although the price would still be relatively costly for someone that would never live to actually board the starship but their heirs could because the Boarding Pass would be handed down to their descendants as a part of their estate. Initially I did rough estimated of the cost of the first Boarding Passes and assumed about $50,000 each but every year the price would go up. When the starship neared completion the cost of a boarding pass could be as high as perhaps $100 million. Some might call that high but realize that it "pays" for the living expenses of all future generations residing on the starship.
The only problem is that I figure that the government would consider it to be fraud to accept funds for something that wouldn't even exist for between 100-200 years into the future. The costs of the legal battles against the government would be a major expense that could sink the project before it even began.
A starship would provide for a near-utopian society as knowledge, both scientific and philosophical, would be the primary goal of the society.
Or perhaps this just lends itself to the writing of a science fiction novel but I'm an engineer and not a science fiction writer.
