{"id":8834,"date":"2013-05-18T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2013-05-18T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T16:42:09","slug":"how-much-would-it-cost-to-build-the-starship-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-much-would-it-cost-to-build-the-starship-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Would It Cost to Build the Starship Enterprise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051813_1639_HowMuchWoul1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eric Limer took a look at how much it would cost to build the Starship Enterprise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limer assumes that the half-mile long enterprise is equivalent to two Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, each of which costs $6.2 billion.<\/li>\n<li>The closest thing we have to a holodeck is Microsoft&#8217;s IllumiRoom technology and the CAVE 2. Overall the closest approximation of the system we could get would cost $1.1 million.<\/li>\n<li>We need to arm our enterprise with proton torpedoes&#8230;except\u2026they haven&#8217;t really been invented yet. The UGM-133 Trident II is a nuclear tipped ballistic missile. 38 of them would cost $6 billion.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;d need at least 11 officers on deck and if you use the cost of a soldier in Iraq for a year, then you&#8217;ll have to pay them $15.4 million.<\/li>\n<li>But the biggest cost is getting all of these materials into space where presumably they&#8217;ll be assembled. Overall that would cost more than $475 billion.<\/li>\n<li>This puts the total cost of the Enterprise at just under $500 billion or\u202612.6% of America&#8217;s total budget. Time for a petition?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about other costs associated with building the Enterprise and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-much-would-it-cost-to-build-the-starship-enterprise-506174071\">here<\/a>. You can check out our own attempt at using a battleship to estimate the cost of a spaceship over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-much-would-it-cost-to-build-the-death-star\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-much-would-it-cost-to-build-the-starship-enterprise-506174071\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Limer took a look at how much it would cost to build the Starship Enterprise: Limer assumes that the half-mile long enterprise is equivalent to two Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, each of which costs $6.2 billion. The closest thing we have to a holodeck is Microsoft&#8217;s IllumiRoom technology and the CAVE 2. Overall the closest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/051813_1639_HowMuchWoul1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8836,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions\/8836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}