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Ortix
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I have always wondered that. What do we need? Other than immense political, financial and public backing, what else do we need like technological advancements? Also, the ship would be 1-2KM in length and 400-800 in width/height.
something like the spirit of fire in the Halo Universe Link
(don't hate on me for reffering to halo, since most of our technology comes from fiction.)
Here's my take:
There is absolutely no way to build it if we launch the parts with something the size of the space shuttle. It will obviously built in orbit, but it will take most probably 100 years to build it if we launch every week.
My guess would be to transport the materials with space elevators. Have several of them around the world, and then spaceships would ferry the materials to the building site in geostat orbit.
Since it's not a warship, we don't need ginormous 10 meter thick armor plating. It would probably be built in sections like a cruise ship. It would be smart to have the wiring be done on earth and then attach all the pieces together like a puzzle and the electrical wires would plug into eachother at each seperation of the hull once fitted together.
Robots would then weld the all the pieces together.
I don't know how we would pressurize this mammoth of a ship. We could have each compartment pressuzired i guess... but then you would get something that looks like the ISS which does not look like a space ship to me.
If we have a space elevator, we could funnel air from earth into the ship right? If not, then we can make O2 from the water on the moon. If THAT doesn't work, then someone should suggest another idea here.
IDK guys.. i'm just very ambitious and I want to see some advancement in space travel. We look absolutely pathetic as a space faring race now. We could have been so much further if we didn't cut funding for NASA during the apollo program.
I'm going to study Aerospace Engineering next year, and hopefully i can have some impact on whatever to boost our space faring capabilities. So that the grandchilderen of our granchildren will be able to travel to different planets in different solar systems and always look back to earth as their home.
P.S.
There is no pricetag to this thing. Paying for this thing would require a different economical system. It would cost trillions of trillions of dollars.
something like the spirit of fire in the Halo Universe Link
(don't hate on me for reffering to halo, since most of our technology comes from fiction.)
Here's my take:
There is absolutely no way to build it if we launch the parts with something the size of the space shuttle. It will obviously built in orbit, but it will take most probably 100 years to build it if we launch every week.
My guess would be to transport the materials with space elevators. Have several of them around the world, and then spaceships would ferry the materials to the building site in geostat orbit.
Since it's not a warship, we don't need ginormous 10 meter thick armor plating. It would probably be built in sections like a cruise ship. It would be smart to have the wiring be done on earth and then attach all the pieces together like a puzzle and the electrical wires would plug into eachother at each seperation of the hull once fitted together.
Robots would then weld the all the pieces together.
I don't know how we would pressurize this mammoth of a ship. We could have each compartment pressuzired i guess... but then you would get something that looks like the ISS which does not look like a space ship to me.
If we have a space elevator, we could funnel air from earth into the ship right? If not, then we can make O2 from the water on the moon. If THAT doesn't work, then someone should suggest another idea here.
IDK guys.. i'm just very ambitious and I want to see some advancement in space travel. We look absolutely pathetic as a space faring race now. We could have been so much further if we didn't cut funding for NASA during the apollo program.
I'm going to study Aerospace Engineering next year, and hopefully i can have some impact on whatever to boost our space faring capabilities. So that the grandchilderen of our granchildren will be able to travel to different planets in different solar systems and always look back to earth as their home.
P.S.
There is no pricetag to this thing. Paying for this thing would require a different economical system. It would cost trillions of trillions of dollars.