MAY 16, 2012 | By Kevin Parrish - Source : BuildTheEnterprise

Full-Scale USS Enterprise Will Take $1 Trillion to Build

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An anonymous engineer has figured out how to build a real USS Enterprise that could trek toMars in 90 days.

An anonymous electrical and systems engineer -- we'll call him Scotty -- has determined that by using today's technology, it would take $1 trillion and 20 years to build a working USS Enterprise that could travel to Mars in 90 days. Even more, the saucer would support 1g of gravity so that the crew wouldn't float around and banging heads. Its length from the front of the saucer to the rear tip of the nacelles would be 960 meters -- twice as long as the former World Trade Center towers were tall.

"The Gen1 Enterprise will be powered by three ion propulsion engines," Scotty writes on his dedicated website, BuildTheEnterprise. "These will provide constant acceleration, and versions of this technology are already used in spacecrafts. These engines are powered by electricity, and thus using nuclear reactors to generate this electricity is a natural fit."

According to his diagram, the ship will come packed with a laser mounted in or near the dome located at the bottom center of the saucer hull. The laser output power goal will be 100MW which could be sustained for at least one minute. This laser, the most powerful ever that could achieve a sustained output, would be powered by the electricity generated by the main 1.5GWe nuclear reactor mounted in the main body of the ship. But there's a drawback to using this proposed weapon.

"When the laser is on at full power, the main engine must be shut down since there is not enough electrical power generated by the main reactor to power both the laser and the main engine," he writes. "The laser will generate a lot of waste heat since the process of converting electrical power into light power is not 100% efficient. The aluminum outer surface covering the hulls of the Enterprise will act as a radiator to radiate heat into space and prevent the ship and the laser itself from overheating while the laser is on."

The engineer's diagram shows that the spaceship will have three primary ion propulsion-type engines (or ion thrusters): the main engine which will eject "thrust" out the former shuttle bay opening, and an auxiliary engine in each nacelle. "The thrust created by an ion propulsion engine is very small compared to conventional chemical rockets, but these engines have a very highspecific impulse, meaning they use propellant very efficiency," he explains. "This high propellant efficiency is achieved by accelerating the propellant to very high speeds."

The saucer will be where the crew will live and perform their duties. It will be 1500 feet in diameter (.28 miles) and 75 feet thick around the perimeter -- near the center of the saucer hull it grows to 300 feet thick. It will also house a magnetically suspended gravity wheel that will be sealed in a donut-shaped cavity lined around the interior perimeter. It will generate 1g of gravity inside the interconnected pods that make up the gravity wheel, but all other locations inside the ship will not have gravity.

Compared to the fictional Enterprise ships, the proposed real-world version is somewhat bigger -- the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-D was 642.51 meters. There are a number of reasons for this: it needs to house a gravity wheel large enough in diameter so that the gravity seems reasonably Earth-like. It needs to be a hybrid, serving as a spaceship, a space port and a space stationsupporting up to 1000 crew members at any time (the 1701-D supported up to 6,000). It also needs plenty of cargo room to haul probes, landers, and base-building equipment to Mars and elsewhere.

"Simply put, if we want to get serious about establishing a permanent human presence in space, with robust and sustainable capabilities to do big things up there, we need a big ship," Scotty writes.

Out of the twenty-year construction timeframe, nine will be dedicated to research while the remaining eleven will be actual development including hauling the parts into space, piecing it all together, testing the systems and performing a trial run to the moon in three days. And given that it won't give off any warp signatures, there's a good chance the Vulcans will just drive on by and not give the flying monkeys another glance.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Enterprise-Star-Trek-BuildTheEnterprise-ion-engines-gravity-wheel,news-15217.html

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Video: Syrian Girl Exposes The Hoax - Why Al Qaeda is Al CIAda

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Video: Syrian Girl Exposes The Hoax - Why Al Qaeda is Al CIAda

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Date: Wednesday, 16-May-2012 08:14:48

------------- Published on Mar 7, 2012 by amy2x Discussion with a young woman going by the moniker of "Syrian Girl" who recently posted a video breaking down the role of the U.S. and Israel in provoking unrest in Syria. She also eloquently dismantles the myth of al-Qaeda, the CIA created terror group. http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108 Syrian Girl Exposes USA Nazi Regime! http://youtu.be/cr2XyIKHX1k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2XyIKHX1k&feature=related ------------------ Uploaded by 108morris108 on Feb 17, 2012 We are also told about the Salafists, and a little on the secular nature of Syria, and the competing goals of the Gulf States, particularly Qatar to rule by religion. Some supporting links from Syrian Girl: http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fake-al-qaeda-actors-exposed-adam-gadah... http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/flashback-israeli-agents-accused-creati... http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/08/1038950271656.html http://polidics.com/cia/top-ranking-cia-operatives-admit-al-qaeda-is-a-comple... ... Iraqwar Exclusive: CIA "captures" their patsy coinciding with the formation of a resistance political alliance against al-CIAda. Al-Mashadani, who was caught this month, has told his U.S. military interrogators a prominent al Qaeda-led group is just a front and its leader fictitious, a military spokesman said on July 18, 2007. Brigadier-General Kevin Bergner told a news conference that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, which was purportedly set up last year, did not exist. Al-Mashadani, who was caught this month, has told his U.S. military interrogators a prominent al Qaeda-led group is just a front and its leader fictitious, a military spokesman said on July 18, 2007. Brigadier-General Kevin Bergner told a news conference that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, which was purportedly set up last year, did not exist. REUTERS/HO ------------- Syrian Girl - Why Al Qaeda is Al CIAda http://youtu.be/qCqmI1SQB5o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCqmI1SQB5o&feature=fvwrel

Roy Rogers - End Of An Era

End of An Era

THE END OF AN ERA.......

The Roy Rogers Museum in Branson, MO has closed its doors forever.

The contents of the museum were sold at a public auction.

Roy Rogers told his son, if the museum ever operates at a loss, close it

And sell the contents. He complied.

Note the follow-on article truly the end of an era.

Here is a partial listing of some of the items that were sold at auction...

Roy 's 1964 Bonneville sold for $254,500, it was estimated to

Sell between 100 and 150 thousand dollars.

 

His script book from the January 14,1953 episode of This Is Your Life sold for $10,000 (EST. $800-$1,000).

A collection of signed baseballs (Pete Rose, Duke Snyder and other greats) sold for $3,750.

A collection of signed bats (Yogi Berra, Enos Slaughter, Bob Feller, and others) sold for $2,750.

Trigger's saddle and bridle sold for $386,500 (EST. 100-150 K).

One of many of Roy 's shirts sold for $16,250 and one of his many cowboy hats sold for $17,500.

One set of boot spurs sold for $10,625. (He never used a set of spurs on Trigger).

A life size shooting gallery sold for $27,500.

Various chandeliers sold from $6,875 to $20,000. Very unique and artistic in their western style.

            Roy's first Boots

  

A signed photograph by Don Larsen taken during his perfect game in the world series against

The Dodgers on Oct. 8, 1953, along with a signed baseball to Roy from Don, sold for $2,500.

Two fabulous limited edition BB guns in their original boxes with

Numerous photos of Roy, Dale, Gabby, and Pat sold for $3,750.

A collection of memorabilia from his shows entertaining the troops in Vietnam sold for $938.

I never knew he was there. His flight jacket sold for $7,500.

His set of dinner ware plates and silverware sold for $11,875.

The Bible they used at the dinner table every night sold for $8,750.

One of several of his guitars sold for $27,500.

Nellybelle sold for $116,500.

 

A fabulous painting of Roy, Dale, Pat, Buttermilk, Trigger, and Bullet sold for $10,625.

One of several sets of movie posters sold for $18,750.

A black and white photograph of Gene Autry with a touching inscription

From Gene to Roy sold for $17,500.

A Republic Productions Poster bearing many autographs of the

People that played in Roy 's movies sold for $11,875.

Dale's horse, Buttermilk (whose history is very interesting) sold below

The presale estimate for $25,000. (EST. 30-40 K).

Bullet sold for $35,000 (EST. 10-15 K). He was their real pet.

Dale's parade saddle, estimated to sell between 20-30 K, sold for $104,500.

One of many pairs of Roy 's boots sold for $21,250.

Trigger sold for $266,500.

Do you remember the 1938 movie The Adventures of Robinhood,

With Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland? Well Olivia rode Trigger in that movie.

Trigger was bred on a farm co-owned by Bing Crosby.

Roy bought Trigger on a time payment plan for $2,500.

Roy and Trigger made 188 movies together.

Trigger even out did Bob Hope by winning an Oscar in the movie Son of Paleface in 1953.

It is extremely sad to see this era lost forever. Despite the fact that Gene and Roy 's movies,

As well as those of other great characters, can be bought or rented for viewing,

today's kids would rather spend their time playing video games.

Today it takes a very special pair of parents to raise their kids with the right values and morals.

These were the great heroes of our childhood, and they did teach us right from

Wrong, and how to have and show respect for each other and the animals that share this earth.

You and I were born at the right time.

We were able to grow up with these great people even if we never met them.

In their own way they taught us patriotism and honor, we learned that lying and

Cheating were bad, and sex wasn't as important as love.

We learned how to suffer through disappointment and failure and work through it. Our lives were drug free.

So it's good-bye to Roy and Dale, Gene and Hoppy, The Lone Ranger and Tonto.

Farewell to Sky King and Superman and Sgt. Friday. Thanks to Capt.. Kangaroo,

Mr. Rogers and Capt. Noah and all those people whose lives touched ours, and made them better.

It was a great ride through childhood.

HAPPY TRAILS MY FRIENDS

   

A Dog With Perfect Pitch ----- Love It!

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From PTR chat - Bank Story - For What It's Worth

From PTR chat - Bank Story - For What It's Worth
Never thought I'd post a bank story, but here goes - take it for what it's worth.

We cashed out another asset last week to tide us over until "the big one." The bank (one of the big four) said the funds would post at midnight on Monday night. She checked on-line this morning (Tuesday) and it hadn't posted.

She couldn't connect to our advisor via phone so she went to the branch to find out why. Another banker told her the computers had been down all morning and had just come back up. He also said that all the banks on that street (3 of the "big four") had their computers down all morning and they had just come back up and that it hadn't been a power problem.

This wasn't our regular banker, but we used him to set up a non-interest-bearing account last week. This morning he asked why we opened another account when we already had 4. My wife said that we were hoping for a substantial investment to mature and that we needed a non-interest-bearing account for temporary unlimited FDIC coverage under the Dodd-Frank act.

He asked what the investment was and my wife declined to tell him. He said, "Bet I can guess...dinar?" He DIDN'T give the "it's a scam" speech. He said that he'd been hearing about dinar a lot lately. Hopefully he was hearing about it in bank training sessions.
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Another bank story from Intel4u chat ...

3:36 PM [ploganea] I was at my WF. It is a small bank. The tellers have been into dinar for close to a year. So, just teasing, I handed her a dinar and asked her to cash it.

3:37 PM [ploganea] She laughed and said, I wish. She asked what I had heard on the computer and I told her. Then she told me that WF used to always say "we don't handle IQD and don't plan to in the future." They are not supposed to say that any more!

3:37 PM [Serendipity] ploganea What did she do/ sa?

3:38 PM [ploganea] She said that the employees were not supposed to be negative about IQD. Now this is a little WF, just 3 employees. They are closing the branch in June but are upgrading the software soon. She didn't know when.

3:38 PM [ploganea] She and I said it seems pretty funny to upgrade software on a branch that is going to close.

3:39 PM [ploganea] peaches105 The teller and I agreed that we can actually see movement forward and that is a good thing.

3:41 PM [ploganea] justchecking I think she said they were just to indicate that they will trade IQD when it becomes a tradeable currency. She and I were both pretty excited. I think I really threw her handing her the dinar.

Born 1930 - 1979

Subject: Born 1930-1979

Born 1930 - 1979  You definitely need to read the statement by Jay. Oh so true. Those of You Born  1930 - 1979 At the end of this Email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.. If you don't read anything else, PleaseRead what he Said.  Very well stated, Mr. Leno.  TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE  1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's! First, we survived being born to mothers  Who smoked and/or drank while they were  Pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing,  Tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,  Locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode  Our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads. As infants & children,  We would ride in cars with no car seats,  No booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day  Was always a special treat. We drank water  From the garden hose and not from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends,  From one bottle and no one actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon..  We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar.  And, we weren't overweight.  WHY? Because we were  Always outside playing...that's why! We would leave home in the morning and play all day,  As long as we were back when the  Streetlights came on. No one was able  To reach us all day. And, we were O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps  And then ride them down the hill, only to find out  We forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes  a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes.  There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable,  No video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's,  No cell phones, No personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms. WE HAD FRIENDS  And we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth  And there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt,  And the worms did not live in us  Forever. We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,  Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and,  Although we were told it would happen,  We did not put out very many eyes. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and  Knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just  Walked in and talked to them. Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.  Those who didn't had to learn to deal  With disappointment.  Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law  Was unheard of.  They actually sided with the law! These generations have produced some of the best  Risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever. The past 50 years  Have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.  We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility,  and we learned how to deal with it all. If YOU are one of them?  CONGRATULATIONS!  You might want to share this with others  who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the  lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives  for our own good . While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know  how brave and lucky their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house  with scissors, doesn't it ? The quote of the  month is by Jay Leno:  "With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,  mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms  tearing up the country from one end to another,  and with the threat ofswine flu  and terrorist attacks.  Are we sure this is a good time  to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us.. ..go ahead and delete this. For the rest of  us...pass this on.  A Small Prayer! God determines who walks into your life....it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go. When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer for the person who sent you this. Father,  God bless my friend in whatever it is that You know they may need this day!  And may their life be full of your peace, prosperity, and power  as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with you.  Amen. P. S... Five is good, but more is better. IN GOD WE TRUST