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Was this already posted?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn2-d5a3r94&feature=related

 

They do usually make detailed blueprints for the ships at some point, and a spaceship doesn't have many building constraints beyond internal pressure, they don't need to counteract gravity for example, and the inertial dampeners would remove the need to withstand the inertia of the engines.

Basically star trek ships are just pretty collections of useful rooms.

 

so... anyone noticed this awesome video yet?
Rapture for minecraft.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxcxnKYPOc

 

The Original Starship Enterprise, Constitution class has an overall length of 289 meters and 23 decks.

Enterprise-D, Galaxy class has an over lengh of 641 meters
16 decks on the saucer and 42(beginning with deck 8 of the saucer) decks on the stardrive section.

source: The Star Trek Encyclopedia. ISBN 0-671-88684-3 I have it. Not cuz I wanted it but, it was a gift to me from my grandparents who knew I watched it at the time. I stopped watching it when voyager came on... piece of crap.

with the above information you can roughly calculate the number of blocks needed. to build a near 1:1 model. Having watched the show I can say that the walkable space is about 8 feet tall. Enterprise D at one time had a huge ass character in it that was 6 1/2 feet tall and he still had plenty of room above his head. so with that in mind you can even get more detailed by using about 4 blocks per deck. 5 if you want to actually include the crawl ways.

ask me a star trek related question and I can look it up. as long as its a question answerable before 1997.

 

Most other people don't have the encyclopedia.

 

what methodology did they use to determine how the ship's size, and proultion etc "should roughly work" in the context of these things do not exist (yet)

 

The encyclopedia tells me so. So I believe it to be so. If you were considered an authority on something and you made an encyclopedia about it.. i might take your word for it too. People believe god exsits due to a book called the bible. wierd huh?

 

Atheists don't necessarily believe in the big bang.

 

Not the best analogy for atheism. Atheism is the argument that no-one intelligently created the universe, but rather that the universe created itself through gravitational force and interaction of subatomic particles over billions of years.

It's more of a question, rather than a faith.

 

i like pastafari...

 

Same way you do anything?

Say 'if this, then that'.

'IF a warp core puts out 20bazillion megascotties of energy, THEN the ship can go this fast'

In SF as in fantasy, you simply take the premises of the story, in the case of more classic SF it's usually 'suppose the martians invaded us with giant walking microwave tanks' and extrapolate from there using the rules of the universe, which are usually 'as reality unless stated'.

Just because the author makes some stuff up doesn't mean you should say 'but then how can you do anything because none of it is REAL', otherwise the entire story falls to bits, and all fiction ever is impossible to read.

 

Incorrect.


Atheism is simply the disbelief in gods.
iow mindset = There is no gods.
Agnostic atheists lacks the knowledge/evidence of gods, therefor not believing in them.
iow mindset = There isnt enough proof of that a god excist, therefor ill consider it as non-excistant untill proven othervise.
No more and no less.

How the universe is formed, or humanity or any such things is not relevant to atheism.
(unless its about rejecting a claim about either of those things which also involved gods)
However, most atheists consider scientific studies as valid for data about the world.
But Big bang is a scientific THEORIE.
Theories and facts are 2 diffrent things.

 

If you feel the need to make the distinction then 'facts' don't exist under scientific method.