I am still missing the big enterprises that were undertaken during the sixties and seventies where the biggest enterprise humanity ever undertook was sending men to the moon. And I may be wrong and it may just be my age, a boy growing up in the sixties, seventies and eighties of the last century. But to me the Concorde, the Boeing 747 and the moon program were bigger than anything every invented by men. And I know this is not fully true, as the invention of the steam engine and the use of it and the invention of trains and cars and planes I think are similar things in a different era. And maybe also the pyramids and the roman road network all over Europe may be similar large things. But what I’m missing is ‘something big’, like John F. Kennedy stating that he wanted to go to the moon before the end of the decade in the sixties AND HE DID.
And in current times of unemployment and downturn in economy, don’t we need something like that, something big for humanity that would bring us to the next level? And there may be many things, but to me the idea of going to the stars like in Star Trek, I think also something from the same era I just mentioned, is still appealing and I’m quite sure humanity one day will really build something like the Enterprise from Star Trek. And is that not indeed the next logical step for mankind? Going to the stars?
So I was wondering, today, could we really do that already, do we have the technology already available in a similar way as the technology was available at the beginning of the sixties related to the flying of the moon? And are there already people mentioning goals like that, setting goals like that? Wouldn’t that be an exciting idea for humanity to build something like the Star Ship Enterprise from the Star Trek series, the Star Trek brand?
What about saying, what about me saying something like “let’s go for the stars before halfway this century”? Let’s send a ship like the Star Trek Enterprise that would be fully self supporting ‘towards the stars’. Wouldn’t that be an exciting goal?
I think I’m going to check if there are already people thinking this, doing this, starting this.
Let’s just do it!