RE: starship-design: Aircraft Carriers

[David Levine <david@actionworld.com>]

Well, my undergraduate degree was in Naval Architecture and Marine
Engineering.  I can picture some of my classmates being fascinated by
SeaQuest enough to have done some sort of project relating to it, but this
was before that show was on the air.

However, it wasn't THAT long ago.  We talked about ships for all sorts of
purposes, but nothing that quite matched the purpose and design of SeaQuest,
which is modelled more after the Enterprise on Star Trek than anything else.

However, some ideas and technology mentioned in the show were extrapolated
from current ideas and technologies  - witness the closing comments made by
Dr. Ballard in early episodes.

That beind said, I really didn't like the show too much.
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> From: 	Stephen Harley[SMTP:stephen.harley@dial.pipex.com]
> Sent: 	Sunday, May 17, 1998 3:03 PM
> To: 	David Levine
> Cc: 	'starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu'
> Subject: 	Re: starship-design: Aircraft Carriers
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> David Levine wrote:
> 
> > Right - the only reason subs don't carry support fleets is for military
> > purposes - they'd defeat the purpose of being stealthy if a bunch of
> surface
> > vessels followed them around.  But a sub is much more akin to the kind
> of
> > craft we're talking about.  So imagine a sub as large as an aircraft
> carrier
> > - maybe a research sub with a fleet of support vessels.
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> > David Levine                     david@actionworld.com
> > Director of Development    http://www.actionworld.com/
> > ActionWorld, Inc.                       (212) 387-8200
> > Professional Driver.  Closed Track.  Do not attempt.
> 
> And you've got SeaQuest DSV ! Actually this maybe a silly question but
> did anybody ever do any research papers or designs of something like the
> fictional SeaQuest, (or did the show ?) while they will largerly be
> irrelevant
> perhaps we could find something useful in them.
> 
> Stephen.
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