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Enterprise About to Take Off and Head to NYC

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited April 2012 in Ten Forward
Watch the Enterprise get a ride to NYC. Currently being monitored on Fox News.

I'd imagine NASA would be doing something now as well.

UPDATE: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/transition/home/index.html
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    If you are in NYC look up today, it will be flying around the city for a bit at one point.

    It should be at NYC around 10:15am or so.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I'm very disappointed. It seems very foolish and dangerous to me. Even if it goes off without any trouble, I want everyone who approved the idea to be fired for putting lives in danger like this.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Updated with a nasa link. :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    hort_wort wrote: »
    I'm very disappointed. It seems very foolish and dangerous to me. Even if it goes off without any trouble, I want everyone who approved the idea to be fired for putting lives in danger like this.

    How are lives in danger Hort? Are you talking about the wind conditions? Because even with that it was a "go" situation.

    :confused:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    How are lives in danger Hort? Are you talking about the wind conditions? Because even with that it was a "go" situation.

    :confused:

    All it takes is one guy with a rocket launcher. :( There will never be a more tempting target than a low-flying Enterprise over a densely populated region. If there's one disgruntled person in NY with a rocket launcher, you can be sure he'd take a shot at it. :(:(

    Sorry for pooing on your thread, but I'm genuinely worried about this.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    hort_wort wrote: »
    All it takes is one guy with a rocket launcher. :( There will never be a more tempting target than a low-flying Enterprise over a densely populated region. If there's one disgruntled person in NY with a rocket launcher, you can be sure he'd take a shot at it. :(:(

    Sorry for pooing on your thread, but I'm genuinely worried about this.

    I'd just be more worried about weather, NYC's security in general has been upgraded sinse...wel you know. But with the nterprise coming to the Intrpid, I'd imagine a beefed up security.

    And remember, Discovery was flying low over DC not long ago too.

    *Pats Hort's feathers and shines his beak*

    There's nothing to worry about.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Relax, they have Wil Weaton dangling on a nice long cable under the jet.

    If there's a disgrunteled NYC'er or ticked off trekki lookng for a target, he will be it. ;)

    Besides if she's flying low, run out with a baseball bat and take a swipe at him. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Visual confirmation in NYC

    Hope anyone in NYC is looking up. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Nemoy is going to be at the shuttle landing!

    Hopefully he will be on camera. :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    A reporter from NY1 reveals his fandom while on the air covering the event: http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/160187/nasa-shuttle-prototype-enterprise-arrives-in-city

    Unfortunately for me, I'm stuck at work with no view =/
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    in a case of Circular logic:

    Enterprise (1701) is named after Enterprise (NX-01), which is named after Enterprise (OV-101) which is named after Enterprise (1701)


    :eek:

    My head hurts
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    in a case of Circular logic:

    Enterprise (1701) is named after Enterprise (NX-01), which is named after Enterprise (OV-101) which is name after Enterprise (1701)


    :eek

    My head hurts

    Best not to think about it :P
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Spock interview right now on Fox !
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Landing coming up soon(tm).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    And that's a touchdown for Enterprise!!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    And that's a touchdown for Enterprise!!!

    Indeed.

    Now the Enterprise shall rest in her new home and be available to the public in July.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Haha hope someone makes a thread in July with Enterprise picks :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Whew! I've never been so happy to be wrong in my life. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    hort_wort wrote: »
    Whew! I've never been so happy to be wrong in my life. :D

    Well the odds of that happening was very low to be honest.

    I just can't wait to visit the Intrepid again with the Enterprise on her deck.

    Visitors will be able to walk under and over the Enterprise, no one allowed inside though; which is understandable.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Does anyone else see the irony in the Enterprise ending up inside the Intrepid?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    altecha wrote: »
    A reporter from NY1 reveals his fandom while on the air covering the event: http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/160187/nasa-shuttle-prototype-enterprise-arrives-in-city

    Unfortunately for me, I'm stuck at work with no view =/

    HA, we're everywhere. That gave me a good laugh.
    Tumerboy wrote: »
    Does anyone else see the irony in the Enterprise ending up inside the Intrepid?

    Indeed, most intriguing.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Tumerboy wrote: »
    Does anyone else see the irony in the Enterprise ending up inside the Intrepid?


    Well I hardly think of the Intrepid as a Giant Ameoba
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Tumerboy wrote: »
    Does anyone else see the irony in the Enterprise ending up inside the Intrepid?

    If the Intrepid class is big enough for 14 shuttlecraft, the Baxial, an army of Klingons, and the Delta flyer all at once, I don't see why they couldn't cram the Enterprise in there too.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Tumerboy wrote: »
    Does anyone else see the irony in the Enterprise ending up inside the Intrepid?

    Wait... Enterprise is going inside the Intrepid? I was stationed on a Nimitz-class carrier, which is quite a bit larger than the Intrepid... and I'm not sure that the shuttle would even fit in there without removing the shuttle's tail, maybe the landing gear, and some of the carrier's internal decks. Now on top of the flight deck is another story, but I really hope they're not going to just leave the Enterprise exposed up there.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Well I hardly think of the Intrepid as a Giant Ameoba

    lol I also thought of the TOS Intrepid before the Voyager Intrepid-class ship, which would probably be more appropriate:
    3of9 wrote: »
    If the Intrepid class is big enough for 14 shuttlecraft, the Baxial, an army of Klingons, and the Delta flyer all at once, I don't see why they couldn't cram the Enterprise in there too.

    No kidding! One of my major gripes at Voyager was how Janeway just would tractor beam almost every ship they came across into their impossibly-large shuttle bay... I mean, she's got entire fleets of ships in there, not just shuttles. Even if they are small ships (which is not the impression that I got from a lot of them), there's no way to cram them in there without at least dumping all of their shuttles out and doing some sort of hot-swap for parking space... like in order to even accommodate their 14 shuttles, at least 8 of them would have to be flying a patrol formation around Voyager at any time.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    My understnading is theat Enterprise will be displayed on the flight deck of the Intrepid in what will eventualy become an enclosed structure, while that's being built, Enterprise will be in a temporary structure that will have enviromental controls. (i.e Air Conditioning)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I sort of assumed the crew of Voyager manufactured new shuttles as they went along. The standard design would go together much faster than the Delta Flyer. Just replicate the components and weld together as directed by the computer. Like LEGOs. :confused:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Tumerboy wrote: »
    Does anyone else see the irony in the Enterprise ending up inside the Intrepid?

    Heh I see what you did there.

    But the Little E will be on the flight deck mainly.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    hort_wort wrote: »
    I sort of assumed the crew of Voyager manufactured new shuttles as they went along. The standard design would go together much faster than the Delta Flyer. Just replicate the components and weld together as directed by the computer. Like LEGOs. :confused:

    They had Neelix's ship in there the entire trip and the Flyer would have actually scraped the sides of the shuttle bay door on the way in/out. Yet you see it, the Baxial, and a few shuttle spaces at one point on an interior shot. In Enterprise, they joked with the explanation that in the future, the Federation has access to "subspace pocket" technology which allowed for things to be far bigger on the inside than on the outside. (Crewman Daniels' locker door hiding place.) But I digress, it's just a show and we should all really just relax. ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I just wish I was in NYC when this happened...at least I watched the entire thing on TV.

    Congrats to those who saw her fly around the city first hand. :cool:
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