Timeline for Was the original Enterprise truly the first sci-fi spaceship designed purely for exploration?
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| Jan 7, 2016 at 17:01 | comment | added | Cees Timmerman | With shield, the Falcon easily tanks a million times the energy of typical Enterprise weapons. Its hull is also strong. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 21:26 | vote | accept | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | ||
| Dec 5, 2015 at 15:02 | comment | added | Tony Ennis | NCC 1701 Enterprise was a Constitution-class heavy cruiser. The ship was not meant solely for exploration; it's a warship. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 17:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/672829062025465856 | ||
| Dec 4, 2015 at 9:13 | comment | added | Gusdor | @Joe 99.999% of space is empty. I refuse to believe that they spun a bottle and went in the direction it pointed. Rather, an interesting star is picked and they go and explore its system. A -> B. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 2:32 | comment | added | user207421 | Jules Verne, De la Terre a la Lune, 1865. A space ship of some sort is mentioned in one of the Alexander romances, c. 1st century CE. Elijah ascended to heaven in a fiery chariot. It's endless. | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 1:14 | answer | added | Euan M | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 21:21 | history | edited | user14111 |
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| Dec 3, 2015 at 21:16 | answer | added | user14111 | timeline score: 20 | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 20:59 | comment | added | Joe | Exploration has a pretty clear meaning in his context. Amundsen knew where the South Pole was, and had a specific destination in mind. Space exploration in the Star Trek universe is often more like 'exploration' in an old school RPG computer game: where you're walking around to uncover the black parts of the map to see what's there. Random Walk exploration, basically (perhaps not truly random, but still). | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 20:53 | comment | added | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | @user14111: agreed they are not mutually exclusive but I think the distinction he makes is clear enough: A to B is a single journey; exploration (using his definition) is multiple journeys especially to different destinations. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 20:51 | answer | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | timeline score: 62 | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 20:31 | comment | added | user14111 | @Wikis My point was that Tyson's distinction between "going from A to B" and "exploration" doesn't make much sense. Was Amundsen's journey to the South Pole not exploration? | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 20:06 | answer | added | NKCampbell | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:56 | comment | added | CBredlow | @Nathan K. Campbell post that as an answer, I just did lost in space because that was more exploration than the others | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:55 | comment | added | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | @user14111: Earth to Moon is explicitly excluded since that is A to B (though is definition does not specify whether or not it includes the return B to A). But the rest of your comment would make a good answer. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:55 | comment | added | NKCampbell | You could also consider Buck Rogers, Fireball XL5, and Flash Gordon | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:55 | answer | added | CBredlow | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:52 | comment | added | user14111 | It depends on how you define "sci-fi". Tyson apparently thinks sci-fi is "movies and shows". In that case he might have a point, though I would think the first voyage from the earth to the moon would count as "exploration". However, if written science-fiction stories and books count as sci-fi, lots of spaceships went exploring in the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s, with Van Vogt's Space Beagle perhaps being the most analogous to the Enterprise. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:50 | comment | added | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | @NathanK.Campbell: I think what DeGrasse Tyson (it's not my point) is saying is that all other ships were intended just to be used once, to go from A to B. But the Enterprise was designed to explore, ie go anywhere. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:46 | comment | added | NKCampbell | yeah - I think it's a semantics game - but I concede the point @Wikis is trying to make | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | CBredlow | @NathanK.Campbell the only spaceship I can think of for Verne would be the Columbiad, and that was designed to go from point a to point b. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:41 | history | edited | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:38 | comment | added | NKCampbell | I still suppose it depends on how you define exploration. Getting from point A to point B to explore at point B (ie - 'seek out strange new worlds') could be defined as exploring, in which case one could look to Verne or H.G. Wells' spaceships | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 19:34 | history | asked | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |