How to build a ship for interstellar travel

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Jul 31st 2025

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THE USS Enterprise they are not. One looks like a magic-marker pen, except that it is 58km long. The second, a pair of conjoined Ferris wheels. And the third, a giant jellyfish. They are, nevertheless, the winners of what may be the world’s first serious (or, at least, semi-serious) competition to design a ship to boldly go where no one has gone before, and settle a planet circling another star.

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