Ship Comparisons Across Genre

Varthikes · Post by **Varthikes** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:04 pm

Captain Seafort wrote:This is another good site for size comparisons - with the updated 19km length for the Executor rather than the rough estimate on the one Foxbat posted.

I love the inclusion of King Kong, Stay Puft Marshmellow Man (Ghostbusters), and Godzilla.

I think I like that one better. It at least has something from Stargate...

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:48 am

Bryan Moore wrote:I like the "BIG" scale. What a crazy concept, a Dyson Sphere.

Says something that the biggest thing they've got is from ST.

All joking aside... that site really helps with fanfics, actually. And just... visualizing these magnificent vessels.

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:21 am

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:
Bryan Moore wrote:I like the "BIG" scale. What a crazy concept, a Dyson Sphere.
Says something that the biggest thing they've got is from ST.

All joking aside... that site really helps with fanfics, actually. And just... visualizing these magnificent vessels.

It's nice because if you turn to the smallest scale, we see that everything, even the Dyson Sphere is all just the size of a dot compared to James T. Kirk's libido =)

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:29 am

They should have the V'Ger cloud on there - even the 2 AU version from the director's cut would be bigger than the Dyson Sphere, and the 82 AU version would be HELLA big.

Post by **Teaos** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:27 am

The 2AU one would be about the same as the dyson.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:48 am

The biggest problem with that site, now that the Executor has been fixed, is the second Death Star - it's depicted as being less than one-fifth its true diametre.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:21 pm

Cant have everything, I guess.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:40 am

GrahamKennedy wrote: Unfortunately, I can't really see any way to justify the "real" DITL having a bunch of ancient Earth sci-fi ships in their database! We have a strict rule that it must at least be mentioned somewhere in Star Trek to appear on our size charts - though we happily include stuff like 20th century aircraft, cars, etc. We even put the RMS Titanic in when Tom mentioned it in one episode of Voyager!

Tucker was a huge science fiction fan (which I always thought was cool Star Trek people talking about Sci-Fi

). Maybe his personal collection of ancient science fiction movies is uploaded onto Daystorm

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:24 pm

Captain Seafort wrote:The biggest problem with that site, now that the Executor has been fixed, is the second Death Star - it's depicted as being less than one-fifth its true diametre.

Oh yeah, failed to notice that. Though truthfully, the 900km Death Star II seems so astronomically large, it's build time is almost unbelievable as is.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:14 pm

Well you've got a Galaxy 400,000 light years across with 20 million sentient species. Its not that far to stretch the imagination and say that they could build it in 6 (9 for completion) months. I think a lot would have to be built off sight and tractored there cause they'd keep running into each other if they built it all on site

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:38 pm

Nitpick - The GFFA is only 120,000 ly across

I think what happened was that Xixor's transport fleet was used to transport raw material to Endor, and the requisite parts were fabricated on-site. Since it's over five-hundred miles across I don't think lack of space is going to be a problem. The problems with a modular construction theory would be the lack of evidence for a hyperspace tow, the danger of security breaches at secondary construction sites, and the fact that the DS II didn't look as though it had been built in segments (although that might be an effect of the scale of the thing).

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:40 pm

Can you buy that as a poster?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:16 pm

I don't think so.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:20 pm

Captain Seafort wrote:This is another good site for size comparisons - with the updated 19km length for the Executor rather than the rough estimate on the one Foxbat posted.

I have been visiting that site for about 3 years or more... great place.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:28 pm

Captain Seafort wrote:Nitpick - The GFFA is only 120,000 ly across

I think that was retconned. I got the ly from an old Han Solo book but when I was looking on Wookieepedia I saw 120,000ly too. Hmm.