I found this while looking for pictures of spaceships at the behest of my two year old. I thought it was pretty cool:
http://conservationreport.files.word...ison-chart.gif
I found this while looking for pictures of spaceships at the behest of my two year old. I thought it was pretty cool:
http://conservationreport.files.word...ison-chart.gif
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
Oh, nice!
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
No BATTLESTAR!!!!
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
The Constitution (USS Enterprise) from Star Trek was only 289 meters? Kind of hard to believe it held a crew of I believe thousands of people. That's with all the amenities of a large mess hall, holodeck, medical ward, and literally hundreds of randomly placed traps and gauntlet like obstacles.
EDIT: Hmm, it seems there were only a bit under 500 people on the original Enterprise. My mistake. Still seems cramped considering a fraction of its size was actually interior living space.
Last edited by SlyMaelstrom; 05-12-2010 at 07:58 PM.
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OMG! How many people were there on the Star Wars 'Executor Class' ships?? They're bigger than all of those space stations. Babylon 5 had about 250,000 people and it's still tiny compared to Star Wars.
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If we include space stations, then there's the Death Star...
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
According to the Starwars Wikia, it had a crew around 280,000.
Damn thing is beautiful too, isn't it. The empire kicked arse. Rebels were lame.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
No BATTLESTAR!
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
I think the Moon wouldn't fit, MK27
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
The Death Star is missing...that's probably the most glaring station/ship left out.
I wish they had also included ships from the Battletech universe in this size comparison.
It'd also be cool to see some Halo stuff on there too.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
I just watched Danny Boyle's "Sunshine" (2007) last night, the ICARUS II was supposedly equivalent to the mass of Manhattan Island, so it would be pretty big.
Except it was a giant nuclear bomb containing all of Earth's fissile material: what's the relative density of granite/steel/concrete (Manhattan Island) to uranium/plutonium?
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge