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
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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
Oh, nice!
No BATTLESTAR!!!! :(
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.
OMG! :eek: 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.
If we include space stations, then there's the Death Star...
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.
No BATTLESTAR! :(
I think the Moon wouldn't fit, MK27 :D
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.
Oh, crap! I confused the two. I was thinking Space 1999.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
Forget I said anything.
#@$! you I still haven't seen the 5th season because it's not at the library...but the closer to the 3rd with "All Along the Watchtower" in it was like one of the high points in television history, surely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
[edit: don't mess with the devil!]
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?
Really, you should know better. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by MK27
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What about the Millenium Falcon?
Well, one pixel is 10 meters, so feel free to put two pixels just about anywhere on that page and you'll have your millennium falcon. The falcon however, definitely wasn't 10 meters tall, so you couldn't put it to scale if you wanted to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharke
As for the Death Star, according to Wookiepedia, the original was 160Km in diameter, which would make it 8 times the size of that entire image. Not hard to understand why it was left out. Try putting VY Canis Majoris and our sun in the same still image.
I didn't think it looked anywhere near 10 meters in the movies, but according to Wookieepedia:Quote:
Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom
Technical specifications
Length: 34.75 meters
Width: 25.61 meters
Height/depth: 8.27 meters (including lower cannon and upper sensor array)
Coincidentally, this is also one of the top ten things *not* to whip out on a date (#1: porn mags, #2: religious pamphlets, #3: comparison chart of fictional spacecraft).Quote:
Originally Posted by brewbuck
Where is Death Star?
> Where is Death Star?
Not drawn to scale ;)
The biggest ship on the picture is only 17km long.
The first Death Star was 160 kilometers in diameter, while the second Death Star was 900 kilometers in diameter.
Vorlon planet killers have been estimated as 50km +/- a few km.
Besides, the TARDIS is the only ship worth having :)
But that would be too small to cover even a pixel on that diagram.
Someone with some artistic talent (and time) needs to take that chart and do a video like this with it. Now THAT would be most excellent. And of course it could start out with the TARDIS...
That's nothing. I'm sure the Dyson Sphere from Star Trek TNG would be the biggest of all, since it had a diameter of about 200 million km.Quote:
Originally Posted by Salem
Try fitting that into the picture. ;)
What about V'Ger? That one would rule them all even beating your pesky Dyson sphere.
[edit]My inner geek drools at that image. I wish I could blow it up and make a poster out of it.[/edit]Quote:
Admiral James T. Kirk is assigned to his old ship, the now updated USS Enterprise, in order to intercept a mysterious and enormous energy cloud (82 AU in diameter, reduced to 2 AU in the special edition) approaching the Sol System.
Just for fun, considering only the Special Edition 2 AU in diameter:Quote:
Originally Posted by hk_mp5kpdw
2 AU = 299,196,000,000 m
1 pixel = 10 m so we would need 29,919,600,000 pixels wide/tall
Assuming a 1600x1200 standard monitor, we would need:
29,919,600,000 / 1200 = 24,933,000 monitors to display it. Or, that zoom rate to display it on a single monitor.
Assuming a JPEG image at the incredibly lowest resolution of 0.13 bit per pixel, the image size in disk would be:
29,919,600,000^2 * 0.13 = 11,637 * 10^19 bits,
or approximately 13 million terabytes.
(didn't triple-check results)
There isn't actually anything stopping you from doing that.Quote:
I wish I could blow it up and make a poster out of it.
Here is an extension to the previous image :)
http://www.daltonator.net/fanfics/mu.../truesizes.gif
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And another for some smaller size ships:
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/4...mall_super.png
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/4...dium_super.png
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Nah, V'Ger was just a big cloud of gas & energy. It's not solid, so I wouldn't count it as a real space station or ship.Quote:
Originally Posted by hk_mp5kpdw
Introducing literature into this would surely change the picture somewhat.
The Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What's not mentioned there is that the Culture is (mostly) it's ships, since biological entities generally don't live anywhere else, just in ships, but the ships evolved themselves, which is to say, the AI's took over a long long time ago.
If you are a sci-fi fan and can read, those Iain M. Banks novels are not to be missed!! Wikipedia says Dyson Spheres play an occasional minor role in them too, also extremely big since they contain stars. Banks seems to get a real kick moving between tiny "nano" worlds and ridiculously huge ones (eg, Feersum Enjinn*). The Culture has heterogeneous historical origins, I think.
Bank's coined the term "Outside Context Problem" too, altho the concept itself is a central conceit of sci-fi generally.
Can't believe how much wiki stuff on I.M. Banks from that I found in <5mins, hopefully one day they'll make a movie, methinks James Cameron should adapt Excession into the world's first $1 Billion dollar film.Quote:
Outside Context Problem (OCP), the kind of problem "most civilisations would encounter just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop."
*I have wistful, profound, thoughts now whenever I see ants.
Who would want to date a chick that doesn't like porn and FTL travel?!?? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Sebastiani
By my numbers I was suggesting it was 20 meters. At the time, it was a guesstimate, but upon further research I found it to be 26m long, which also seems to be what the more recent image DavidP also shows. You could easily say it would be three pixels by rounding, but it still stands to the fact that you couldn't draw it to scale with height on a 1px:10m ratio. With in itself, it would be fairly accurate at 3x1px but then it would be larger than scale compared to other ships.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeonBlack
> That's nothing. I'm sure the Dyson Sphere from Star Trek TNG would be the biggest of all, since it had a diameter of about 200 million km.
Stretching the idea of a "ship" a bit isn't it. I mean, where are you going to go with it?
Where ever the star goes. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Salem
But not all the things in that picture are ships. Some are space stations, which don't go anywhere.
Hey, I just found BSG on there, and Andromeda too.Quote:
Originally Posted by MK27
It's on the left edge right below Babylon 5 Earch Alliance Explorer Class.
I was thinking the Base Stars were just huge but I would think that of anything ~2km in diameter. I guess there is no perspective in outer space!Quote:
Originally Posted by cpjust
The last BSG presented a much more conservative vision of space expansion than Star Wars (and logarithmicly less than Star Trek), tho. And a crucial element of the plot revolves around everyone's reliance on planets, so the ships are not too big. The "Battlestar Wiki" doesn't even bother including dimensions:
Resurrection Ship - Battlestar Wiki