OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter

Aloofi · #1 May 1st, 2003, 09:14 PM

Wow, an Imperial Star Destroyer is really big.

What's up with that Romulan Warbird or Deridex or something? Isn't it too big?
I don't remember them to be that big in Bridge Kommander.

geoschmo · #2 May 1st, 2003, 09:18 PM

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Originally posted by Katchoo:
Hehehe

I can re-enact the Hindinburgh disaster on this page...

Ok, so it's the Hindinburgh crashing on Cloud City...

I made Kong climb the Empire State Building.

Aloofi · #3 May 1st, 2003, 09:22 PM

Is it there any chance that the kts in SE4 may be also taken as the lenght?

If a 500 kt Cruiser would also be 500m long, then we would be closer to sci-fi mainstream......

Aloofi · #4 May 1st, 2003, 09:39 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
I made Kong climb the Empire State Building.

hehe, I tried to make him fall but he doesn't wanna turn upside down.....

oleg · #5 May 1st, 2003, 09:41 PM

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Originally posted by Aloofi:
Is it there any chance that the kts in SE4 may be also taken as the lenght?

If a 500 kt Cruiser would also be 500m long, then we would be closer to sci-fi mainstream......

May be not a length, but a volume certainly. After all, when we speak about ship displacement it is in fact a measure how much water do we need to sink her

Certainly, it can not be water for starships. May be vaccum ?

It does have non-zero "zero" density after all !

Noble713 · #6 May 5th, 2003, 05:09 AM

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Originally posted by Gwaihir:
Those are way off for the Eclipse vs. the SSD - the eclipse is 17500m and the SSD is 8000m, yet they are shown as basically the same size.

Actually, the Executor class IS about the same size as the Eclipse. See these pages for details:

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ssd5mile.html
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ssd.html#size

Gwaihir · #7 May 5th, 2003, 06:58 AM

I stand corrected. Thank you very much, good stuff to know. I really like how detailed the site's analysis is. I saw a similar one a while back debunking a myth about the death star. (and another one discussing how the second death star's explosion would have destroyed Endor's ecology - either from fallout or from fall-on (big chunks landing as meteorite strikes - no matter how generously you estimate it, there would be enough of them for nuclear winter (i think that's the gist of it) ) It was very detailed, got all the technical stuff covered, and was fun to read.