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halloweenjack) wrote2007-07-22 10:38 pm
halloweenjack) wrote2007-07-22 10:38 pm
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...and a star to steer her by
Via laurahcory , d_p_rackham , and others: Starship Dimensions. Shows the relative sizes of different science fiction starships, space stations, and even species, from Yoda all the damn way up to Niven's Ringworld. Comparisons are to terrestrial structures and species and, once you get high up enough, to the Moon. It's the ultimate extension of the comparison, in The Making of Star Trek, of the starship Enterprise to the real aircraft carrier.
laurahcory , d_p_rackham , and others: Starship Dimensions. Shows the relative sizes of different science fiction starships, space stations, and even species, from Yoda all the damn way up to Niven's Ringworld. Comparisons are to terrestrial structures and species and, once you get high up enough, to the Moon. It's the ultimate extension of the comparison, in The Making of Star Trek, of the starship Enterprise to the real aircraft carrier.