Size Comparison of Sci-Fi Spaceships

[MeanDean]

Maybe it's just all the talk about size, but was anyone else noticing on that chart that a disturbing number of these space ships are basically phallic in shape?

Gives a whole new meaning to, "Boldly going where no man has gone before."

 

[Clonefan94]

For a death star size comparison, I always go back to the scene in Star Wars when one of the start destroyers crashed into the surface of the death star. It seems to be about the size of a small planet. Maybe not as large as Earth, but I think larger than our moon.

That's no moon!

 

[abe2010]

did I miss the Borg cube? Didn't see it

it's the cubish-shaped one

 

[GTO]

Maybe it's just all the talk about size, but was anyone else noticing on that chart that a disturbing number of these space ships are basically phallic in shape?

Gives a whole new meaning to, "Boldly going where no man has gone before."

You have to stick it to the enemy.

 

[VeloClone]

Maybe it's just all the talk about size, but was anyone else noticing on that chart that a disturbing number of these space ships are basically phallic in shape?

Gives a whole new meaning to, "Boldly going where no man has gone before."

It's funny the way humans who live with an atmosphere and have to design vehicles to overcome drag can't get away from that thinking when they start designing for an environment devoid of measurable drag.

 

[Judoka]

Rehosted it since it was loading super slow for me

 

[GrindingAway]

I got home and should it to my kids thinking they would think dad's super awesome.

Their response...

"Where the ship from Spaceballs?"

smh

 

[jdoggivjc]

I got home and should it to my kids thinking they would think dad's super awesome.

Their response...

"Where the ship from Spaceballs?"

FTW

FIFY

 

[enisthemenace]

It's funny the way humans who live with an atmosphere and have to design vehicles to overcome drag can't get away from that thinking when they start designing for an environment devoid of measurable drag.

Don't a lot of these ships enter atmospheres though? I mean, they aren't perpetually in space, right? Based on the movies, most of the ships in the Star Wars universe enter atmospheric space.

 

[VeloClone]

For the most part many of these ships have a nominal top and bottom. It always bothered me when I watched Star Wars or Star Trek that when ships approached each other they both always had the "top" of the ship oriented in the same way as the other ship(s) in the area. Up and down have no meaning in space so why would they miraculously be oriented the same way in the void of space.

 

[GTO]

One thing I never understood is why the Enterprise didn't have seat belts. Every time they were hit, people were flying all over the bridge. You would think somebody would have put some seat belts by now. OSHA regulations would require them, I would think. Hell, even Spaceball One had seat belts!

 

[StClone]

 

[GTO]

Did anyone find the Event Horizon on the chart?

 

[GTO]

I got home and should it to my kids thinking they would think dad's super awesome.

Their response...

"Where the ship from Spaceballs?"

smh

Spaceballs One is there. Just a little bit below the middle, right on top of the ship from Silent Running. There are a few obscure ships in here, like the ones from the Aliens movies as well as the Icarus from the movie Sunshine. Pretty amazing work!

 

[Clone1138]

Not sure if already mentioned, but there was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that introduced the Dyson sphere (it was the Scotty episode). While the Dyson sphere technically is not a ship, it has to take the cake for largest "created" structure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

 

[Clone1138]

One thing I never understood is why the Enterprise didn't have seat belts. Every time they were hit, people were flying all over the bridge. You would think somebody would have put some seat belts by now. OSHA regulations would require them, I would think. Hell, even Spaceball One had seat belts!

The Enterprise in "Star Trek: Into Darkness" has retractable seat belts which they use a few times near the end of the movie. There's also a deleted scene from "Star Trek: Nemesis" where they show Picard his new command chair and it also has retractable seat belts.

 

[CarolinaCy]

"Sir, it's coming up on the radar now. It appears to be a ................ Winnebago."

 

[GTO]

The Enterprise in "Star Trek: Into Darkness" has retractable seat belts which they use a few times near the end of the movie. There's also a deleted scene from "Star Trek: Nemesis" where they show Picard his new command chair and it also has retractable seat belts.

I stand corrected. I guess I was just thinking of the old Star Trek show and maybe even TNG. I guess they made it that way for dramatic effect, but it just looked silly when people were falling head first over the equipment.

 

[GTO]

Not sure if already mentioned, but there was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that introduced the Dyson sphere (it was the Scotty episode). While the Dyson sphere technically is not a ship, it has to take the cake for largest "created" structure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

I've seen one of these Dysons before, and while it might roll better on a ball, it didn't seem that big.

 

[Clone1138]

Oh it's plenty big. It's one of Unicron's alt modes when he doesn't feel like turning into a planet.