A cool site comparing starship sizes with Serenity at the top. by Josephus

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A cool site comparing starship sizes with Serenity at the top.

POSTED BY: JOSEPHUS
UPDATED: Sunday, October 5, 2008 17:45
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Sunday, October 5, 2008 7:57 AM

Here's a really cool site ( http://www.merzo.net/10ppm.htm) started in 2003 that compares various starships' sizes to each other. Check out the site and the first ship that comes up at the very top is our favorite. Below is the intro to the site.

Starship Dimensions, dates back to May 13, 2003. Four and a half years later, this mind-boggling sci-fi site remains dedicated to the belief that size really does matter:

"Hollywood has given us all sorts of mock starships, but if they were really built to scale, how large would they actually be? Jeff Russell rescues sci-fi fans by creating a site that uses a pixel-to-meter gauge for over 200 ships from "Star Trek," "Babylon 5," "Star Wars," and more. An enormous Boeing 747 dominates the 10x page—even the giant Plasma Bug from Starship Troopers is dwarfed by it. On the 1x page, you can drag down Star Trek's Galaxy class starship and place it next to the "Trek" Constitution class to compare the ships captained by Picard and Kirk, respectively. Things start to get really big at the -10x page. The Island Two space colony (a proposed NASA project) overwhelms even the giant Super Star Destroyer and the Borg cube. In the background of the -2000x page ( http://www.merzo.net/2000mpp.htm) is the Earth's Moon. Only the Zentraedi Fulbtzs Berrentzs-class Home Base from the Robotech cartoon series can compare. The painstaking research ( http://www.merzo.net/links.htm) behind this site certainly puts things like a Klingon Bird of Prey in its proper perspective."

Josephus

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Sunday, October 5, 2008 2:06 PM

KRALIZEC

Great link. Thanks!

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Sunday, October 5, 2008 5:44 PM