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Default Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter

so I guess size does matter
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Default Re: OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter

Yep. Actually though, I was looking at some stills of the original King Kong film, and the scale there looked about right at 12.5m for Kong. However for the 1970's Kong, or the Kong vs. Godzilla films, Kong is a lot bigger. That's the difficulty with a site like that - much SF isn't very consistent in its sizes. I also looked at the site that has the Ewok genocide analysis and it looks like the death star sizes may not be much off either.

Although, if the first Death Star was only 160 km, and the second Death Star was 800 km, that's... interesting. Seems like if you have the materials to make an 800 km deathstar, and no one else is making deathstars, and a 160 km deathstar is enough to wipe out planets and be unkillable except by er, super-heroics, then they might be wiser to build a whole fleet of 160 km deathstars, or just one deathstar, and thousands of star destroyers. ISD's are still the coolest, anyway, and plenty big.

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