OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter

[Phoenix-D]

Why shouldn't it work? The "destroyed on use" part of stellar manip components is a seperate ability.

[PvK]

I didn't remember that. Thanks.

[PvK]

It's been updated. Now there are several scales.

I think their new Death Stars are off - at least one of them. I don't think there was that much difference between the two.

And, their King Kong is still too small.

But it's a great site! I'm glad to see they are still adding stuff.

PvK

Originally posted by Kamog:
Hey, check out this page which has drawings of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Babylon 5 ships to scale, compared to real ships and buildings. There's the Empire State Building, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, etc compared to Godzilla, Battlestar Galactica, Galaxy Class Starship, Omega Class Destroyer, Star Wars Space Slug, etc.

Each drawing is scaled to 1 pixel = 1 meter.
http://mirror.wolffelaar.nl/zardalu.sytes.net/

[David E. Gervais]

so I guess size does matter

[PvK]

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.

PvK