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Title: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2014, 11:22:53 PM

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Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Engadget
by Jon Fingas | @jonfingas | 17hs ago 


(http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/eddcd2a010d2ca0664e8ec31a7f9aa0b/200792002/sci-fi-spacehship-comparison-chart-960.jpg)



If you regularly follow geek culture, you've probably seen early versions of Dirk Loechel's spaceship comparison chart, which shows the relative sizes of vehicles from science fiction games, movies and TV shows. Well, it's finished -- and it's even more authoritative than the last time around. Get the full-size version and you'll see Babylon 5's Vorlon Planet Killer, Mass Effect's Normandy and seemingly everything in between. The chart even includes a real vessel, the International Space Station -- at 328 feet long, it seems downright puny next to its make-believe counterparts. Some story franchises have better representation than others (EVE is full of colossal ships), and you won't see moon-sized spacecraft like Star Wars' Death Star, but it's otherwise hard to imagine a more complete view of sci-fi transportation.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/22/sci-fi-spaceship-comparison-chart/ (http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/22/sci-fi-spaceship-comparison-chart/)

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The pic embiggens slightly when you click on it, but not nearly enough.

Call me when someone works up a version with all the bull[poop]from games I've never heard of thrown out...

...Also - this is a penis-measuring contest for whose franchise pulled the most ridiculous numbers out of their butt...

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2014, 11:27:24 PM

Found a bigger copy on DeviantArt...

(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/171/0/1/size_comparison___science_fiction_spaceships_by_dirkloechel-d6lfgdf.jpg)

http://dirkloechel.deviantart.com/art/Size-Comparison-Science-Fiction-Spaceships-398790051 (http://dirkloechel.deviantart.com/art/Size-Comparison-Science-Fiction-Spaceships-398790051)

The copy at the link clicks big enough to read.

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Rusty Edge on September 23, 2014, 11:31:46 PM

So I imagine all of these are smaller than Death Stars and Borg Cubes?

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2014, 11:36:09 PM

A Borg cube about halfway down on the right edge - no Death Star.  I think they're all smaller than the latter...

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Rusty Edge on September 24, 2014, 01:57:28 AM

Thanks, I obviously overlooked it.

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Rusty Edge on September 29, 2014, 04:27:08 AM

Here's a space ship time line-

What's that big one at 48,000 BC ?

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 29, 2014, 04:31:50 AM

Those aren't to scale - and it left out when the Lexx showed up right before the end of the world.

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Geo on October 07, 2014, 02:23:15 PM

Quote from: Rusty Edge on September 29, 2014, 04:27:08 AM

Here's a space ship time line-

What's that big one at 48,000 BC ?

You mean 148,000 BCE?
NuBattlestar Galactica. :P

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Rusty Edge on October 07, 2014, 05:48:27 PM

Quote from: Geo on October 07, 2014, 02:23:15 PM

Quote from: Rusty Edge on September 29, 2014, 04:27:08 AM

Here's a space ship time line-

What's that big one at 48,000 BC ?

You mean 148,000 BCE?
NuBattlestar Galactica. :P

That explains it! I never watched that one.

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 07, 2014, 05:55:58 PM

It's all happened before and will again.

The original ended up being better, for all its many, many, many flaws.

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Geo on October 07, 2014, 07:43:43 PM

Quote from: BUncle on October 07, 2014, 05:55:58 PM

The original ended up being better, for all its many, many, many flaws.

Yeah.
But even the original one had its fair share of flaws. ;)
Then again, TV shows were simply made different back then. Look at TOS for instance.

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 07, 2014, 07:49:05 PM

The problem with the BSG remake was that they had nothing to say after the miniseries - and ultimately, not a soul on the entire show was likeable.  Bleh.  No nihilism in my escapist fantasies.

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Rusty Edge on October 07, 2014, 11:19:56 PM

Quote from: BUncle on October 07, 2014, 07:49:05 PM

The problem with the BSG remake was that they had nothing to say after the miniseries - and ultimately, not a soul on the entire show was likeable.  Bleh.  No nihilism in my escapist fantasies.

So they failed the basic "Do you care about the characters?" test ?

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 07, 2014, 11:21:57 PM

Not at first - but I was rootin' for the Cylons by the end of the first season.

But only barely, 'cause they sucked, too.

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Geo on October 08, 2014, 01:06:32 PM

Quote from: BUncle on October 07, 2014, 07:49:05 PM

... - and ultimately, not a soul on the entire show was likeable.

 :stop:
Agathon (Helo). :2c:

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 08, 2014, 02:41:58 PM

Half point for that.  He was just taking up space.  Not a jerk, but not likeable - a little pathetic.

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Yitzi on October 08, 2014, 04:35:06 PM

Quote from: BUncle on September 23, 2014, 11:36:09 PM

A Borg cube about halfway down on the right edge - no Death Star.  I think they're all smaller than the latter...

The biggest seem to be in the double-digit km; the Death Star is big enough to be confused for a moon.

So yeah, they're all way smaller than the Death Star; I don't think the Death Star would even fit on the chart.

Title: Re: Almost all the sci-fi spaceships you know are on this massive chart
Post by: Geo on October 08, 2014, 06:40:16 PM

Quote from: BUncle on October 08, 2014, 02:41:58 PM

Half point for that.  He was just taking up space.  Not a jerk, but not likeable - a little pathetic.

I can see he looks a little tame compared to the team you were routing for. I mean, the term "multiple personality disorder" gets a whole new meaning with the humanoid Cylons.