Author Topic: Scale in Space (Read 932 times)

CyranoAH · « **Reply #15 on:** April 25, 2005, 01:51:51 AM »

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Originally posted by Drunky
And I used to feel like a geek because I had the entire layout of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek on a set of 3 x 5 cards that I bought at a neighbor's garage sale back in the late 70's.

*sniff* It even included a nifty clear plastic case with decorative color front panel and a snazzy snapping lock for the cover kinda like an envelope.

Hell, I knew where everying bowling alley was located on the Enterprise!!!

Then it became a casuality during the Great Comic Book Burning of '75. I never really forgave my mother after that.

Where are the toilets then?

Daniel

Schaden · « **Reply #16 on:** April 25, 2005, 03:11:11 AM »

Read Bill Brysons - A short history of nearly everything - there ain't going to be no Star Trek.

Nilsen · « **Reply #17 on:** April 25, 2005, 04:11:28 AM »

You guys must pull alot of females with that knowledge.

jezus... everyone knows that Yoda kicks all your gay spaceships asses.

Sandman · « **Reply #18 on:** April 25, 2005, 02:09:25 PM »

Starship Dimensions

more dimensions

Sundowner · « **Reply #19 on:** April 25, 2005, 07:02:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Octavius
The Executor is only 8km long. Merely a fart in the Sphere-o-Fear, Deathticle, Giant Hurt Ball, aka Death Star's shadow.

I SWEAR!

1K3 · « **Reply #20 on:** April 25, 2005, 08:28:10 PM »

is that ship gonna be shown in Tard Wars II?

indy007 · « **Reply #21 on:** April 26, 2005, 09:49:00 AM »

This is nothing. If y'all want true ubernerd entertainment, go lookup Star Wars vs. Star Trek forums. They come complete with mathematical analysis of weapons and everything.

Charon · « **Reply #22 on:** April 26, 2005, 03:25:51 PM »

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This is nothing. If y'all want true ubernerd entertainment, go lookup Star Wars vs. Star Trek forums. They come complete with mathematical analysis of weapons and everything.

You had to go and kill my productivity today, didn't you? Here's one I came across:

http://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWhi2.html

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he fastest ship in Star Wars has, at sublight speeds, a maximum upper limit value for straight-line acceleration of about 210 m/s², or about 21.5g. She can reverse her engines for a rearward acceleration of about 90 m/s², or about 9.2g.

Pretty impressive for a ship described in chapter ten of the TESB novelisation as having ion engines.

However, compared to Star Trek vessels, this is quite poor acceleration indeed. Compare this to, for instance, the refit Enterprise in ST:TMP, which went from Earth to Jupiter in 1.8 hours. The distance from Earth to Jupiter is quite variable over their respective orbits, but I decided to try narrowing it down a bit. According to the excellent space simulation program Celestia, the example date of July 4, 2271 gives us a distance of 4.773 AU from Earth to Jupiter, or over 714,000,000 kilometers (about .66 light-hours). That's an average speed of 110,191,481.5m/s. Assuming a constant acceleration over those 1.8 hours (and thus the lowest possible acceleration value), the ship would have had to reach a final speed of 220,382,963 m/s (0.73512c), assuming a start from zero. That would be, then, a constant acceleration of just over 34,000 m/s², or over 3,460g. That is 161 times the Falcon's demonstrated plasma-flinging "afterburn" acceleration.

Charon

Gh0stFT · « **Reply #23 on:** April 26, 2005, 03:40:09 PM »

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Originally posted by ASTAC
The Eclipse was said to be crewed by over 700,000 personnel.

lol thats alot meals to serve.
btw. ive never seen a single person eat on the deathstar or
on a star destroyer, not one restaurant, imagine that! ....hmmm strange

Nilsen · « **Reply #24 on:** April 26, 2005, 03:44:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
lol thats alot meals to serve.
btw. ive never seen a single person eat on the deathstar or
on a star destroyer, not one restaurant, imagine that! ....hmmm strange

They can't eat. Just imagine all the turds those 700000 people would make in a day... thats alot of "floaters" to release, and space aint that big!

indy007 · « **Reply #25 on:** April 26, 2005, 03:49:02 PM »

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Originally posted by Charon
You had to go and kill my productivity today, didn't you? Here's one I came across:

http://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWhi2.html

Charon

Just wait until you hit the weapons threads! "In such & such, they vaporised an asteroid. That would take approximately blah blah blah blah. Making it much more powerful than a Phaser or Photon torpedo!"

It's like a car wreck... can't ... not... look!

ps: If you can find a thread about Hand to Hand combat, you've struck gold. Klingons or Borg vs. Storm Troopers! Woo woo!

Nilsen · « **Reply #26 on:** April 26, 2005, 03:55:46 PM »

Oh my cod! star trek vs star wars!!!!

Octavius · « **Reply #27 on:** April 26, 2005, 04:34:37 PM »

and Dune pwnt them all.

GREENTENERAL · « **Reply #28 on:** April 26, 2005, 08:37:26 PM »

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Originally posted by Octavius
and Dune pwnt them all.

I hope you mean the original version!

If not,.. thems fightin wurds!

I beleive those big ships are grossly misrepresented. I have in my possesion a secret document created Lucas and friends, that proves that their choice increment of measument was the "noodle inch" which we all know is much longer than a standard inch.

Octavius · « **Reply #29 on:** April 26, 2005, 08:59:50 PM »

My god man, have you gone MAD!? the books!