Spaceships!
This is, quite simply, the coolest thing ever (hat tip Jonah at The Corner):
You can't make out much on this scale (you have to follow the link), but it shows the relative sizes of dozens of Sci-Fi spacecraft from across the genre. There's Star Wars and Star Trek, of course, but also Lexx, Farscape, the old Battlestar Galactica, and Babylon 5. What surprised me is that I knew at least something about all those shows. There was only one which I hadn't seen, but I'd heard about it. Other than that, what can I say? Besides that the Super Star Destroyer is freaking huge! It dwarfs whole space stations from the other sci-fi universes.
Sadly, the Death Star isn't on the chart, but Star Wars just does things on a much grander scale. If you were to include that small moon of a space station, the other ships would be vanishingly small in comparison, and they're hard enough to see as it is.
You can't make out much on this scale (you have to follow the link), but it shows the relative sizes of dozens of Sci-Fi spacecraft from across the genre. There's Star Wars and Star Trek, of course, but also Lexx, Farscape, the old Battlestar Galactica, and Babylon 5. What surprised me is that I knew at least something about all those shows. There was only one which I hadn't seen, but I'd heard about it. Other than that, what can I say? Besides that the Super Star Destroyer is freaking huge! It dwarfs whole space stations from the other sci-fi universes.
Sadly, the Death Star isn't on the chart, but Star Wars just does things on a much grander scale. If you were to include that small moon of a space station, the other ships would be vanishingly small in comparison, and they're hard enough to see as it is.
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