thought y'all might enjoy having a look see....

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From: "Lorax Haven" 
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:48:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Fwd: Starship Dimensions

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>To: ASFS 
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 23:41:37 -0400
>Subject: [ASFS] forward from Libertycon list


Another cool item from the Libertycon list:
j.
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From: Jean Goddin 

Starship Dimensions
        http://www.merzo.net/

Hollywood has given us all sorts of mock starships, but if they were 
really built to scale, how large would they actually be? Jeff Russell 
rescues sci-fi fans by creating a site that uses a pixel-to-meter gauge 
for over 200 ships from "Star Trek", "Babylon 5",
"Star Wars", and more. 
An enormous Boeing 747 dominates the 10x page -- even the giant Plasma 
Bug from "Starship Troopers" is dwarfed by it. On the 1x page, you can 
drag down "Star Trek"'s Galaxy class starship and place it next to the 
"Trek" Constitution class to compare the ships captained by Picard and 
Kirk, respectively. Things start to get really big at the -10x page. The 
Island Two space colony (a proposed NASA project) overwhelms even the 
giant Super Star Destroyer and the Borg cube. In the background of the 
-2000x page is the Earth's Moon. Only the Zentraedi Fulbtzs 
Berrentzs-class Home Base from the "Robotech" cartoon series can 
compare. The painstaking research behind this site certainly puts things 
like a Klingon Bird of Prey in its proper perspective.



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