de nada -- glad you enjoyed it.

On Wed, 28 May 2003 17:16:10 -0400 "~J. Wolf~" 
writes:
> That was such an awsome site!!! I'm not a big star treck fan or star 
> wars
> (except for the first thre SW films) and I've always loved the 
> ships!
> Incredible!!!
> 
> Barb Jernigan wrote:
> 
> > thought y'all might enjoy having a look see....
> >
> > --------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "Lorax Haven"
> > Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:48:07 -0400 (EDT)
> > Subject: Fwd: Starship Dimensions
> >
> > ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE==================
> > >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.
> > (fwd:)
> > 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.
> >
> > ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================
> 
> --
> The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its 
> limits. ~~~
> Albert Einstein
> 
> 
> 
> 


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