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
>
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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.
> (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.
>
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