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I'm not kidding when I say for the FIRST time I actually can grasp the size
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A little short for a starship, isn't he?
Have you seen container ships? They're perspective-bendingly massive. 400m is a quarter of a mile.
That's like, half of a half mile.
It's as if it's two times half of a half of a half of a mile
How much is that in bananas?
At least three, maybe twenty microwaves
Hey, no need to be silly! I do wonder what it is in thousandths of an inch though. The true freedom unit!
400 meters is equivalent to around 2,247.19 bananas according to Convert to bananas
Finally I get it!
I came to Lemmy to avoid this Reddit style comment
That's funny. I came to Lemmy to avoid this style of comment where somebody has nothing to add except negativity. I get you don't like it, but for the "culture" of Lemmy, please just use the freaking downvote button in cases like this
Or just block the user.
Going to Lemmy to avoid this type of comment is like going to Arby's to avoid diarrhea.
I came to Lemmy to avoid libelous commentary about Arby's!
I come to Lemmy because of Arby’s diarrhea.
Humans gonna be Human.
This.
Word
And my axe :(
Thanks because this image still didn’t help. Most people don’t see container ships very often.
Or 40% of a kilometre.
Sorry, they use miles in Star Trek. Ha ha, America wins. Stupid Europe and your stupid metric system and stupid rail network and stupid universal healthcare.
Never heard them use fantasy imperial system, are you sure?
Maybe in TOS, but didn't see much of that. But definitely not in TNG and everything that followed.
Definitely in TOS.
Nobody knows what kilometres are.
Really, it's quite easy. Just picture a container ship. Now double it and add an eighth of a mile. Simples.
Yeah but youre also saying that the bridge of the enterprise was about the size of a container, which i am not sure is accurate.
Have you seen a container?
52ft or something long. Go look for a RV or camper. Simply because they are sold by the foot.
A 40ft camper is pretty huge and can easily fit 6-10 people comfortably.
People turn containers into apartment type buildings for a family of 2-3.
We get oil exploration rigs docking in our little port downtown. Mind bending is right.
Sat in the park and watched one roll in one day. Went from:
There it is!
Damn, looks pretty big.
My. God.
wait, exploration rigs?
Those things that look like platforms rather than boats?
they can dock?
Nah, you're talking about drilling platforms that are pretty much set in place. These are giant ships that explore and lay pipe.
Not sure which one this is, but it's what I'm talking about.
You know I'm something of a giant ship that can lay pipe myself.
but that's a great picture to show this scaled in
Even those things aren't build on location. They build them on land and then sail them to the location they want.
They can even be moved after they were done drilling
that's the origin of picard's famous saying "I live my life a 1.304E-14 parsec at a time"
Parsecs are units of distance, Han.
He took a shortcut.