Molecular astrophysicist Invader Xan drew spaceships, real and fictional, to scale.
This, my friends, is an image showing several of the most notable spacecraft we plucky human beings have created (and are busily creating) to date. The past, the present, and the ones that never quite made it. All spacecraft shown are to scale (assuming my sources were accurate). Because I felt I needed to exercise my graphic design muscles. And because, well, let’s face it — space ships are just inherently cool, aren’t they?
Dibs on the Starship Enterprise.
[via Boing Boing]
No Serenity?
I know!!!! I thought the same thing!
The July issue of Astronomy magazine has a cover article on “Project Daedalus,” a billion-dollar study to investigate sending a spacecraft to another star system. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus) The article includes a scale drawing of the proposed spacecraft, which is about the same size as the Empire State Building. The study has ended, but the next project (named “Project Icarus”) also has a starship design.
I wanted to see The Galactica!
Doesn’t the world already have Starship Dimensions?
No Highliner?
Needs a Death Star.
I like the graphic, but your sources about the Enterprise are inaccurate :( The size you depicted is consistent with the TOS or TMP Enterprise, but the picture is of the ST Enterprise, which is considerably larger (725.25m in length as opposed to ~300m). JJ Abrams and co. jacked up the size of the ship so they could depict it having a larger shuttle bay.
where is the battle star galactica?