Why are the BIG ships so small ?

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
BillD said:
I would throw a car and a Bus into the image mix too.
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Plop a DK2 on someone, and show them a Sidewinder and get them to have a good look around - on average I've found they'll say it's the size of a large caravan. Put them in an Eagle, and it's the size of a passenger jet. Put them in an Asp, and it's the size of an apartment building. I don't have anything larger to put them in :(
 

5PIDER

5PIDER
In comparison against Big Ben, though it seems the Eagle and Sidewinder here are a little large.

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And here is the Type-9, you can see how small the people underneath are compared to the ship.

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MaxamusLead

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5PIDER said:
In comparison against Big Ben, though it seems the Eagle and Sidewinder here are a little large.

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And here is the Type-9, you can see how small the people underneath are compared to the ship.

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i was at first "what people?" then i saw them under the cockpit LOL

yeah there are very big ships, another way to look at it is the weight, type 9 1000 tonnes + 500 tonnes of cargo, yeah same size as lorry right ???
 

Snakebite

Banned
Snakebite
Seonid said:
Humans are incredibly bad at judging scale with no reference points as the OP demonstrates.

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That's the Anaconda on the right next to the Elizabeth Tower which is 315 feet (96m) high. Yeah, tiny.
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Yeh your probably right, scale and speed, its just that to me at least the big ships don't seem that big. I remember the description of the Annaconda from reading the original novel as a kid and the guy in the story flying his Cobra along the underside gave the impression that it was truly massive. I've tried flying a cobra along the underside of a conda and it didn't seem *that* big as I expected. Thats all.

And I still feel that the 'conda and pythons are way too maneuverability, In earlier Elites, again flying a Cobra, I could easily stick on the tail of a Python but in ED its far more difficult with the Python being able to turn so quickly
 

Seonid

Seonid
Snakebite said:
I've tried flying a cobra along the underside of a conda and it didn't seem *that* big as I expected. Thats all.
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The Cobra is a similar size to a Shuttle Orbiter so it itself is not that small, but again you had no real frame of reference to judge the relative sizes. The Anaconda is roughly as long as 2 football pitches and can fly at about 400mph. You can often see people posting that the stars are the "wrong size" as they don't notice that the distance to the star is different, same sort of thing.
 

777Driver

777Driver
Lanciarii90 said:
The same happens with some ships like Clipper, they look smaller in space, you can destroy them under minute, but they are big as Airbus A320.
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The Eagle is roughly the same size as the A320, so that will give you an idea of how big the Clipper is.

Someone mentioned that the Conda is the same size as the 777, the Conda is massive, it would completely dwarf any airliner here on Earth. Standing next to the Anaconda in the DK2 is like being next to a Supertanker in Dry dock. The Type-9 has at least 4 decks
 

Lobstris

Lobstris
This forum has another version of Godwin's Internet Law going doesn't it? If a discussion of scale occurs (i.e. any variant of 'ships are too small!', 'stations are too small!', 'station windows are too small!', 'suns are too small!', 'the docking slot is too small!' or 'planets are too small!') then as the length of the thread increases, the probability of someone posting The Father Ted Video approaches 1.0. :D
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(I agree that the Python seems to have mutated from a lumbering trade ship in the earlier games, to a gunboat in E: D for some reason...)
 

Seonid

Seonid
Another perspective on the Anaconda, most here will remember the accident involving the cruise ship Costa Concordia which looks like this:

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According to Wikipedia that ship is 290m x 35m x 28m (depth+draft) and the Anaconda is roughly 280m x 60m x 30m, so take 2 Concordia class ships out of the water and put them side by side. Then have them fly at 400mph whilst making train noises and you have your Anaconda.
 

withnail

withnail
I'm sure you have just described a steampunk Anaconda!
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Just let me put my Victorian gentlemen's suit on, get the shooting sticks out of the cupboard and I'll be right with you!
 

smartroad

smartroad
I first got a sense of the scale in space with this picture i took

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The center left star is a super red giant and is about 45,000LS away. The star on the right is about 48LS away. So it isn't really interesting on its own, but just to the right of the super red is another star orbiting it and it is nearly the same size as the right star is. For me that was the 'sh*t space is big' moment.
 
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