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I'm not kidding when I say for the FIRST time I actually can grasp the size (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A little short for a starship, isn't he?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

305m is 1000 feet. The USS ENTERPRISE was 342m or 1,123 feet.

A modern day FORD class carrier is 1092 ft or 333m.

For personnel comparison, ENTERPRISE held ~5000 people and a FORD class has between 4-5000 people.

The fact that NCC-1701 only had like 1000 people is...a big difference.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I can understand that on a mathematical level, but on a more emotional one, it's hard to process. Just like I know that the speed of light is 186,000 mps, but I can't really fathom how fast that actually is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think the scientific term is "very".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's actually "most"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Well the speed of light is actually faster than you can reasonably comprehend... you can't see or experience the travel time of something going that fast. 300m is not unreasonable to understand once you've experienced it though - that's a big boat, but you can see one and get a sense of the scale.