The Marathon was tiny?


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The Marathon was tiny?

Posted By: Forrest of B.org Date: 4/26/07 10:41 p.m.

I was recently pointed to this site, showcasing a variety of different starships and spacestations (and apparently people and creatures) from science fiction, all to scale; from the tiny Tardis to the daunting Dyson Sphere:
http://merzo.net/
Click on the second to largest scale, "-2000X". This page is arranged in descending order of size. At the top, at 10,000 km across, is Halo. Well, about half of it; and in the background is maybe a quarter of the Earth's moon. At the very bottom, for no particular reason it seems, is the Martian moon Phobos, at 27 km x 23 km x 20 km. Deimos, from which the Marathon was made, was even smaller than that - according to Wikipedia, only 15 km × 12 km × 10 km. For comparison, the Death Star (which was the first comparable object that came to my mind when I first heard of the Marathon) is 120-160km across (depending on which version, I or II).
So it seems our dear Marathon, which all along I had pictured as this massive behemoth of a moon, not as big as our own but still on roughly the same scale, is smaller across at it's widest than the city I live in. The Pfhor scoutship was over 1/5 the length of the Marathon, by these figures.
Kind of disappointing :-(

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The Marathon was tiny? Forrest of B.org 4/26/07 10:41 p.m.

Re: The Marathon was tiny? thermoplyae 4/26/07 11:26 p.m.

Re: The Marathon was tiny? Vid Boi 4/27/07 5:48 a.m.

Re: The Marathon was tiny? goran 4/27/07 5:55 a.m.

Re: The Marathon was tiny? Nicholai 4/28/07 1:27 p.m.

Re: The Marathon was tiny? *NM* goran 4/27/07 5:44 a.m.

double posts goran 4/27/07 5:54 a.m.

Re: double posts Johannes Gunnar 4/27/07 8:29 a.m.

Re: double posts Forrest of B.org 4/27/07 9:14 a.m.

Re: double posts Alexander Smith 4/28/07 5:40 p.m.

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: I was recently pointed to this site, showcasing a variety of different : starships and spacestations (and apparently people and creatures) from : science fiction, all to scale; from the tiny Tardis to the daunting Dyson : Sphere: http://merzo.net/ : Click on the second to largest scale, "-2000X". This page is : arranged in descending order of size. At the top, at 10,000 km across, is : Halo. Well, about half of it; and in the background is maybe a quarter of : the Earth's moon. At the very bottom, for no particular reason it seems, : is the Martian moon Phobos, at 27 km x 23 km x 20 km. Deimos, from which : the Marathon was made, was even smaller than that - according to : Wikipedia, only 15 km × 12 km × 10 km. For comparison, the Death Star : (which was the first comparable object that came to my mind when I first : heard of the Marathon) is 120-160km across (depending on which version, I : or II). : So it seems our dear Marathon, which all along I had pictured as this massive : behemoth of a moon, not as big as our own but still on roughly the same : scale, is smaller across at it's widest than the city I live in. The Pfhor : scoutship was over 1/5 the length of the Marathon, by these figures. : Kind of disappointing :-(

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The Marathon was tiny?	Forrest of B.org	4/26/07 10:41 p.m.
Re: The Marathon was tiny?	thermoplyae	4/26/07 11:26 p.m.
Re: The Marathon was tiny?	Vid Boi	4/27/07 5:48 a.m.
Re: The Marathon was tiny?	goran	4/27/07 5:55 a.m.
Re: The Marathon was tiny?	Nicholai	4/28/07 1:27 p.m.
Re: The Marathon was tiny? NM	goran	4/27/07 5:44 a.m.
double posts	goran	4/27/07 5:54 a.m.
Re: double posts	Johannes Gunnar	4/27/07 8:29 a.m.
Re: double posts	Forrest of B.org	4/27/07 9:14 a.m.
Re: double posts	Alexander Smith	4/28/07 5:40 p.m.



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