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

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Have you seen container ships? They're perspective-bendingly massive. 400m is a quarter of a mile.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's like, half of a half mile.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's as if it's two times half of a half of a half of a mile

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

At least three, maybe twenty microwaves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, no need to be silly! I do wonder what it is in thousandths of an inch though. The true freedom unit!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

400 meters is equivalent to around 2,247.19 bananas according to Convert to bananas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Finally I get it!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Thanks because this image still didn’t help. Most people don’t see container ships very often.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody knows what kilometres are.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Really, it's quite easy. Just picture a container ship. Now double it and add an eighth of a mile. Simples.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wait, exploration rigs?

Those things that look like platforms rather than boats?

they can dock?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

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

that's the origin of picard's famous saying "I live my life a 1.304E-14 parsec at a time"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Parsecs are units of distance, Han.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

He took a shortcut.