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Jan 16, 2021 15:02:44   #
Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio
 
A fun Youtube video I stumbled across. It displays fictional TV and movie spaceships models ranked by their purported size. Intersperced are some actual space craft for size comparisons. Note: the international space station is the most expensive object ever built by mankind at $160 billion+ for reference to some of the other craft shown here. Missing, that I would have liked to have seen, are the original saucer from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and the craft from "Close Encounters..." Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTPwbVqU6lc&feature=emb_rel_end

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Jan 16, 2021 15:22:47   #
lbrande
 
Very interesting. Not much into games, so some of the references I do not know, Halo, Mass Effect.

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Jan 16, 2021 16:23:15   #
Toment Loc: FL, IL
 
Big deal😄😄😄

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Jan 16, 2021 16:37:23   #
torchman310 Loc: Santa Clarita, Ca.
 
I love it. Thanks for this look

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Jan 16, 2021 19:46:04   #
Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio
 
I remember a couple of years ago, some astronomers were arguing that the way a particular star's light was fluctuating was an indication of a Dyson sphere. Don't remember the outcome but it wasn't a Dyson sphere.

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Jan 17, 2021 07:43:32   #
Orson Burleigh Loc: Annapolis, Maryland, USA
 
Reuss Griffiths wrote:
A fun Youtube video I stumbled across. It displays fictional TV and movie spaceships models ranked by their purported size. Intersperced are some actual space craft for size comparisons. Note: the international space station is the most expensive object ever built by mankind at $160 billion+ for reference to some of the other craft shown here. Missing, that I would have liked to have seen, are the original saucer from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and the craft from "Close Encounters..." Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTPwbVqU6lc&feature=emb_rel_end
A fun Youtube video I stumbled across. It display... (show quote)


That the Jupiter Mining Corporation’s Mining Ship Red Dwarf was included made my morning. Thanks.

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Jan 17, 2021 08:28:21   #
sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md
 
missed buck rogers and flash gordon's ships.......

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Jan 17, 2021 10:01:44   #
fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH
 
Like others here, I didn't recognize a lot of the spaceships and it was interesting to see the size difference between the two Star Trek starships and the two Star Wars Death Stars. I was also glad they included the Ringworld "space ship" which was a favorite book of mine.

Hey when did it become necessary for YouTube to start sticking advertisements in the middle of posted clips? I didn't mind starting or ending with an ad but it's really annoying to be enjoying a particular clip and to suddenly be blasted with an idiotic laxative or luxury car ad.

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Jan 17, 2021 11:21:17   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Yes, I've seen that before. Interesting.

Also interesting is a size comparison of different stars. Our sun looks like a speck of sand in comparison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&safe=active

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Jan 17, 2021 13:10:09   #
bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
 
Reuss Griffiths wrote:
A fun Youtube video I stumbled across. It displays fictional TV and movie spaceships models ranked by their purported size. Intersperced are some actual space craft for size comparisons. Note: the international space station is the most expensive object ever built by mankind at $160 billion+ for reference to some of the other craft shown here. Missing, that I would have liked to have seen, are the original saucer from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and the craft from "Close Encounters..." Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTPwbVqU6lc&feature=emb_rel_end
A fun Youtube video I stumbled across. It display... (show quote)

Neat stuff!

bwa

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Jan 17, 2021 14:06:23   #
Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Yes, I've seen that before. Interesting.

Also interesting is a size comparison of different stars. Our sun looks like a speck of sand in comparison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&safe=active


I also stumbled on a "size comparison" that a little broader than this one. Ten to the minus 35 power to Ten to the plus 35 power, essentially the whole known universe (as of now). Only 70 powers but demonstrates we have no concept of really small and really large numbers because there is nothing relative to compare them to. Will post it in a couple of days.

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Jan 18, 2021 11:46:54   #
EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace
 
fourlocks wrote:
Hey when did it become necessary for YouTube to start sticking advertisements in the middle of posted clips? I didn't mind starting or ending with an ad but it's really annoying to be enjoying a particular clip and to suddenly be blasted with an idiotic laxative or luxury car ad.
They have been doing that for a while. I find it annoying, also. You can still skip the ad after about 5 seconds on most ads, but not all. You're trapped for the full 20, 30, 40 or more seconds.

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Jan 18, 2021 13:59:36   #
bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
 
EdJ0307 wrote:
They have been doing that for a while. I find it annoying, also. You can still skip the ad after about 5 seconds on most ads, but not all. You're trapped for the full 20, 30, 40 or more seconds.

I make a note of the really long ones to never buy anything they're advertising!

bwa

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Jan 19, 2021 09:00:46   #
petrochemist Loc: UK
 
Somewhere I've got a JPG showing much the same comparison.
I can't access YouTube at work so don't know how similar they are.

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