A little short for a starship, isn't he?
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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I remember many years ago seeing a size comparison between an aircraft carrier and the TOS Enterprise. The aircraft carrier was bigger. I didn't even know how to process that because of how big the Enterprise seemed to me.
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.
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.
I think the scientific term is "very".
It's actually "most"
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.