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From: edward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Sizes
Message-ID: <1835@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 17:16:51 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  1 17:16:51 1985
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In article <753@rayssd.UUCP>, m1b@rayssd.UUCP writes:
> 
> From <712@umn-cs.UUCP> Matthew Goldman writes:
> > Enterprise
> > 	250 - 400 yards long
> > Death Star
> > 	size of a small moon
> > 	50 - 100+ miles in diameter
> > Stardestroyer
> > 	0.5 - 1.5 miles long
> > Super Stardestroyer
> > 	3 - 5 miles long
> > Milinium (sp) Falcon
> > 	>75 yards long
> > Battlestar Galactica
> > 	2.5 - 4.0 miles long
> 
> deduced the size of DS to be a max of 20 miles using the size
> 
> 	The Millenium Falcon is NOT 3/4 of a football field.  There
> are many scenes with a human next to it; I'd say around 25 yards.
> From that, you can determine the size of a Stardestroyer.  The MF
> is on top of one in SW:TESB; say around 25 * MF = ~ 1/3 of a mile
> lengthwise.  Super Stardetroyer is 3 * SD = ~ 1 mile.  Galactica is
> the size of an SD for want of something to compare it to.
> 
	Why all this fuss? I thought size made no diference in performance. :-)

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