An epic chart comparing every science fiction spaceship ever

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All good points. This was just my speculation - trying to get at the difference between what present day humans have actually done and what human SF writers think makes a good story, versus what a sufficiently advanced spacefaring civilization might actually do. Thanks for the extra info!

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Today I learned a new phrase: “size queenery”.

I suspect I was better off without it, though.

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All ships are technically space time ships.

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It has about the same frame rate too!

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You’ve got an interesting notion of “streamlining” if you think it applies to 99% of those.

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According to the creator, the TARDIS is in fact there. It’s parked on the Red Dwarf, occupying one quarter of a pixel, and it also contains the entire image and everything in it.

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I have to start a movement getting professional writers to stop misusing the word “epic”. Lovely Graphics and all that, but there is nothing heroic about it.

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Will it be an… wait for it… epic movement? :smiley:

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I had one of those this morning. The bathroom was off limits for hours.

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In WW1 the trick was an empty artillery shell, hanging in the trench and banged with a piece of metal to signal a chemical attack. From that the bang-a-metal-object routine developed. At my elementary school we had a red-painted piece of pipe “knee” hanging next to the principal’s office for that purpose. It’s just a few days when I learned about its trench pedigree.

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Well, it’s directly applicable to the situation; a “size queen” is someone who’s overly concerned about penis size.

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Oh yes indeed!!! it will be a truly heroic, herculean, and very frustrating endeavor. Peeps just seem to want to talk like a 1950’s sitcom character; Maynard G. Krebs.

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You a mathematician by chance? Did you work it out with a pencil? Just a rhetorical question by the way. I haven’t had to talk potty matters with an infant in many moons now.

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For that matter, the Carrier from the graphic novel The Authority should also be included. Its big enough to place on the map, that’s for sure!

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Oh, yeah, I googled it. (Which is why I said I was probably better off not knowing, if you get my drift.)

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