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Thursday 9 June 2022

WHAT IS THE BIGGEST SHIP IN SCIENCE FICTION?

Doing the Starship post today got me a wonderin' if it was the biggest ship in all of sci-fi'dom! After all, its seven miles long!

In my mind I had the Death Star maybe or those huge citywide craft in Childhood's End, emulated in Independence Day. Just how big are those?

Dirk Loechler of Deviant Art has clearly been pondering the same conundrum about sci-fi's ships and he's produced a mind-boggling graphic. See anything you know readers? Can't see the Zero-X!

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16 comments:

  1. KevinD6/09/2022 5:23 pm

    The Daria in Space 1999 is over 20 miles long.

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  2. Bill Everatt6/09/2022 5:48 pm

    I think the Zero-X would be barely visible as it's a very thin craft and dark blue. Plus very small on this scale.

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    1. WOODSY6/10/2022 7:48 pm

      I once started a Project SWORD scale with the OX the biggest ship by far Bill.

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    2. Bill Everatt6/11/2022 10:43 am

      Yes Paul, the Zero-X is the biggest of the lot, although Thunderbird 5 is a pretty big lump of technology. Once in space, The Zero-X reminds me a little of the USS Discovery as they are both long thin spacecraft.

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    3. WOODSY6/11/2022 2:02 pm

      Here's a neat scale graphic Bill. You're right, the OX is king! https://www.deviantart.com/chrisofedf/art/Anderverse-Vehicle-Size-chart-474427090

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  3. Hugh Walter6/09/2022 11:12 pm

    There's was a Youtube Vid' which took this to bigger than star-system size, the above are all small-fry! It doesn't seem to be there anymore, it was called "fictional starships size comparison", but you can find reaction videos to it, or this one goes to planet sized . . .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Loc7qX7FI

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  4. BrianF6/10/2022 2:45 pm

    Read Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.I think we have a contender!

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    1. WOODSY6/11/2022 10:03 am

      Fascinating Brian and all new to me! I've just read up on Rama and its fabulous. I love the landscape inside the ship, the Central Plain! It reckons on Wiki that's its being made into a movie!

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  5. KevinD6/10/2022 5:22 pm

    V'ger in Star Trek the (slow)motion picture generates a power field that is 82 Astronomical Units in diameter but I'm not sure how big the ship itself was.

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    1. WOODSY6/11/2022 10:04 am

      82 AU! Now that's a whopper Kev. I love that name, V'ger!

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  6. Anonymous6/12/2022 7:42 am

    The biggest was from Gurren Lagann, but the largest in books was from Cordwainer Smith:

    https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20191017

    http://www.decadecounter.com/readingroom/smithc.htm

    https://www.amazon.com/Best-Cordwainer-Smith-ebook/dp/B071DRV5PR

    https://orionsarm.com/forum/archive/index.php?thread-1203-2.html

    This was an inflatable bluff mostly.

    Space arks
    https://www.tor.com/2021/03/18/9-fascinating-spaceship-societies/

    Real ship concepts
    https://up-ship.com/blog/?p=7249
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuate_Earth

    The largest concept is Benford’s Shipstar

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    1. WOODSY6/12/2022 1:47 pm

      Thanks for the links! Some amazing craft there. They're just getting bigger and bigger!

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  7. Anonymous6/13/2022 7:29 am

    In real life, China is looking at a 1km solar powersat:

    https://interestingengineering.com/chinas-orbital-solar-power-station

    https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/space-based-solar-power.267454/


    In the first part of this video…we see China spaceplanes:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93CYzQIXyhA&feature=emb_logo

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    1. WOODSY6/13/2022 7:20 pm

      Fascinating links, thank you. Massive plans for the future!

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