Okay, so we all know intellectually that those imaginary spaceships we love in movies and on TV would be really frakkin’ big if they were real, but do you have a genuine, visceral sense for how big<\/i>? Have a look at the image below:<\/p>\n
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That’s the handiwork of one Jason Fortuny, who decided to see how the U.S.S. Enterprise<\/i> (the Next Generation<\/i> version) would relate to his home town of Seattle. Various sources put the ship’s official length at 643 meters. As you can see, that’s gobsmackingly big in relation to real-world objects we can actually relate to, about seven city blocks long. Click the image to see it larger, and then click through to Jason’s site<\/a> to see the ship’s silhouette laid over a GoogleEarth map of the city. Neat stuff…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, so we all know intellectually that those imaginary spaceships we love in movies and on TV would be really frakkin’ big if they were real, but do you have a genuine, visceral sense for how big? Have a look at the image below: ***IMAGE MISSING*** That’s the handiwork of one Jason Fortuny, who decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}