Thanks because this image still didn’t help. Most people don’t see container ships very often.
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Have you seen container ships? They’re perpective-bendingly massive. 400m is a quarter of a mile.
PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 11 months ago
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Or 40% of a kilometre.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nobody knows what kilometres are.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Really, it’s quite easy. Just picture a container ship. Now double it and add an eighth of a mile. Simples.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sorry, they use miles in Star Trek. Ha ha, America wins. Stupid Europe and your stupid metric system and stupid rail network and stupid universal healthcare.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Never heard them use fantasy imperial system, are you sure?
Maybe in TOS, but didn’t see much of that. But definitely not in TNG and everything that followed.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Album@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yeah but youre also saying that the bridge of the enterprise was about the size of a container, which i am not sure is accurate.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Have you seen a container?
Gordon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
52ft or something long. Go look for a RV or camper. Simply because they are sold by the foot.
A 40ft camper is pretty huge and can easily fit 6-10 people comfortably.
People turn containers into apartment type buildings for a family of 2-3.
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We get oil exploration rigs docking in our little port downtown. Mind bending is right.
Sat in the park and watched one roll in one day. Went from:
There it is!
Damn, looks pretty big.
My. God.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
wait, exploration rigs?
Those things that look like platforms rather than boats?
they can dock?
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah, you’re talking about drilling platforms that are pretty much set in place. These are giant ships that explore and lay pipe.
Not sure which one this is, but it’s what I’m talking about.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You know I’m something of a giant ship that can lay pipe myself.
but that’s a great picture to show this scaled in
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Even those things aren’t build on location. They build them on land and then sail them to the location they want.
They can even be moved after they were done drilling
caesar_salad83@lemmy.world 11 months ago
that’s the origin of picard’s famous saying “I live my life a 1.304E-14 parsec at a time”
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Parsecs are units of distance, Han.
Hotdogman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s like, half of a half mile.
soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I came to Lemmy to avoid this Reddit style comment
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s funny. I came to Lemmy to avoid this style of comment where somebody has nothing to add except negativity. I get you don’t like it, but for the “culture” of Lemmy, please just use the freaking downvote button in cases like this
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Or just block the user.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Going to Lemmy to avoid this type of comment is like going to Arby’s to avoid diarrhea.
RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I came to Lemmy to avoid libelous commentary about Arby’s!
Palerider@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Humans gonna be Human.
kaitco@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This.
Haywire@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Word
Szymon@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s as if it’s two times half of a half of a half of a mile
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can you put it into bananas?
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 11 months ago
At least three, maybe twenty microwaves
joelfromaus@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Hey, no need to be silly! I do wonder what it is in thousandths of an inch though. The true freedom unit!
Teal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Around 4,545 bananas according to Convert to bananas
nexguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Finally I get it!