Comment on I'm not kidding when I say for the FIRST time I actually can grasp the size

• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But people mainly occupy the saucer portion right? Like they don’t live in the engines.

  Looking at OPs pic, that saucer is very small compared to the container ship.

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• winterayars@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oxygen is an issue, but heat generation is also an issue.

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  • JWBananas@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Actually the thing they often get wrong in depictions of life support failure is that the ship would get too hot. The vacuum of space insulates the ship.

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