Well it does if, like me, you are a geek. The size I'm referring too is that of starships from various tv shows and movies. I've lost count of the amount of discussions I've had over the years of which ships are bigger/more powerful than others from a different series. So amen to the creator of this site then, who has likely endured many such chats and decided to do something about it.
What he has done is to find the official listed sizes of ships from shows like: Babylon 5, Star Trek, Farscape, Firefly and Lexx; as well as movies like: Star Wars, Starship Troopers, Aliens, Independence Day, and War Of The Worlds (old version, not the Tom Cruise version). He has then pasted pictures of these on pages, using the same size scale for each, so the pictures are shown at sizes relative to each other.
Very interesting (to a geek anyway) to be able to see easily just how massive some of these ships are. The scale goes up to and above the Death Star, showing at the extreme end of the range absolutely massive creations such as the Ringworld (from Larry Niven's novels) and a Dyson Sphere. There are a few notable omissions that I noticed such as: Red Dwarf, a Cylon Basestar (from Battlestar Galactica), Prometheus and Daedalus class battlecruisers (from Stargate SG-1/Atlantis), Wraith Hive Ship (from Stargate Atlantis).
It is nice too from the point of view of a Babylon 5 fan like myself, to see just how badly the B5 ships piss all over the crappy Star Trek ones! The USS Enterprise NCC1701-E (a Sovereign class cruiser) is the biggest ship the Federation has ever built... it would get eaten alive by an Earth Alliance Omega Destroyer and that's not even the meanest ship the EA can field! Of course saying that, a Super Star Destroyer would take anything in a fight!
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