Comparison chart of 20 real life spaceships with the Starship Enterprise

io9:

Check out this elegant infographic by Invader Xan, molecular astrophysicist and master of ceremonies at astronomy blog Supernova Condensate. Here, silhouetted in colors that correspond to their present state of operation, you’ll find twenty iconic spaceships and space stations situated beneath the only fictional spacecraft of the bunch: the U.S.S. Enterprise. What’s great about this image is that all the spacecraft have been drawn to scale. This gives you a real sense of perspective.

I love that he has listed the Starship Enterprise as “in development”.



  • http://www.theuniversalsteve.com SSteve

    So why is it that people can be rational in comparing existing space ships to space ships that are in development but they go all hyperbolic when it’s tablets?

  • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

    It’s the wrong Enterprise.

    • obiwandreas

      Yep; he used the one from the gorram reboot