For me, it was the opposite. I always assumed starships were much larger.
I always thought of the tos enterprise as being an unusually large submarine. The biggest of those irl is impressive enough, and it fits the way tos handles a lot of things.
But, I still thought it was bigger than what this picture shows. I thought of it being about the same length as a cargo vessel built to pass the panama canal, which is, I think what this ship is built for size wise.
panama canal, which is, I think what this ship is built for size wise.
Panamax is the largest vessel size that can traverse the Panama Canal. The dimensions for a Panamax ship max out at 290 meters in length, 32m in width. The Enterprise (no bloody abc or d) is 228m long, 121m wide, and 72m tall.
So this is probably not a Panamax ship but the ship dimensions in the photo appear to be incorrect for Enterprise so I'm not 100% sure.
Props to whomever made that for taking the time to cast an accurate shadow on the cargo ship.
Wdym "made"? It's clearly just a well timed photograph
Suppose I was to purchase one of these container ships. Then suppose I was to anchor it off shore somewhere warm. Then I built a house on there, making boat trips to shore for supplies. Would I have to pay any taxes on my houseboat?
Could bring in loads of dirt, start a garden, more dirt, plant some trees...
I'll maybe let a couple chill people also come aboard, to build houses of their own... maybe.
People have tried that, and failed for various reasons:
- You can't move the ship out of any port without insurance
- Insurance for a rusting hulk isn't cheap
- No nation on earth will let you park your uninsured rusting hulk offshore, as it will pose an environmental and navigational threat to the area
- Even if you anchored outside a country's 12 nautical mile economic exclusion zone doesn't mean their navy/coast guard won't bother you. They have maritime rights outside that area nonetheless.
- You'd still need to take the ship in for maintenance somewhere, and now all your regulatory problems begin again.
This is basically the plot of Waterworld
The maintenance on the steel hull would require a return to territorial waters, at which point you'll need registration (read: taxes). The tender you use to resupply would also require registration and often insurance to enter into marinas.
dang. I just want a cheap private island
You have to remain underway so if you can afford the fuel and maintenance, you can pretty much do whatever you want as long as you can defend yourself from hijackers.
If you try to anchor anywhere, you are going to be harassed or attacked by local militaries even if you’re in international waters.
A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into.
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Each of those boxes is the size of a semi truck. For comparison, Andrew Camerara's castle is about 2 x 2 containers.
As a space boomer I'm a little confused. Could you put the Enterprise next to a real cargo freighter like a Y-Class? Or maybe a J-Class like the ECS Horizon? I've never been inside a non-artificial gravity well so I don't have a frame of reference for terrestrial cargo "ships".
Don’t link fandom you monster!!!
I used to work on a cruise ship, and I am trying to remember if they said it was the biggest cruise ship in the world (at the time) or the biggest ship in the world. It was NCL's Pride of America. I know it's not the biggest now, because even when I was on it they were talking about building another one that was even bigger.
Shit was like a small town. And I had to walk it up and down all day every day sweeping and mopping.
This would suggest that cargo ship crew wear roller skates
