The battlestar Valkyrie: How to compare the sizes of fictional ships

"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be." –Lord Kelvin
How big are fictional spaceships? How do we KNOW? We don't just ask the showrunners; even if they have a number they've invented, that's dogmatics. Wherever possible, we get answers by MEASURING things. If a CG model includes a CG representation of a real, physical object that we can measure, or the size of which is known (whether it's a Raptor or a Racetrack or even a Viper launch tube) we can may assume that the CG representation is the same size as the real thing, which often lets us calculate the overall size of the model. And if that same CG representation is present on another model, we can calculate the size of that one, too.

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