Big ship.

Pic gives me strain in the neck

>>14

How is that possible? WHAT IS THAT FROM? DO FUCKING WANT!

big ship is about to be bombarded by tiny planets.
gravity <3

If the ship is that big, what the hell is it made out of?

>>45
Smaller ships.

>>46
Did you know molecules are little ships?

>>45
strings

might actually not be as ridiculously huge as you guys would at first imagine. planetary bodies only need to be a few hundred kilometers across to become round. mind you larger helps, and smaller bodies can be made round by forces independent of their own gravity, as well.

what's interesting to me is that this may actually be possible. when you consider that ships are mostly empty space and that gravity drops of in a 1/(r²) manner, a ship made of strong materials could conceivably reach this size.

>>52
String theory?

>>56
Ah, but define "planet."

>>57
you'll notice I very carefully said "planetary body" instead of planet. the exact definition of a planet is a little fuzzy even among astronomers. For example, Ganymede and Titan are larger than Mercury, which is larger than the moon. Don't even get me started on Pluto.

>>59
I've always agreed with the definition that a planet is anything directly orbiting a star that's not a comet and has enough gravity to stay round.

>>65
and what's a comet?

>>65
unfortunately, this definition would also make several of the larger asteroids into planets. there are predicted to be quite a few in the kuiper belt that would meet this qualification.

http://www.nineplanets.org/kboc.html

" In late 2002, a Kuiper Belt object over 1000 km in diameter was discovered and provisionally designated 2002 LM60 "Quaoar". In early 2004 an even larger one, 2004 DW, was found (its size isn't well known yet, but it's almost certainly smaller than Pluto). And in late 2005 the discovery of 2003 UB313 (now officially named "Eris") was announced; it is very likely somewhat larger than Pluto.

It is estimated that there are at least 35,000 Kuiper Belt objects greater than 100 km in diameter, which is several hundred times the number (and mass) of similar sized objects in the main asteroid belt. "

>>66
A frozen chunk of stuff with an irregular orbit.

>>67
Define asteroid.

>>67
I don't mind a lot of asteroids being called planets. It makes more sense to call big things that "clear the neighborhood" "neighborhood clearing planets" and everything else that orbits a star a "planet" than to call those big things planets and something else a "dwarf planet". At least hyphenate "dwarf-planet"! Come on!

to me:
a) There were originally nine "planets".
b) The discovery of "Xena" (Eris) should only add to that amount, and Ceres ought to be included.
c) Since Pluto and Ceres were the first so-called "dwarf planets" to be discovered, and Eris fanned the flames of this controversy over dwarf planets anyhow, they are more important than other "dwarf planets", so we have the following categories: Planets that clear the neighborhood, moons of those planets, Pluto/Charon, Eris, and Ceres, other "dwarf planets" and whatever moons they have, and asteroids and whatever moons they have (and, yes, some asteroids have been found to have moons).

I agree with >>65. There are numerous planets in the solar system, eight of which have cleared their orbits, and the rest of which are "dwarf planets". There are also asteroids, which have weird shapes, and comets.

>>31 that probably couldn't be a planet, on account of it's artificial and probably doesn't orbit a star most of the time anyway. (However, I don't know whether gravity makes it round at all.) It does have neighborhood clearing power, as demonstrated by its demolition of Alderaan.

>>75

> probably doesn't orbit a star most of the time anyway

Of course not – it is a star!

>>14
Forced perspective?

Would be incredible if the planetary bodies actually orbited the ship, including the sun. "Someone get the star away from the ship! I don't want the inevitability of a Black Hole forming up my arse!"

>>45
Yeah, if those are planets, where did all the raw material for making that ship come from?

>>136
You have no scope of the universe, do you? Even if that is a planet compared to that ship. There are still suns that are GIGANTIC compared to that. And galaxies? That ship wouldn't even be a speck compared to those, and the universe? That ship would be insignificant compared to its grandeur.

>>137
And your point is?
This board is "big things", not "the single biggest thing ever".

Planets can't be small, or they get pluto'ed. /thread

Compared to the Ringworld, this is Nothing! NOTHING!

What the fuck :O

>>138

He was replying to the "where did the raw materials come from?" comment in >>136.

He wasn't denying that the ship is unimaginably huge. He was simply pointing out that there are plenty of other huge things out there that contain enough raw materials to construct such a monstrosity.

solar system this is ship, you'll be getting to be close friends.

>>156

Which is where Gurren Lagann's credibility falls to bits. There simply isn't enough matter in he observable universe to build ONE such mecha, never mind TWO (last ep).

I'm curious to what accelerates that thing forward :D

>>179
A very large number of the engines shown in >>120, perhaps.

>>180

What are they using as a fuel source. Stars?

ever think that they aren't planets ,but other ships? doesn't have to be unimaginably huge.

This picture is:

1. A ship with orb shaped probes near it
2. An impressionistic/symbolic representation

I like choice 1

>>196
3. A ship so huge it has planets in orbit around it.

>>197

More like moons. Maybe it's powered off the molten heat in planets and moons, and the ones that are out side of the ship are dead cells.

Anyone have a higher-res version of the OP?

>>200
That's no moon!

shit