Onno Meyer wrote:
One more idea: how big is a worldship?
Imagine a 200m ball placed among the skyline of Manhattan. It
would be wider than the sykscrapers, sure, but also less high.
Not all that mind-shattering. But at a sufficiently high TL,
it could transport 1.25 megatons of cargo or 1 megapassenger.
Now imagine a 2,000m ball. That would dwarf the skyscrapers of
any metropolis impressively. It could carry 1 gigapassenger if
there was a plausible scenario how to get it loaded before the
first die of old age. A modest increase in diameter, 2,500m,
gives enough space to carry roughly a gigaton of cargo in
addition to the gigapeople. A ton could keep a light infantry
trooper for quite some time.
That still assumes bunks. Double the diameter to 5 km, and it
can take a billion people in single cabins.
So, is a 5 km / 3 mile sphere insanely large for a ship, or
is it insanely small for the population of most continents?
Has anyone done size estimates on the motherships from the new reboot of
"V"?
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