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When is big too big in science fiction?
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Not /m/.
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>>24004077
>not /m/
>Exelio Variable Gravity Well from Diebuster is right there
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>>24004696
And Unicron. Surprised there's no Gunbuster or TTGL.
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>>24004696
Okay? Your stupid thread is still not /m/.
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>>24004759
Im not the OP schizoid
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>>24004706
There's things from GL in the bottom right corner. Buster Machine 3 is also under the Exelio, but is invisible in OP's ant sized version.
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>>24004807
They got Trantor wrong. Movie Unicron is bigger than Earth? Also, wtf is Orions Arm?
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>>24004835
>wtf is Orions Arm?
it's what goes into Orions your mom
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>>24004835
>They got Trantor wrong. Movie Unicron is bigger than Earth?
To answer those criticisms, someone would have to watch the Foundation series and Bayformers... 6? Neither seems worthwhile.
>Also, wtf is Orions Arm?
Big open hard SF setting that's been going for like twenty years. I've skimmed bits of it off and on; seems neat enough.
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>>24004864
>watch
>Foundation
>series
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Whatever the fuck the Germans are writing
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>>24004864
Trantor is supposed to be the size of Titan. The scale of those rings means the population would be a minimum of 5 miles tall.
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>>24004867
Yes, yes, the point is that the picture is clearly referencing that and not the books.
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>>24004973
Sad this is what waiting gets you
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when you are bigger than the ttgl i guess
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>>24005602
I read somewhere that Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is larger than the observable universe. No idea how true that is.
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>>24005856
Neither of the TTGL were as big as they seems, as they're fighting in a arena made by the Antispirals (use their homeworld on top of their head for true size reference).
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>>24005856
>>24005907
Nothing is larger than the Anime Clitoris.
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I have to spoil a little bit of the setting, but in pic related, the protagonist is exploring a massive Dyson sphere(?) that seems to have been built around a black hole/something similarly extremely dense. Scale matters if you can justify it. In this case, a precursor civilization built it, so it makes sense to have it be an impossibly, ridiculously huge megastructure. The book is good too, not 10/10 change your life but solid.
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>>24006048
Rama book series is kind of like that. People happen on near moon size space colony absolutely deserted in space and they try to figure out the science by it.

Lots of power heads are thinking they can use this to escape the solar system and many others think it's a trap. Very interesting.
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>>24006068
I only ever read Rendezvous with Rama, I did not know that there were more books. Thanks, anon.
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>>24006248
Don't thank him yet. They're fucking terrible. Some cool ideas, but the vast majority (which I assume are 100% Gentry Lee) are insufferable. I've only stopped reading one book series once I started, but this brought me damn close to adding another, and I really liked Rendezvous with Rama.
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Never
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>>24006048
You should see the Novacula in Foundation S3
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>>24006530
How big again?
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>>24006530
That shit is ridiculously big, to the point it might as well just be one big, fancy galaxy.
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>>24006614
>>24006677
100 times bigger than the Milky way (Diameter-wise)
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>>24007938
Largest in sci fi literature
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>>24008247
Surely that'd be the Cosmic AC.
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>>24004925
I don't think they make'em that big in the Rhodanverse. In that setting, a mere 8 kilometer is considered way big already. For comparison, a generic generation ship top out below two kilometers.
The largest mobile space structure probably is Wanderer, which is a discworld created by and under the ownership of a quasi-divine entity.
It's merely 8000 kilometers in diameter.
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>>24008249
?
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>>24004073
When is small too small in images with text that's meant to be read?
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>>24008310
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
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>>24008373
Give me a few. Need to get the originals but can only post them in /hr/
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>>24004835
>Also, wtf is Orions Arm?
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=orion%27s+arm



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