Exactly, Cory. Which is why I say: Look at the city growing around the ship in the first episode. It's got to be significantly larger than 1200m for the city to build up around it the way it did. Thus my estimate of it as about 3200m - roughly 2 miles.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Cory Holmes <cory_holmes@hotmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:53 pm
Subject: [FFML] Re: [INFO] Macross can easily hold 78,000

One thing you're forgetting isn't how much space is available per 
person, is
how much OPEN space is available.  Sure, you can get a lot of room per
person, but not nearly enough to have full skyscrapers (even three 
storybuildings), roads, traffic lights, or intersections. 

 

As you say, the SDF-1 is 1,200m long.  Take off the front half of 
that for
the main gun, leaving 600m of space for the rest of the ship, 
lengthwise. 
Take off a bit of that 600m for the main engines at the back, 
leaving, say,
500m of ship space, again, in the lengthwise dimension. 

So if you take the very radical position that all of that 500m was 
for the
city, totally ignoring the need for hanger space, manufacturing 
centres,other storage spaces, etc., then you can get an idea about 
how some of us
take issue with cramming a whole city into that space.  500m is 
hardly long
enough for more than a few city blocks.  And when you acknowledge 
that there
are things in the ship other than the city, the available room 
decreasesgreatly. 

So using that arguement alone, it quickly becomes obvious how some 
of us
feelthat the ship has to be up-scaled to make room for what we see 
in the
show itself, and what is stated as canon information.  

And as for your comparison with a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier... 
do recall
that the vast majority of the crew of ships like that have little 
more than
abunk and a footlocker for a living space, and even then, the 
bunks are
sometimes shared between three crewmembers.  There's no way to 
account for
all the personal space observed in the SDF-1. 

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