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11-24-07: So, in case you're wondering (and I know you are), I do have a perfectly good excuse for a total lack of updates for the past 5-and-a-half months. More than one, actually. First, I've been helluva-busy. Second, I've been working in my virtually non-existent spare time on what may end up being a massive overhaul of the site. I didn't want to mention it at first, but as the days have ticked by and I've kept noticing that the last update on here was from June, I figured I ought to say something. So here it is. :P 06-11-07: Mea culpa. See, way back when on the STrek forum someone whose name now escapes me caught a math error of mine on the Death Star scaling page regarding DS1. And though it seemed like he had a point, something just didn't feel right with the way the math worked otherwise. Part of the problem was simply that the DS1 and DS2 sizes fit elegantly with the conclusion I had, whereas the alternative would force a contradiction. And some of it was just gut feeling. And, too, some of it was sheer laziness on my part, since I tied the matter to the enormous task of determining the scales of Star Wars vessels based on the canon alone (instead of accepting out-of-universe stats like a 1600m Star Destroyer), and that's one project I've managed to procrastinate on quite efficiently. And though I've always said when the topic of the Death Star I size has come up that yes, there may be a problem there with my scaling, I never got around to doing anything more about it. But at long last, the time has come. And there wasn't just one error . . . there were two. At one point I'd counted three pixels when I ought to have counted as many as five . . . which is a problem when each one counted for hundreds of meters and were being used to scale something else. It was entirely my fault for picking a too-distant image to scale from instead of something better. As luck would have it, the two errors cancelled out to within a few percentage points. Sometimes, the gut is right. So, without further ado, take a peek at the revised Death Star scaling page, now with HD shots from ANH (no more 3px scalings for me). 06-06-07: I've updated with some special treats. For starters, check out the Basics section, where the Screenshots and Resolutions page has been updated with notes about the High-Definition broadcasts of the Star Wars films and what they mean for us. I've also done a quickie update of the stormtrooper armor page with HD TESB shots, and have heavily revamped the ISD bridge tower asteroid collision page, now with almost totally-new images, more than enough to put that long-sleeping puppy to bed. But don't worry, 800x600-screen-resolution-visitors . . . I'm not leaving you behind just yet. :-) 04-15-07: I've greatly expanded the old page on "The Wounded" weapon range example, turning it into a survey of Trek weapon ranges from across the canon. Combined with the Star Wars weapons range page, I thus basically have the issue knocked out. I've therefore made a dedicated comparison page. Enjoy. 04-07-07: Though I'd tried to be generous with the "To Vaporize a Small Town" page, I finally had to admit to myself that I'd gone too far with that, deep into unrealistic territory. Also, I found something Star Wars based to work from instead of strictly the American small town I'd destroyed initially. So, I've updated the page to account for both factors. |
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