How big that stupid prison ship was?

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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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It was so huge as Chichigo,don't you think? :?:
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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The Grolgoth is about as high as a...1.5-storey building. The Crow's Nest is maybe...ten or fifteen times bigger than the Grolgoth? And the Crow's Nest isn't even visible when viewed from a distance great enough to see the entire Prison Ship.

It is several miles long, wide and high.
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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I'm sure it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say the Prison Ship is about the size of Ireland.
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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*massages face with palm*
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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I would say it is about size of Lolland, the most lol'led island in Europe.
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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Considering that the diameter of the Crow's Nest is probably one kilometre, and that the entire ship is probably one hundred times as big as the Crow's Nest, I figure the length of the ship must be about one hundred kilometres. Why do you think it's so much smaller, spiral?
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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What? The crows nest couldn't be a kilometre across. If I've calculated correctly, It would take 2 whole minutes to run 1km, and that's running at 30km/h.
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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I suppose you're right, it doesn't take two minutes to reach the other side of the Crow's Nest. Someone should check it out :P
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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I really don't think it's a kilometre in diameter...maybe a hundred or a hundred and fifty...

And if it was the size of Ireland, its explosion and subsequent landing in the sea would have caused a tsunami large enough to eradicate all life from the planet.
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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Well, the Crow's Nest is invisible when the whole ship is in view, so the ship would probably be around 500 times the diametre of the mast.
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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It isn't as big as Ireland. Just...no.

Maybe Wales. :mrgreen:
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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By the way, you do know that even the size of the Isle of Wight would cause a humungous tsunami, right? Certainly large enough to disturb at least part of the planet. And here 'disturb' is a synonym for 'obliterate'.
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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...further proving that the Prison Ship is not as big as Ireland. :pfff:
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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I was just saying that its size (regardless of whether it is 10km or 100km) would instigate a colossal tsunami, so either way its crash landing would ground such destruction.

Unless of course it crashed into the land and not the sea :P
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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It did fall into the sea.
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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Did it? Oh.

But then, perhaps during the explosion the ship was divided into thousands of pieces, thus no mass wave could be produced at all!
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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If you look at the explosion, it seems that there are several large pieces, not thousands of tiny ones. You may be on to something, though.
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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spiraldoor wrote:And if it was the size of Ireland, its explosion and subsequent landing in the sea would have caused a tsunami large enough to eradicate all life from the planet.
It doesn't prove anything. The explosion of the ship is all but realistic from a scientific point of view, so, what can you expect from its consequences?
Anyway, the best we can do is calculate the diameter of the Crow's Nest (supposing Rayman can run at 25 km/h) and multiply it by the proportionality factor (100, 500, I don't know).
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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Well, it's not likely that we'll ever know how big it was, so this topic is kind of useless if that's what we're trying to find out...
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Re: How big that stupid prison ship was?

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No, but we can find an order of magnitude.
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