Rimmer's line to Kryten "Scrub the diesel deck, all 5 miles!" supports only the habitable area counting.
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutly, plus, if I remember correctly, doesn't the cat looking for toilet paper say he's 'damn near walked 5miles'?
@Alphoric
Жыл бұрын
Plus rimmer isn’t always right so that could be miles off
@pelinoregeryon6593
Ай бұрын
@@Alphoric There isn't a single reliable narrator in the entire thing, we have two vending machine maintenance operatives, a "senile" computer who's files if they ever contained the information may have been corrupted since, a salvaged sanitation droid from another ship and the cat .. none of them might naturally be expected to have the education, training or background to be reliably expected to necessarily have (ever) had any of the science behind any of the ships systems etc or even entirely accurate information on the ships general specs accept Holly who's specifically stated to be 'senile' and repeatedly demonstrated to be an unreliable source of information .. and they are our only informants in the show which makes the writers job in this respect really easy, they can have the characters tell us anything and never have to (really) "retcon" anything as such because nothing they say to each other or tell us about any of that can really be assumed be to be 100% true or accurate 😁 if they say anything that doesn't make sense and it gets pointed out they can just shrug and say "well he doesn't know does he, he got it wrong, you expect a soup dispenser repair man to know that?" 😁
@BillyJoeKoepsel
6 ай бұрын
The little guy painting the name on the ship must have been king Kong by this scale.
@RedShift112
21 күн бұрын
I think that's supposed to be Lister you see painting the ship's name in the Intro sequence.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@lotuselansteve
4 күн бұрын
No, in order for the ship to be 5 miles long Lister would have to be the size of a mouse
@JerryWalker001
2 жыл бұрын
They are in space so the 'bottom' may be the end with the engine so the average floor height would be 3.11m
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
I've had a few people suggest this now, I'll have to look into the possibility!
@pelinoregeryon6593
Ай бұрын
Yep, makes sense the back of the ship would be 'down'.. We don't ever see the ship spinning to provide centrifugal force so presumably there is supposed to be some other sort of artificial gravity in use .. yes it's big enough to have 'a little' gravity of its own but that would be pretty negligible so they have something providing the gravity allowing everyone to walk around normally just like they would if they're on earth.. Whatever it is is going to require power and adjustment against other forces like acceleration and those adjustments and the power requirements will necessarily be less if the gravity is aligned with the back of the ship being 'down'. This assumes their observed gravity isn't meant to be entirely due to acceleration of course .. which would mean they are constantly at 1G acceleration throughout the entire series .. which also makes the back of the ship 'down' of course. And then there's my favourite theory, they just said lets just make the damn thing and ignore the gravity (if they even thought about it all before any viewers started asking about it), if anyone asks we can just say it's artificial gravity and not worry about explaining how it works, Lister and Rimmer wouldn't know, Holly is 'senile' and has forgotten the 'science' behind it (if it was ever in his files to start with) so there's no one in the show who can reasonably be expected to be able to explain it to the audience so we don't have to 😁 .. 5 miles divided by a more normal seven foot 6 inches room and corridor height gives us up to 3520 floors.
@ChimpingBulldog
Ай бұрын
Thats how the ships in The Expanse simulate gravity, with a constant accrleration of 1g.
@Tao_Tology
Ай бұрын
@@pelinoregeryon6593 Or just go with the BSG line: there just is gravity inside the ships, don't think about it. 😏
@pelinoregeryon6593
Ай бұрын
@@Tao_Tology Yes, but I already functionally said that didn't I > "And then there's my favourite theory, they just said lets just make the damn thing and ignore the gravity"
@MrWeedWacky
3 жыл бұрын
the size of the Dwarf makes sense, it is a mining ship, if you couldn't mine more than a couple of buckets, it would not be profitable: Now, hauling an entire Mt. Everest home in your belly... Now that is opportunity
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
Ha, I actually have a video in the pipeline looking at how massive the ship is compared to its tiny crew size and why its so darn huge!
@ThatZenoGuy
2 жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd IIRC the crew has a huge crew...Granted most of them are scutters.
@4thdoctor284
6 ай бұрын
Well it did have an asteroid sticking out of it's belly being mined.
@nadger6240
Жыл бұрын
The size of the small crimson one was what i loved about watching red dwarf. I loved the idea of wandering around a city sized deserted space ship.
@RedDwarfNerd
Жыл бұрын
I think the same, the size really fuels your imagination for what life on board must have been like
@mccarthy5825
2 жыл бұрын
This is an amazing channel. So glad I found it. RD brings me back to late Friday nights as a kid. Lived in Ireland but had all the UK channels. Red Dwarf. Films like London Kills Me and Naked. TV shows like Eurotrash, Bottom, Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Mtv Europe Beavis and Butthead, Aeon Flux and the Maxx...luckily I had a TV for my Mega Drive(then Saturn and PSX) and the 'pipe' we called it ran into my room for Rte1, Rte2, (TV3 in 99!), BBC 1&2, UTV(itv but Ulster variant. Essentially the same), Channel 4, MTV, TCC, Sky 1 and finally Eurosport. That was 'Cablelink' in Ireland at the time. Red Dwarf has such a strong place in my memories from 8-15, so 92-99. I love how your present the videos, your enthusiasm, your excellent research, your encyclopedic knowledge of the show, your editing...its all flawless 👌
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Really glad you enjoyed it, hoping to get some more theory vids out soon!
@fracturedmoonnetwork
3 жыл бұрын
Great video, the heights of the floor could be even bigger if the elevator runs down the length of the ship.
@hdpygon
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing video. This is a fantastic channel. Whenever I see the opening for series 1 and 2 I can’t help but ponder the size of Lister compared to the letters ‘RED DWARF’ let alone the ship entirely. Lister’s height seems roughly to be half of the font’s thickness. I’m sure there’s some clever mathematics which could be done to try and figure out the size of the ship just using the visual clues of Lister painting. Of course, it’d further be really quite interesting to know how it compares to the size which you have figured out in this video. What do you think?
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I did think of doing it from that point of view, but the scale gets even more skewed as Lister is too big for the ship to be 5miles! The remastered blu ray opening has Lister at a better scale if memory serves.
@Bruh-zx2mc
Жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd The sign is also much smaller on the remastered model, so that further tilts the scales.
@jeremyjasiak
2 жыл бұрын
In the novel they have golf carts or something to get around on the ship with, which makes sense with this size of ship.
@AndrewChapman
Жыл бұрын
Have you done a video covering the interior sets during Series 1-5? Like the sleeping quarters, drive room, science lab, medical unit, corridors, refectory etc.? Always wondered if the Series 3-5 interiors are meant to be the same as Series 1-2 heavily refurbished or if the guys moved out of their old quarters as they had free access to the whole ship. I like to think the latter since Red Dwarf is meant to be large with so many floors.
@RedDwarfNerd
Жыл бұрын
I've not done that as a video, but I should! Spoiler: its supposed to be that they moved themselves up market into the officers quarters 😊
@AndrewChapman
Жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd Ah okay, I figured that. Thanks.
@Austenstone118
2 жыл бұрын
It’d be interesting to see red dwarf compared to other ship’s from Sci fi series, such as the enterprise 😁
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that would be cool... although most other things would like tiny compared to the dwarf!
@worldcomicsreview354
Жыл бұрын
The TOS Enterprise was ~450m, so about two Titanics, so would also disappear against the Dwarf. With that in mind, I was thinking about the size of ships for my own Sci-fi stories a few years back, when I walked to work amongst some warehouses and truck stops. Some of the 3-4 storey warehouses (those are storeys for big crates, too, not people!) could do backflips in the internal volume of a 1500m long chisel-like ship. In Red Dwarf you could get 22 of them to play a footy match!
@davidwuhrer6704
Жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to compare real-life spaceships and fictional space ships. The Saturn V would be a good starting point. And the ISS of course. Compare that to the most iconic fictional space ships, like the TOS Enterprise, the TNG Enterprise, DS9, the Star Destroyers from Star Wars, the Battlestar Galactica, and several ships from Perry Rhodan, starting with the Marco Polo and the Sol. Red Dwarf is not as long as the Sol, but bulkier, so would top it in volume.
@darkjapan
Жыл бұрын
If you Google Space Ship Size comparison, there is an image that includes Red Dwarf, but there are some even bigger ships out there! RD looks small by comparison!
@chrissonofpear1384
Жыл бұрын
@@worldcomicsreview354 TOS Enterprise actually more like 947 to 1085 feet, by most estimates. So from 288 to 327 or so meters.
@xlynx9
Жыл бұрын
It's been at least 20 years since I read the books, but if I recall it was 3x2 miles there, too. And are we sure the decks are built across the ship and not vertically, as that would allow plenty of room for those several thousand floors.
@RedDwarfNerd
11 ай бұрын
Yeah, the vertical floor idea has been suggested a few times, I'll have to do an episode looking at this one.
@holyfeline715
2 жыл бұрын
Now I'm interested in seeing the sizes of the other Red Dwarfs
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
That could be very interesting, the series 8 version either has to be massively longer, or far less tall!
@chrissonofpear1384
Жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd By the way - did you figure out how big Starbug is? Seems to grow quite a bit between 'Backwards' and 'Tikka to Ride' Remastered. Might max out at 120 ft, say, even 150.
@luckygrunt
Жыл бұрын
@@chrissonofpear1384 I believe they said that the the time drive caused a singularity inside the bug, causing it's interior to be much larger than how it was originally built. In real life, this was because the writers wanted more to work with than just the fairly titchy Starbug. In the show, they do use the space for a lot of different things. Think of it like the TARDIS. The exterior of Starbug remained the same, but the time drive caused a sort of pocket dimension that was much larger on the interior of Starbug. I forget the exact numbers used in the show, but it's something like 200% larger than originally built.
@Cardinal_Hordriss
Жыл бұрын
If you’re interested... Using the measurements on Red Dwarf wiki, and assuming the width as the season 8 ship is the same width as the original, using the Corgi model as a basis... I calculated the length of the long version of the ship as 29.4km or 18.3 miles. I got bored one evening...
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@KHScienceClubxmas
3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Loved your example of the Humber Bridge; as a fellow commuter to the North Bank every day certainly puts it into perspective!
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, I thought it would make a good comparison, now if only I could figure out why the bridge has been down to one lane for over a year that would be helpful! :-)
@KHScienceClubxmas
3 жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd Oh I wish I knew why it was one lane too! I wouldn’t mind if you could actually see people working there! I’d understand it more! Lol.
@mattdowds8505
Жыл бұрын
It's much smaller if you scale it by lister being about a third of the height of the width of the line of the F he's painting on the ship in the intro.
@RedDwarfNerd
Жыл бұрын
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@RoqueFortStu
Жыл бұрын
this is exactly what I thought, the space-painter would be massively out of proportion with regards to these calculations. I guess they hadn't decided on the size of the ship when they made that intro
@choopy21
Ай бұрын
No, the trick is to scale Lister based on the ship being 5 miles, I never realized that Lister was 300 feet tall, but math is math🤷♂️
@MatthewCaunsfield
Ай бұрын
That's how I measured it back when the VHS tapes came out, the ship was only a couple miles long if I recall!
@j_may
Жыл бұрын
@02:34 6.52ft for a room height is extremely low. The measurements I've seen online say the ship is 6 miles (10 km) long, 5 miles (8 km) tall, and 4 miles (6 km) wide. If you divide 5 miles by 3000 floors, which it also says there is, you get an average room height of 8.8ft which is much closer to the scenes in the show and a realistic room height. The references in the TV show suggest the ship length is 5 miles long, but if you take out the areas where crew cant get too easily e.g. the engine/afterburners, then this would also make sense for them to say it was 5 miles instead of 6. :) Love your channel btw! :)
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@patrickradcliffe3837
Жыл бұрын
1:48 rotate the decks 90° clockwise and you'll get you correct deck height.
@RedDwarfNerd
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I've seen a diagrams people have made suggesting that, I'll have to look into that one more closely!
@hardkermit69
3 жыл бұрын
It also says in the red dwarf season 1 documentary they say it a huge 5 mile long ship
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers HardKermit69
@timbert4672
23 күн бұрын
Interesting how you did the maths there, it makes me think that the stated 5 mile length of Babylon 5 may also be just the habitable part which rotates, not the stations entire framework. I always found it interesting that both things were so similar in size. As for Ben Nevis fitting inside, wasn't that kind of the idea? It is a mining ship after all.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@scragar
13 күн бұрын
Minor point you might have missed: There are a lot less decks than floors, with a huge part of the ship being the cargo or support decks each of which can span hundreds of floors. Since we know for sure there's an Aand Z deck it makes sense to say there's 26 decks, each at least 100 floors for 2,600 floors minimum. According to the books it's 6 miles long, 5 miles high, and 4 miles wide, without counting the observational areas(the bits that stick out). This isn't cannon, but I thought I'd mention it since it's the closest anyone has come to giving a cannon answer.
@StuartQuinn
23 күн бұрын
Kind of impressive that the deck height calculation worked out to such a reasonable number, when you wouldn't imagine that it was thought through at all, and those were probably numbers plucked out of the air for maximum comic effect.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@fuzzywzhe
27 күн бұрын
Something that always kind of bugged me is they remained roommates when each of them could have gotten a luxury suite.
@lb9147
21 күн бұрын
Covered by the reason Rimmer was even brought back- to stop Dave going mad from loneliness
@fuzzywzhe
21 күн бұрын
@@lb9147 That wouldn't explain why they continued to be room mates. It doesn't matter, you can't take a comedy science fiction show seriously.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@fuzzywzhe
18 күн бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd The 4 books are available here as audio books, just a FYI.
@Jo3man96
2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Just one note, technically the Titanic was an ocean liner, not a cruise ship.
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Very fair point! I have recently watched a couple of vids about ships and realised there is a difference for ships built to withstand crossing oceans! well spotted!
@Karnatil
Жыл бұрын
Alternatively, the decks could go front-to-back. Gravity in space is flexible, after all. 5 miles long, roughly 3000 floors, that gives us more than 8.5 feet per floor. That's easily doable - average UK ceiling height is less than that. I can see plenty of other commenters have mentioned it already too :)
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@MudSluggerBP
29 күн бұрын
What about taking the height of Lister when he’s painting the RedDwarf logo and scaling that to find the true size of the ship?
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@Odinskobiej
Ай бұрын
If you read the novels of red dwarf, they have the size and dimensions in one of the books.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@MiketheMutant1993
9 күн бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerdthe books are amazing, and the audiobooks are even better because they're read by Chris Barrie and he does voices for all the characters, really flexing his impersonator muscles. Assuming you haven't already done vids covering them, I'd love to see that.
@w8m4n
Жыл бұрын
Rewatch time! Love the videos Dan! Please continue to do these as often as possible. Also, I'm hoping to buy a shirt soon to also support your deeds
@RedDwarfNerd
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much. Tshirt designs arnt done yet, but I'll put out an update soon :-) Thanks for watching and commenting, really appreciate it! 👍
@libragod6671
2 жыл бұрын
Love your content. I hope to see more videos. Keep up the great work ✌
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much, I'm working on freeing up time to make more vids ASAP!
@sci-fi4life316
2 жыл бұрын
That's a crazy good video!
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers, appreciated!
@oddsandwindsocks5905
23 күн бұрын
Christ, i didn't realise how big it was , trying comparing with star wars ships to show awesome scale
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@militarymysteriesuk
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks alot! 👍
@militarymysteriesuk
2 жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd you deserve it!
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
@@militarymysteriesuk thanks!
@hardkermit69
3 жыл бұрын
Noice video nice work I see you put time and effort into this stuff keep it up
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much, tbh, compared to the rigmoral of having to film guitars, vids on this channel are comparitivly low effort! 😂
@FiveFemboys
Жыл бұрын
Great video but in other languages cat says 10 kilometers instead of 5 miles. That would mean the ship is 15,98km. And that's a long boi.
@RedDwarfNerd
Жыл бұрын
Ah that's interesting. Although, on my old BBC dvd's the subtitles are terribly written and barely match the dialogue, which makes me question if the translations had much effort put in either!?
@darkjapan
Жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd I can tell you from experience that the Japanese dubb is very accurate. Although NHK did cut the episodes a lot. I wrote two whole pages about it on the tongue tied wiki. Thanks very much for the very informative video! Subscribed!
@ImmortalDuke
Жыл бұрын
Cat has lived inside the ship it's all life so 5 miles habitable area makes sense.
@RedDwarfNerd
Жыл бұрын
yeah, it needs to be really big for the cat race to be possible
@WolfeSaber9933
Ай бұрын
In a Sci-fi series I'm working on, I came up with a vessel, well it is eight individual ships connected together, with each one about 50 kilometers long and 10 kilometers in diameter.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@scottbogfoot
Жыл бұрын
6:41 provided that the camera's pov is stationary
@RedDwarfNerd
11 ай бұрын
That's very true, the camera could be said to be a on a craft traveling away from red dwarf.
@notthemessiah9243
Жыл бұрын
It’s five miles, it says in the book
@RedDwarfNerd
Жыл бұрын
Fair deal!
@Kevin-mx1vi
12 күн бұрын
Has it occurred to you that in space, "up" can be in any direction you wish, hence the floors could conceivably run from the front to the rear of the ship ? Obviously, there is some kind of artificial gravity at work, so it could be aligned in whichever direction made most sense to the ship's operation.
@Dumb-Comment
23 күн бұрын
the paint needed for the ship must be super heavier
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@RichardDzien
2 жыл бұрын
If the floors were stacked on top of each other from the ram scoop to the engine then you could get the floors in without cheating a little.. Although we do see the floors level with the horizontal portion in the opening credits.
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, this is an idea I've seen floated about quite a bit, it kinda turns red dwarf into a more conventional stacked rocket shape. TBH it is a possible one, although I think the wording would then shift to be 'a spaceship 5 miles TALL' rather than long.
@RichardDzien
2 жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd 5 miles tall or long, and there still isn't enough sockets in the scanner room!
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
@@RichardDzien gotta have that hot wax strip unsightly hair remover! 😂
@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker
Ай бұрын
5:40 i’m not British, and it’s probably been 15 years if not more since I’ve seen EastEnders. And yet, to my own surprise, I can still hum the tune, I even remember where the claps are. 😂
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@s3any1977
17 күн бұрын
I always knew it was city size but they chose to stick together...as you would.
@Krazyman1999
29 күн бұрын
Don't forget the Paint.. painting the ship was soo bad, it was a punishment. 3 Weeks PD aka Painting Deck.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@claymationclassicsgold
2 жыл бұрын
Great video. Love Dwarf and like your content keep it up mate ✌👊
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a ton!
@robkemp598
3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video, not sure the writers actually thought about this
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
I recon they would of had dimensions in their heads, but the miniature guys probably just made the ship however was most convenient!
@davidwuhrer6704
Жыл бұрын
The book has some calculations and comparisons about the size and volume, so the writers certainly thought about this.
@marthastubbs8321
2 жыл бұрын
I want them to do a episode showing the gardens inside red dwarf
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
That would be cool, tbh I'd be happy with any extra detail beyond the usual quarters and the prison!
@marthastubbs8321
2 жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd it'll never happen but id love them to have to go back to say their series 3 quarters for an episode to find something they left there or to hide from an intruder or something
@maxdecimus13
2 жыл бұрын
Surely the best way to actually measure it, is from the part where the letters are being painted. Using 6ft for the size of the person, you should be able to get a rough estimate.
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that would be a good way. The trouble is that the person (usually presumed to be Lister) had to be filmed/framed in a way that makes them far to tall, making the ship really small.
@ImmortalDuke
Жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd That is just a maintenance hologram
@RedDwarfNerd
Жыл бұрын
@@ImmortalDuke i like your thinking! 👍😊
@RedDwarfNerd
Жыл бұрын
@MaxDecimus13 the problem with the opening titles ship painting, is that it actually makes the ship way too small. It would wind up being nowhere near any measurement ever quoted onscreen.
@hyzenthlay7151
Ай бұрын
One way to compare the size might be to use the image of the guy painting the F in Red Dwarf in the first intro, and comparing it then to the guy you see in one of the Babylon 5 intros on the front of the station, as we know Babylon 5 is 5 miles long canonically.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@lachlanraidal5100
Ай бұрын
Is it ever established in cannon that the decks run along the ship? I always thought they mightve been stacked vertically from engine to ram scoop. That way the engine's thrust could simulate gravity.
@Fury9er
Ай бұрын
I was going to say this! maybe its like ships in The Expanse
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18 күн бұрын
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@GoranNewsum
Ай бұрын
In Future Echoes Holly describes Red Dwarf as "the size of a city"
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@Voltaic_Fire
2 жыл бұрын
Ram scoop? I thought that thing was to catch asteroids.
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
The books describe it as taking in particles from space to use for propulsion somehow. :-)
@Voltaic_Fire
2 жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd Aye, that is how ram scoops work, drawing in stellar matter and compressing it into a useful form, I just didn't think that was was one on front of the small rouge one given the gaps in the sides.
@OnlyOneKenobi
2 жыл бұрын
Great vid 👌🏼
@RedDwarfNerd
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed! 👍
@lemdixon01
5 күн бұрын
Or use the man painting the the outside of the ship on the opening titles for scale
@MrJGD77
3 жыл бұрын
Cool video. Nice one.
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
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@JusticeforBob1
3 ай бұрын
Comparing it to everest certainly brings it into perspective!
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@theunreadcomment9834
19 күн бұрын
6.5ft per floor, that seems quite small. You know the average standard door height ist 6.6ft right? None of the rooms in Red Dwarf appear to have ceilings this low
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@ImmortalAbsol
Ай бұрын
The height probably doesn't include the skyscrapers.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@jacobleetaylor
3 жыл бұрын
Another fantastic video I love the vids you upload that make the dwarf feels real and alive
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
You mean it's not real!?... 😂😂😂
@jacobleetaylor
3 жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd I suppose considering it is set in the future it’s more accurate to say not real yet 😂
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
@@jacobleetaylor phew! You had me worried there for a min! 😂
@jacobleetaylor
3 жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd Don’t worry bud I saw it in a future echo 😂
@whitehuayra
3 жыл бұрын
I just found your channel! I hope you continue uploading👍 no work today so im going to binge watch this channel and maybe some red dwarf with a nice cool beer
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much, hope you enjoy! I do have plans in the pipeline for more content soon... Hopefully! 😊
@Stu_1977_SEmelb
2 жыл бұрын
Great video, but I don't think you really ended up talking about the novels? 🤔 So, how big are Copenhagen and Helsingør, anyway? 🙂
@rhuman8672
25 күн бұрын
To be fair, cat isn’t that clever so he could have just been making a point or just wrong. I’d say a better measure is lister painting the letters at the start of the intro
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@choopy21
Ай бұрын
Thanks for the video, I wonder what kind of area you’d be looking at for 2,000+ floors of 5 miles x 3 miles worth of floor space?
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@willadeefriesland5107
3 жыл бұрын
Um... What about Lister on p.d.? Paint detail? The scale of him and the ship's name?
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
I did think of that one, I think I'll have to look at that in its own video as from memory it's quite a different scale (listers far too big)!
@willadeefriesland5107
3 жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd Thanks, Good work on the video...
@alfiekelly5914
Ай бұрын
Boys from the Dwarf.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@GiveMeBackMyUsernameYouTube
9 ай бұрын
Just think how much fun it'd be to explore. You'd never run out doors to force open or seldom used corridors to wander down.
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@colinmoore7460
15 күн бұрын
Internally 5 miles long...but how thick is the hull, especially at the bow (front) and stern (back)? Would that make any difference
@dougmoore4326
Ай бұрын
6.5 feet per deck? Do the floors have no thickness?
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@phantomhurricane666
Күн бұрын
red dwarf is the size of a small city.
@damimates
3 жыл бұрын
No wonder they call you “Red Dwarf Nerd” you’re good at Math, better math then me..l
@RedDwarfNerd
3 жыл бұрын
Ha, I had to use a calculator and a lot of help from Google! :-)
@damimates
3 жыл бұрын
@@RedDwarfNerd *o h*
@kudosbudo
28 күн бұрын
so red dwarf is slightly biggers than babylon 5?
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@s1e5b9
Ай бұрын
I'm genuinely curious due to the size of the ship. How much destruction it could make should it crash on the planet
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@JimiVexTV
13 күн бұрын
You should just scale the ship by the dude painting the lettering in the intro sequence.
@cartoonraccoon2078
26 күн бұрын
So you are starting with a likely-hyperbolic description from Cat as your basis? We can see how big a fella is compared to the lettering, and should start there. Then we don't need to "divide two point free six" anything.
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18 күн бұрын
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@matthew_turkmen7482
3 жыл бұрын
I came here after watching top seven most durable ships in SF and they didn't even mention Red Dwarf. What a heretics.
@rayvenkman2087
Жыл бұрын
It ain’t idiot proof. Case in point, Rimmer and Lister.
@judewestburner
Ай бұрын
Would earth have enough metal for this or is the ore mined from elsewhere??
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@spudhead169
Жыл бұрын
So it's big then?
@RedDwarfNerd
11 ай бұрын
Ha, yeah, big, red and ugly! :-)
@darthkahn45
Жыл бұрын
You would probably need about 800 years to build something like this.
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18 күн бұрын
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@martinmccrea6030
Жыл бұрын
I have just begun rewatching red dwarf for the first time since I was a child in the 90s, love it! This link is a vid comparing various starship sizes kzitem.info/news/bejne/1X1u23dobXmToqg
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18 күн бұрын
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@mybachhertzbaud3074
27 күн бұрын
Most of the scenes show a much higher ceiling. There are areas much smaller like tunnels they have been trapped in but, also absolutely huge areas where a cat can get his groove on.. No one told me there would be math.😜
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@TheImmortuary
6 күн бұрын
You are taking the CATS word as Gospel?
@stoatystoat174
19 күн бұрын
:)
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18 күн бұрын
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@angharaddenby3389
Жыл бұрын
Red Dwarf can not be 5 miles long no matter HOW you measure it. In the opening credits of Series 1, Dave Lister is seen outside the ship with a broom painting the F of 'Dwarf'. He is shown (including the spacesuit) to be about half the size of the cross-line halfway up the F. Comparing the height of Lister to the length of the ship, it can NOT be more than 2,0000 FEET long and 1,100 FEET high. No matter what mathematics you use, you cannot get anywhere ONE mile never mind five. Also, IF Lister is the last human in the Universe, WHY did the ship keep changing appearance? WHO made the changes and where? None of it adds up. Still, it is a classic show and needs to brought back, How about a PROPER feature film?
@RedDwarfNerd
18 күн бұрын
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@MabDarogan2
Ай бұрын
This video needs metric, granddad
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18 күн бұрын
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@stethespaniard2
12 күн бұрын
Unfortunately you fell at the first hurdle. You got your data from cat. Not exactly the most intelligent of the crew
@RobinTheMetaGod
Ай бұрын
That is bullshit; a lot of the rooms are taller than maybe 7 meters. The Cat is not a smart person.
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18 күн бұрын
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