History Quotes / SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseofScale

->''"You mean to tell me that they constructed a planet-sized shell around the Earth made of '''''brains'''''. Guess you can't make an omelet without breaking several trillion eggs. I simply can't find the words to comment on how amazing this is. I've heard my nephew in grade school make up some stupid, whacked-out stories while playing with action figures, but none of them were as insane as this. Plus--and this is the really crazy part--that means that the Death Star...'''''is Earth!!''''' Which makes no fucking sense when we just saw the Death Star blowing up what we thought was already Earth. But no, I'm being real here: what you see as the Death Star is really the shell (made of compressed brain molecules, I remind you) surrounding the Earth. And I'm absolutely certain of this because just then, the Evil Space Lord attacks the Death Star Earth with X-Wings. The bad guys are flying fucking X-Wings, and the Earthlings are the ones in TIE Fighters."''

->''"Long ago, in order to create Energon for the first Transformers, they would destroy stars. ''Stars''. Plural. You'd think just one would've probably been enough for a whole planet for eons, but these guys apparently have the energy efficiency of a Hummer filled with cinderblocks towing ''another'' Hummer filled with cinder blocks. Still, our galaxy alone contains a hundred billion stars, so we can spare a few; so the Primes said, 'We're gonna do that, but we'll make a rule: No destroying inhabited worlds.' And that's why The Fallen lost his shit at the beginning of the film. He was all set to harvest our sun, but then the humans show up, and now suddenly he can't? Well, what is he supposed to do, just chalk it up to dumb luck? '''No!''' He will defy the Primes and harvest ''this'' sun anyway! That's right: the 'Revenge' that The Fallen is seeking is because he's [[IdiotPlot a lazy-ass robot who could not be bothered]] to walk ''next door'' and consume its sun instead."''\\

->''"Long ago, in order to create Energon for the first Transformers, they would destroy stars. ''Stars''. Plural. You'd think just one would've probably been enough for a whole planet for eons, but theses guys apparently have the energy efficiency of a Hummer filled with cinderblocks towing ''another'' Hummer filled with cinder blocks. Still, our galaxy alone contains a hundred billion stars, so we can spare a few; so the Primes said, 'We're gonna do that, but we'll make a rule: No destroying inhabited worlds.' And that's why The Fallen lost his shit at the beginning of the film. He was all set to harvest our sun, but then the humans show up, and now suddenly he can't? Well, what is he supposed to do, just chalk it up to dumb luck? '''No!''' He will defy the Primes and harvest ''this'' sun anyway! That's right: the 'Revenge' that The Fallen is seeking is because he's [[IdiotPlot a lazy-ass robot who could not be bothered]] to walk ''next door'' and consume its sun instead."''\\
—'''{{Website/SFDebris}}''' on ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

->"It could blow a hole in the space-time continuum the size of--!! ''(glances at monitor, deflates a little)'' well, actually, the exact size of Belgium. ''*{{sigh}}s*'' That’s a bit undramatic, isn’t it? Belgium?"
-->-- '''[[PeterDavison The 5th Doctor]]''' in [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash full lampshade mode]]

->''"You mean to tell me that they constructed a planet-sized shell around the Earth made of '''''brain'''''s. Guess you can't make an omelet without breaking several trillion eggs. I simply can't find the words to comment on how amazing this is. I've heard my nephew in grade school make up some stupid, whacked-out stories while playing with action figures, but none of them were as insane as this. Plus--and this is the really crazy part--that means that the Death Star...'''''is Earth!!''''' Which makes no fucking sense when we just saw the Death Star blowing up what we thought was already Earth. But no, I'm being real here: what you see as the Death Star is really the shell (made of compressed brain molecules, I remind you) surrounding the Earth. And I'm absolutely certain of this because just then, the Evil Space Lord attacks the Death Star Earth with X-Wings. The bad guys are flying fucking X-Wings, and the Earthlings are the ones in TIE Fighters."''
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' on ''TurkishStarWars''

->''Do these people have no concept of scale, distance or time? And I'm talking about the assholes who wrote this script, not the Kilrathi.''
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]''', ''the ''[[{{Film/WingCommander}} Wing Commander]]'' movie''

-> Right now, on your computer screen, are approximately 10,000 galaxies.
-> Each of those galaxies contains anywhere from ten million to one trillion stars.
-> The average star is roughly a million times the size of Earth.
-> And yet, with all that junk, the Universe is more than 90 percent empty space.
-> All of that, in this tiny photo. A photo that took 400 orbits and 800 exposures to take.
-> And the kicker? The photo covers ''one thirteen-millionth'' of the entire night sky.
-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}'''

-->--'''Quark''', ''RatchetAndClank Future: A Crack In Time'' (ironically, a major offender in department of distance)

->''Scale in ''Transformers'' is, not to put too fine a point on it, screwed.''
-->--'''The first line of the {{Transformers}} Wiki's article on scale.'''

-->--'''[[TheStarscream Starscream]]

-> Next on our list of absurd distances is this:(Picture of the sun) This is the sun, our closest star. It is 1.392.000 kilometers wide, or three times the distance between the Earth and Moon. If the Sun were the size of a soccer ball (22 cm in diameter), then the Earth would be about two milimeters wide.

-> (Picture of the moon)This is the moon, it is the closest celestial body we have. it is, on average, ''384,400 kilometers away''. This is a distance equivalent to nine times the circumference of the Earth, more or less. To give you an idea of how fraking huge this distance is, it would take you eight or nine ''years'' to walk this far, and only if you were some magical automaton that didn't require eating or sleeping. On a car doing 100 Km/h, this would take 160 days (and a bit).

-> And I'm not even going outside the ''solar system'', which on cosmological terms is roughly equivalent to one's house. No wonder SoaSE ships go into FTL for in-system travel.

-->-- [[http://vegastrike.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vegastrike/trunk/data/communications/sounds/lihw/lihw_ayup.ogg?view=log One of]] [[WelcomeToCorneria random talk]] lines in ''VegaStrike'' (LIHW faction).

-->--'''[[{{StarTrek}} Captain Kirk]], "The Man Trap"'''

->“When we showed [[GeorgeRRMartin George Martin]] The Wall,” says lead designer Sylvain Sechi of introducing the books’ author to the giant, miles-long icy structure/metaphor that protects the land of Westeros from the wildlings (and worse) that lurk up north, “he says ‘that’s a very, very big wall.” Upon their explaining to him that they’d made it to scale according to his description, he replied that “I wrote it too big!”

-->-- '''{{Cracked}}'''

-->-- '''TerryPratchett''', ''[[{{Discworld}} The Light Fantastic]]''

->“When we showed [[GeorgeRRMartin George Martin]] The Wall,” says lead designer Sylvain Sechi of introducing the books’ author to the giant, miles-long icy structure/metaphor that protects the land of Westeros from the wildlings (and worse) that lurk up north, “he says ‘that’s a very, very big wall.” Upon their explaining to him that they’d made it to scale according to his description, he replied that “I wrote it too big!”

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-->-- '''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]''', ''the ''[[{{Film/WingCommander}} Wing Commander]]'' movie''

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-->-- '''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]''', ''the ''[[{{Film/WingCommander}} Wing Commander'' movie]]''

-->-- '''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]''', the ''[[{{Film/WingCommander}} Wing Commander'' movie]]

-->-- '''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]''', ''[[{{Film/WingCommander}} the Wing Commander movie]]''

-->--''SchlockMercenary'', [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020415.html April 15, 2002]]

-> Ayup. Yes indeedy. Yuup. Nothing. ''L-lots and l-lots of n-n-nothing!''
-->-- [[http://vegastrike.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vegastrike/trunk/data/communications/sounds/lihw/lihw_ayup.ogg?view=log One of]] [[WelcomeToCorneria random communications lines]] in ''Vega Strike'' (LIHW faction).

-->--'''Trailer for ''RatchetAndClank Future: A Crack In Time'' ''' (ironically, a major offender in department of distance)