History Quotes / ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale

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

->''"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....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."''

-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/poor-pathetic-creatures-death-to-the-daleks/ Dr. Elizabeth Sandifer]]''' on [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS11E3DeathToTheDaleks}} "Death to the Daleks"]]

-->-- '''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2012/09/series-seven.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhos33e12NightmareinSilver}} "Nightmare in Silver"]]

[[quoteright:350:''[-[[{{Website/Cracked}} 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]]-].'']]

-->--'''Wiki/TFWikiDotNet''', "[[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scale Scale]]"

-->-- The trailer of Film/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea''

->''You are there, when [[ArtisticLicensePhysics the entire sky catches on fire]], [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy the burning Van Allen Belt threatening to destroy the universe!]]''

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->''"'''Scale''' in ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'' is, not to put too fine a point on it, screwed."''
-->--'''Wiki/TFWikiDotNet''' article, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Scale]]"

->''"Scale in Transformers is, not to put too fine a point on it, screwed. Virtually no era, franchise, fiction, toyline or other incarnation of Transformers has presented scale in a logical or believable fashion."''
-->-- The [[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet Transformers Wiki]] - ''Scale''

-->-- ''Dalek Ix''', author of ''Fanfic/FriendsOfASolarEmpire'', in a blog entry.

It is about ''149,600,000 kilometers away''. If it were the size of a soccer ball, then the Earth would be 23.57 meters away. If you were on an SR-71 Blackbird traveling at it's fastest official speed (3,529.6 Km/h), it would take you 15 ''years'' to get there. It takes ''light'', the fastest thing known to man, eight minutes to get here from the Sun. We refer to this distance as an Astronomical Unit, or AU, since kilometers are too damned small for anything inside the solar system.\\\

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

->'''Professor Konrad:''' That's what I [[WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue would have said]]. It appears all things are possible in space.

->'''Cptn. Patterson:''' But at its closest Venus is 26 million miles from Earth! You don't just accidentally land on a planet 26 million miles away!
->'''Prof. Konrad:''' That's what I [[WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue would have said]]. It appears all things are possible in space.

-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/06/why-are-earth-people-so-parochial.html Dr. Phil Sandifer]]''' on [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS11E3DeathToTheDaleks}} "Death to the Daleks"]]

-->-- '''[[PeterDavison The 5th Doctor]]''' in [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash full lampshade mode]]

->''"By way of summary, the 115,128 networked, civilized star systems of the 31st-century Milky-Way Galaxy ''(population: 10,283 trillion and four. No... wait. Five. Err... three. Crap. Hold still.)"''

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

-->-- ''{{lonelygirl15}}'', "Emma's Choice", on the mass of a proton

-->-- ''Series/GameOfThrones'' videogame lead designer '''Sylvain Sechi''', as quoted in RockPaperShotgun

->''"When we showed [[Creator/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!"''
-->-- ''[[ASongOfIceAndFire Game of Thrones]]'' videogame lead designer '''Sylvain Sechi''', as quoted in RockPaperShotgun

->''"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!"''