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15 miles long, baby.
holy ship
and it’s Ultra Magnus, so you know he isn’t exaggerating.
Maybe they’re space miles
It’d be a slightly more reasonable size if it were 15 kilometers. That’d make it only 9 miles long. I wonder somebody in the process did a British-to-American localization to the script that made the ship amazingly huge.
I mean, I buy that the Lost Light is huge. It houses 20- to 30-foot robots, not 5-foot humans. But that’s still kind of big. Though I suppose if Overlord can run around inside it, and he’s probably 60 feet tall…?
I dunno.
It kind of makes you wonder about the size of the GCS Benign Intervention. That thing absolutely dwarfed the Lost Light.
now that’s just ridiculous
the benign intervention is at least 80 miles long
it’s the size of connecticut
To put things more in perspective.
On a two-dimensional perspective, the Lost Light is 15 miles long and 10 miles wide, giving it a rough surface area of 150 square miles, roughly the equivalent of the Bronx and Brooklyn combined. However, because its a tri-dimensional figure, and based on the artwork, it has roughly a height of 3 miles, thus giving it a rough estimate of 450 square miles of total exterior surface area, about the total of ALL OF NEW YORK CITY.
The rough number of the crew hovers at around 300 cybertronians, each cybertronian would technically have 1.5 CUBIC MILE of space for themselves.
If you consider just width and length alone, each Ammonite must cover 2.85 sq miles by themselves just to surround it. And if the Lost Light were to have a single rivet for every square foot of surface to keep it together, and Swerve and Rewind were to be punished by making them replace all the rivets in the exterior surface of the ship, it would take them 198.97 years were they to do it non-stop at a rate of 1-rivet per second.
Rivet job is serious shit.
For Million year old robots, 198.97 isn’t that bad of a punishment.
GIANT ROBOTS ARE GIANT
For reference, here’s what the Benign Intervention is crewed by:
Here’s the Lost Light next to Metroplex, who transforms into a city for Transformers:
Here’s Verity, summing all of this up:
Oh hey, it’s another place where my graduate degrees and engineering degree and experience meet in a strangely specific union. Okay, I’m not going to get into the numbers because I’m lazy and my hand is broken.
So my first idle thought was to do proportional comparisons of spaceship volumes between humans and Cybertronians based on relative volume. The volume of a human versus the volume of a Cybertronian. Because let’s say a Cybertronian is twice as large as a human, dimension-wise. Twice as wide, twice as deep, twice as tall. That adds up to them being eight times the volume of a human being.
But that isn’t the full story either. Up above.. I see some mentions of exterior surface area, and I see some mentions of robot heights, but I don’t see any mentions of the number of floors this place is rocking. And I don’t have a good answer. But okay, consider human-systems integration. A common rule of thumb you run into is that your system should accommodate humans of sizes between the 5th percentile female and 95th percentile male. Super tiny and super large folks are unlucky outliers, but those bounds should capture the vast majority of the population (and there’s LOADS of anthropometric data collected with this data that can be referenced, for all kinds of human dimensions).
Now, consider robot size variety compared to human size variety. Tailgate, Swerve, and Rewind are getting by just fine. But Ultra Magnus and Megatron still fit comfortably in all the rooms we see. They’re closer to the ceiling than everyone else, but they still have plenty of room to work with, they fit in the environment, etc. If you put humans in a too-short room, they do fun things like permanently deform their spine (see: josef fritzl’s kid). Appropriately placed ceilings are good. And those guys are large, but they’re still not as large as it gets. Check out all the places we see like, Tesarus and Helex, or Overlord, or even Maximus Ambus. Maybe these places would struggle to accommodate someone like Omega Supreme, but he’s pretty much as tall as we’ve seen without getting into Titans or combiners. Cybertronian standard design accommodates people who are TALL.
But that’s not the only dimension to worry about. Front-to-back, ehhh, whatever, you move in that direction, so short of like, too-tight corners or something, that won’t usually be an issue. But width? We do see Fort Max being too wide to get through Pharma’s escape hatch. And he is a wide, wide boy. Plus we’ve got other wide boys all over the place, including Ultra Magnus and Megatron, and there are various flying-type robots with wingspans that show up in their root mode (like Starscream or Whirl). None of them struggle with the doors or the hallways. Everything is usually designed wide enough to accommodate them.
So basically, Cybertronian ship are, by necessity, designed to allow for more proportional space per robot than a human ship would be. With humans, we’ve got a couple feet in size variance. As opposed to Tailgate coming up to Megatron’s knees. They won’t have as much surface area inside the ship as a human ship would have, and each design feature like rooms or halls or doors will take up more proportional surface area just to account for the anatomy of the people who will be using it. Plus I never got the impression that the ship was like… filled to capacity. Given that nobody ever mentioned caps on crew size and it was a ‘grab whatever room you want’ sort of housing situation, I got the impression they could handle having plenty more people on board.
And that’s apart from whatever mechanics go into making this place work, because it’s not just a hollow box to hold people. The engines are a Mystery (a quantum mystery). We see the relatively small area where the duobots got fucked up, but we’ve also got these massive, massive quills that play in somehow, an unknown amount of other engine elements interfacing with them, and a whole lot of quantum foam, wherever that lives and whatever it does. We see Megatron and Whirl fighting in one of those sorts of areas, and who knows how many there are on a ship that size?
Plus there’s everything else that goes into a permanent-home flavored community ship. We have not one, but two bars, at a bare minimum. Which I think is a point in favor of what I said about the ship being built to accommodate plenty more crew. We’ve got the refining facilities to make engex for those bars. We’ve got refining facilities to make energon period. We’ve got a brig. Medical facilities. I’d wager there’s some area where people can play with guns without risking real damage to the ship, and somewhere people who fly can take their wings for a spin. Plus an unknown amount of other infrastructure that goes into keeping what’s basically a miniature city running. It all takes up volume.
OH, and from specifically a reliability/maintenance engineering point of view, putting bots on rivet duty for light punishment is super sensible. Yes it will take forever and a half to finish the job, but if every light punishment chips away at that for a fraction of the total rivet-replacing time, over time, you stay on top of your planned maintenance and your ship stays running longer without suffering some kind of catastrophic failure. If you look at, say, military ships, when sailors are deployed and not in some kind of active engagement situation, they spend huge amounts of time just maintaining their ships (apart from the massive amounts of maintenance that happens off deployments, in dock or drydock), and that’s just with a survival baseline of ‘floating’ with assistance no more than a day or two away if an emergency happens. Not for a spaceship out on an adventure in the space hinterlands. Maintenance is a super, super interesting and involved thing, and I actually really love that detail as a tiny glimpse at what it takes to keep a ship like this running.
Awesome math < 333 Thank you!
Humans do have larger size differences though - children are a thing. A lot of architects and city planners don’t count children, but more begin to do so now. A toddler and a basketball player, yeah. Sizes.
Oh, but in terms of general design, children frequently aren’t factored in at all! Like, designing homes so that toddlers can comfortably exist, that’s one thing. But so a toddler-sized person can do adult-sized things, that’s much less often a concern. Little kids can’t always reach light switches or doorknobs, and with hands as little as theirs, they can’t manipulate standard scissors, and using general adult-sized tools (not just tools-tools, but just anything sized for an adult grip) would be awkward and/or painful, enough so that regular use could contribute to repetitive strain injuries. A kid, going to my work, they wouldn’t be able to reach the card readers, they wouldn’t be able to reach the door handles, they probably couldn’t move the heavier doors, a toddler couldn’t climb into my rolling chair without assistance, and a standard keyboard where I can touch-type wouldn’t be a good ergonomic fit for little kid hands.
So a kid can exist in an adult-sized environment, and they can do some things, but they’re facing massive disadvantages trying to do the same daily tasks using tools, buildings, etc. designed for an average adult. It’s something you hear about little people having to cope with if you read the right publications, but they’re outside that 5% female bound, so if there are constraints on the environment, they’re going to be one of the first groups to stop being actively accommodated. In human buildings, small people will FIT, because that’s how sizes work, but they’re going to struggle in other ways. On the flip side, a basketball player will… usually fit, because they aren’t too wide and high ceilings are relatively easy to do. But they’ll still have to duck to fit through doors, they won’t fit in compact cars, and they’ll struggle with things like airplane seats. Two kids in my freshman dorm hit their heads on their ceiling if they stood up straight. And people who are outliers in terms of width have their own problems in similar areas.
Plus the anthropometrics cover all sorts of dimensions like hand size and arm length, that all factor into the complete action profile needed to do any one of tons of everyday actions. The outliers who can get BY a lot of the time, but human accommodations for someone like a basketball player fall way short of robot accommodations for, say, Ultra Magnus.
Like, lemme talk in terms of military ships, because that’s a much more constrained environment. In a sub, you’re working with narrow halls, short little hatches, tiny bunks. A tall person simply won’t fit. You can get SOME height, but there’s a point where you just can’t serve on a sub if you’re too tall, because you can’t fit in the bunk. And a little person wouldn’t be able to serve either, because the environment is so constrained that things are too high for them to reach. Someone wide around is legit going to have trouble getting around because everything is so tight. A surface ship is much less constrained, but… still pretty constrained. You won’t run into as many of the issues, but the accommodations people build in just stop at a certain point, and if you tried to get them to account for a little person or a seven foot basketball player, you’d just get a shrug. And then something like a jet fighter is SUPER constrained in terms of who can pilot them, because this person needs to fit nicely into this very, very specific environment, and like hell they’re paying to redesign this expensive jet to fit more randos, that’s just not happening.
But this extends to more than plain dimensions. Ergonomic evaluations are just… super complicated, but it comes down to a statics/dynamics analysis of weight loading and stresses on various body parts. Even if a person CAN do something, is that task going to cause damage to their body over time? Even if a 5th percentile female can technically carry out the same LRU replacement maintenance task as a 95th percentile male, the physical dimensions of her body can SIGNIFICANTLY change those numbers from what that guy is going to experience. Her hand is littler than his, is this grip too wide for her? His hand is wider than hers, can it fit into the same tight area to do the task? If they’re lifting from five feet off the ground, she’s working at shoulder height and he’s working at chest height, and that’s going to affect their shoulders SUPER differently. Six feet off the ground? Oh my god, no, her shoulders will die, and you risk her dropping the thing right on her face. But go too low and the guy is going to have problems unless he kneels– and now fold that into your analysis too. Now account for weight, duration, frequency, periodicity, vibration, the rest of their body position, and any tools necessary for the task.
Just accommodating the 5th percentile female to 95th percentile male can get crazy hard. Even in terms of like, personal protective equipment. Standard equipment won’t work for everyone, even in terms of something as basic as glove size. And if you make PPE too uncomfortable/task-complicating, then people will go without and cause more safety risks. But specializing it to everyone ups your costs like whoa and introduces new problems if people use the wrong things or equipment goes missing and they have to make do with poorly fitted PPE. Small hands won’t be able to hold average sized grips well, and large hands won’t be able to comfortably fit into average grip spaces.
I’m all over the place, but a couple years ago I was head safety engineer for a big contract, working hand in hand with the full-on HSI engineers, and just trying to get the design engineers to size an LRU handle properly so an average sized hand could grab it was a multi-month fight. Explaining the weight limits for a single-person lift was equally painful. And the body stress analyses are complicated enough that analytic simulation tools look kind of… shockingly underdeveloped. Which they aren’t, a ton of work has gone into these things, the math is just so complicated to work out, even in a simplified way. I’ve done analyses that are literally laying a protractor on top of a photograph to see what angles people’s joints are making.
Haha, I’m really all over the place with this now :P But in a home environment, most humans can comfortably exist, even as extreme outliers. Once you start expanding out into stuff like driving (or other travel) or shopping or office work, you start running into issues, and once you hit a military/industrial environment, like large parts of the transformers universe are, human accommodations get surprisingly limited. It’s really interesting stuff, especially the raw theory of it, even though being the engineer raining on everybody else’s design parade is a fairly stressful experience.
This got better ^^^ Awesome.
I recently read an article (can’t find it!) about a European town doing an urban design study to reduce the number of pedestrian/car accidents. They quickly found that children were most vulnerable. To model what happened, they sent a robotic camera at a five-year-old eye level to navigate their streets.
Now they are removing a bunch of bushes, signs, fences and so on. Because their small robot friend discovered it could not see the incoming traffic until too late.
Nobody bothered to check if children can cross safely, till now.
If you put the teabag in first I will judge you.
Ghostview
I suggested making an OC a while ago out of this car. I’ve had nothing else to do all day and someone encouraged me…
Keep reading
I refound this OC here. Actually kind of like him.
wait… if you have social anxiety… and i have social anxiety…
then who’s going to order the food?
This has been a legitimate problem I have faced with my friends.
Japanese Sumo robots
this is the funniest gif i’ve seen all week what the fuck is going on
the best part is this isn’t even HALF the relentless bullshit insanity that goes on in robot sumo wrestling, a sport where the contestants are all hyperfast robots with scoop attachments and preprogrammed moves.
(this one wants to be a beyblade when it grows up)
the idea is to include as many unique moves as you can, to make your shrieking deathbot difficult to counter
or dodging. that works too.
also, some of the speed demons have… unorthodox attachments to fool other bot’s sensors
WIIINGS MOTHERFUCKERRRRRRR
robot sumo is also a sport where spectators may end up taking a small robot to the shins if they aren’t careful.
FLYYYYYYY
I hope you enjoyed our foray into madness!
Mini bots version of pit fighting.
You know what past me, I agree with you.
ratchet i know that battles can be confusing but you’re helping up a decepticon in the middle of a fight
Why does his fucking head look sNAPPED
Gotta love G1 animation.
i just found fullbody turnarounds of all the tfp robots and im going to share because im a good person
op
ratchet
bulkhead
bee
arcee
smokescreen
wheeljack
there isnt one for cliffjumper but there is this
starscream
knock out
breakdown
airachnid
soundwave
skyquake (no dreadwing but this should still help)
unicron
megatron
im going to cry these will be so useful
You are an angel sent to us. Thank you.
With these upgrades they never stood a chance
Seeing videos like this makes me realize that we do truly have to integrate ourselves with technology or else we will be burned a fucking live by our on creations.
Most people tilt their head to their dominant side when they lean in for a kiss. Source Source 2
I always headcanoned Prowl as being left handed (so he and Jazz can sneakily hold hands under the tables whilst still doing work.) And now I’m just imagining them bonking their heads together trying to kiss before one realises they have to lean the other way.
That is all. xxx
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modern-day jekyll and hyde
Justice has been served, Sentinel. submitted by xenargon
me and herzy were laughing our asses off at fucking
this oh my god
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Those gravitational anomalies are always fucking us up.
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I’ll link the new account to follow once I’ve done.
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Solar Harvester Headcanon
Ori ships from Stargate look like they are powered by white dwarf stars…or sparks….I don’t know what to do with this information Transformers Fandom, but I feel like there is something here that I need.
*glares as I start making tech headcanons*
THIS is an AU use of a Solar Harvester: causing a star to “evolve, ”collapsing it into a blue dwarf. It runs HOT and provides a DEVASTATING amount of energy to power a ship and generate energon on board.
When a star like our Sun burns all of its hydrogen fuel, it expands to become a Red Giant. If its life cycle is accelerated…then once the outer layers are gone, the star collapses in on itself to form a very dense, very HOT, white dwarf star.
Massive Stars, evolve into Red Supergiants (like Betelgeuse) and can reach all the way to Jupiter’s orbit…they are MASSIVE and would not work for a ship. Their life cycle leads to a supernova and the unstable prediction of it collapsing into a black hole or a neutron star.
Someone help me nerd about the implications to Transformers ship designs and why Cybertronians may or may not ever think to take this approach based off their own spark fusion.
If it’s taboo…Shockwave did it anyway…
This ship is going to have a MASSIVE gravitational force.
Shockwave…you better divert that with SCIENCE.
*SLAMS FIST ONTO THE TABLE*
1. There is an alternate theory of space propulsion proposed in a sci-fi book called Singularity Sky that if a ship can project ‘mass or a gravity source’ in front of it, it is pulled forward through space toward that source of immense gravity. Technically it falls toward the source, so the ship is essentially falling forward through space if you want to break your brain in three dimensions a bit. Think of a carrot on a stick to move a cartoon donkey forward, the donkey runs faster and faster but the carrot stays the same distance in front of it the entire time. Think that what keeps you standing on the ground is that you are constantly “falling toward” the center of the earth under the force of gravity.
2. Cybertronians have space bridge and ground bridge technology, requiring what is essentially folding space, or creating wormholes for instantaneous travel. That either requires an OBSENE about of energy…or the diversion of a gravity field of a star perhaps.
3. *CACKLES AND ROLLS AROUND ON THE CARPET, I LOVE THIS SIDE EFFECT TO PERSONNEL ON THE SHIP SO MUCH*
I’M MOVING!!
I’m in the process of moving accounts, everything is staying the same don’t worry and this account is still going to remain but I just want to say after a few more queued posts it’s going inactive.
I’ll link the new account to follow once I’ve done.
See you there!
