How Big is Red Dwarf? | Ship Size | Red Dwarf Nerd
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Published 2021-03-25
Just how big is the original Red Dwarf ship? We all know it's massive, but just how massive is it? Let's compare it to the Titanic, the Empire State building and even Mount Everest to find out the ships real size, in this Red Dwarf Fact File episode!
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All Comments (21)
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Rimmer's line to Kryten "Scrub the diesel deck, all 5 miles!" supports only the habitable area counting.
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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.
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The little guy painting the name on the ship must have been king Kong by this scale.
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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
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They are in space so the 'bottom' may be the end with the engine so the average floor height would be 3.11m
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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 👌
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Great video, the heights of the floor could be even bigger if the elevator runs down the length of the ship.
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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?
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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.
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In the novel they have golf carts or something to get around on the ship with, which makes sense with this size of ship.
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It’d be interesting to see red dwarf compared to other ship’s from Sci fi series, such as the enterprise 😁
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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.
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@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! :)
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Now I'm interested in seeing the sizes of the other Red Dwarfs
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Great video! Just one note, technically the Titanic was an ocean liner, not a cruise ship.
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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.
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Love your content. I hope to see more videos. Keep up the great work ✌
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It also says in the red dwarf season 1 documentary they say it a huge 5 mile long ship
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That's a crazy good video!
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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. 😂
