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joezydeco · 2023-02-01 12:47:48

What blew my mind was how large it was. You're thinking it's a camera...how large can that be? It's the size of a school bus.

Retric | karma 55819 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2015-12-31 18:06:41

There is a large range of bus sizes, a 40' giant squid would look larger than a small bus ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_bus#/media/File:Blue_Bi... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bird_Micro_Bird#/media/Fi.... But smaller than an extra large 97 seat school bus.

4death4 | karma 950 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2023-11-15 16:54:18

I think that might just be an illusion. The dimensions of a Citaro and a school bus are roughly the same.

scoopertrooper | karma 2491 | avg karma 2.9 · | 2019-11-28 10:44:52+00:00

That thing is the size of a building though.

tsotha | karma 4566 | avg karma 1.52 · | 2010-12-02 02:25:10+00:00

Those SAR sats are the size of a bus.

formerly_proven | karma 13110 | avg karma 3.44 · | 2021-06-22 14:07:46+00:00

The extremely wide FoV in the video makes it look far bigger than it is.

astrodust | karma 13331 | avg karma 2.07 · | 2015-03-09 18:16:07+00:00

It's small, but it's not as small. That thing's huge in comparison.

mikeash | karma 74524 | avg karma 3.52 · | 2017-01-19 16:39:45+00:00

Agreed. I first saw the image and thought wow, that really is big. Then I saw the specs.

I guess it's misleading because the engine is much closer to the camera than the background, but nothing makes that obvious. There's a tiny little person behind it, and if you don't realize the perspective difference, that would look like the engine is pretty huge.

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pimlottc | karma 7866 | avg karma 3.44 · | 2014-11-13 00:15:38

That picture needs some context for scale. My first impression was that it had a normal USB port and was much larger.

harry | karma 295 | avg karma 2.86 · | 2010-11-11 19:45:49

Larger than a city bus.

Oh, and in case someone hasn't seen Jaimie Manzel in all his retro 1990's site glory: http://jamius.com/

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Hamuko | karma 9515 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2020-11-15 17:25:51

It's not that small.

djsumdog | karma 25432 | avg karma 4.23 · | 2016-09-27 10:24:58

Interesting. The photo looks kinda bulky, but it's pretty zoomed in. I guess it's more DS sized?

chris_st | karma 1497 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2023-10-22 15:38:48

Really wish they'd photographed people next to these... I can't guess how large they are.

TallGuyShort | karma 11512 | avg karma 3.56 · | 2010-01-29 17:53:26+00:00

Ooh - I misread - I thought the article said that a camera _would_show the size difference. That is interesting.

onion2k | karma 46633 | avg karma 4.72 · | 2015-05-28 12:46:23+00:00

If that were the case then it'd be bigger in photographs. It isn't.

Anduia | karma 161 | avg karma 4.6 · | 2024-02-22 16:46:25

It is the size of a Tardis

benatkin | karma 7495 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2010-01-07 19:21:53+00:00

The size of its display is less impressive when you see how big the border is. That thing's got to be huge.

edgarjs | karma 21 | avg karma 2.1 · | 2013-10-24 15:32:30

it was the size of the iPhone image. Reload :)

dsfyu404ed | karma 7424 | avg karma 0.98 · | 2020-02-07 12:22:01

It's large overall but tiny per amount of cargo moved a distance.

Ehersman | karma 29 | avg karma 3.62 · | 2013-12-03 12:59:50+00:00

It's interesting that you thought it was so small at first. I've been talking to a number of people about the size over the last few months, and the most common reaction is, "I thought it was bigger". For some reason our early photography left the impression that this was the size of a shoe box or car battery. In reality, it's about the size of 3 stacked iPhones.

We've got some pictures with it next to computers and on top, or near, other "stuff". That was the idea we were going for in that top header image on the site anyway.

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