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December 25, 2021 06:00 pm

Today I learned that the Death Star is the size of the Olympic Peninsula





Death Star for scale. | Image: Park My Spaceship



Park My Spaceship is the simple, extremely amusing app I didn’t know I needed. It allows you to superimpose to-scale images of notable spacecraft from sci-fi shows and movies over Google Maps. That’s it. It’s great. You can check to see if Serenity would fit in your backyard or if the Millennium Falcon could land in your neighborhood park. It’s been around since 2018, but I first encountered it this week when @CincinnatiPhil TILearned about it and shared his discoveries on Twitter.


I set about placing ships around the greater Seattle area and found that the Millennium Falcon fits nicely in the fountain plaza in front of the Space Needle, which would look cool as hell. You can almost fit a Star Destroyer in Lake Union or park it on...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/25/22850344/park-my-spaceship-google-maps

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