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Japan, their imagination of scifi stuff is great. These are from the show 宇宙戦艦 (Star Blazers, aka Space Battleship Yamato), which is a TV anime series (1974) based on the Japan Battleship Yamato. I watched it in Taiwan when i was ~10.

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https://twitter.com/xah_lee/status/966951751801696257

you can see more pics of the battleships at
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E6%88%A6%E8%89%A6&iax=images&ia=images
note that, back then, spaceship is imagined to be like ship but in space, shape and everything.