Further proving I have too much time on my hands.

After reading the "Brilliant 10" article in Popular Science, I was wondering if the design of the Satellite of Love was as impratical for actual launcing as I though, or not. But first I needed to figure out the dimensions of the SOL since I've never actaully seen them anywhere.

So I popped "Prince of Space" into the VCR and measured the hight of the Widowmaker and the hight and width of the SOL, made a little ratio, and set to work finding the hight of a VWBus. I didn't find itm but I found a model, and took the hight off that (6.5 cm) mutiplied it by the ratio of the model (1:24) mutiplied that by the ratio of the Widowmaker to the SOL (1:3) and got about 4.68 m.

So going off of that measuerement, I got the length and other hight of the SOL from the opening in "Girl in Gold Boots". So my rough mesurements of the SOL is so: 4.68 m tall with the spheres on the end, and 10.21 m long from bow to stern.

The Satellite of Love was a bit smaller that I supposed. But it's not really that much larger when compared with the Widowmaker



And yes, all of this is leading to somthing EXTERMELY fangirlish in more ways than one.