Further proving I have too much time on my hands.

[twincityhacker]

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.

Comments

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... I always imagined the SOL being much bigger. 4.68 meters tall? I think the SOL has mulitple decks plus the bridge set from the movie was maybe 5 meters tall in appearence, maybe more. Maybe the SOL shrank in the wash after the movie...?

In my mind's eye I saw it being about the size of Reality One, only slightly smaller and much more mobile. I have no clue to Reality One's size, so I can't explain exactly how big I see the SOL. o.O

BTW, there's some info on the SOL's launch online... somewheres... ::digs through her links:: Here. It's details on the SOL's "shipping case". Dig the instruction label. And there's also neato info on Gizmonics. It's not really up to date, since Gizmonics has expanded in recent years. There's a real-life Big G Pizza in the north end of Thunder Bay.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, your're right about the SOL being just a touch on the small side. When I was figgureing this all out, I was thinking that the SOL had one deck on the long section with the spheres being a room on each.

I think there's more than 14 decks, since there were about 14 deck explosion sounds before the big crash sound at the end. I would have to see it to make sure, but I think I'll be too busy crying to notice...

And, yes, Tom's Temple of MST3K Stuff rocks. I like listening to the sounds in the vault.

SOL in a space speed race?

[hideyuki-tah.livejournal.com]

I wonder who would win, among all the starships that have ever existed. Not the small kind like a Tie Fighter, like a big ass ship. Other than that....

I always figured the length was about half that of a Star Destroyer. Then again, I'm not really much of a sci fi fanboy. Also, if you ever get the chace, dload Witch Hunter Robin, cool show about witchs, and witch hunting (bet ya couldn't figure that out!). The lead char is pyrokenetic!

Re: SOL in a space speed race?

[the-crazy-lady.livejournal.com]

^^ and you all know how much we love pyros ;)

Re: SOL in a space speed race?

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

...Fire? FIRE! Now I must find it...