Crazy Grrrl on the Computer

Someone, thinking of the Beatles: Aw nice

The Outsiders (1983)

Pony wakes up at 4:30 one morning, not for any particular reason, just because he can't sleep. He creeps out of bed, being sure not to disturb Soda, who's dreaming away like always. Quietly he goes to the kitchen and pours himself a glass of water, moving to the living room where Johnny is curled up asleep in Darry's armchair. He must have come in after Pony went to bed. Pony sits down on the couch, and the cold that radiates from the window lets him know that it's snowing. He lifts the blinds to look-- he's always enjoyed how freshly fallen snow covers the world like a blanket, and so he surveys the quiet street.

Something catches his eye. It's a shape, still and silent, crumpled in the far corner of the lawn, half on the sidewalk. It's a person. His first thought is Johnny, but he knows where his friend is, asleep next to him. For a moment he thinks it could be Dallas, but there's no distinctive blond hair shining in the moonlight. He presses his face to the cold glass, trying to get a better look. Leaning to the left, he gets a glimpse of a face, icy and blue-lipped, half-buried in the snow. He knows that face.

Holy mother of God, it's Steve.

Pony drops the blind and screams for Darry, no longer worried about waking the house up. Right now his only worry is that Steve looks half-dead out there in the cold. Pony has never been Steve's biggest fan, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care.

He can't unsee the sight of that crumpled body on the lawn, cold and still and impersonating death. Even when Darry and Soda haul Steve inside, talking worriedly back and forth about hot baths and hospitals, it's all he can think of.

so, in other words,

tags via @procrastinatorproject

So while it’s true that the Enterprise is not as big as people think, that goes double for the Falcon!

A good way of thinking about the relative size is by using a bridge comparison:

The Enterprise bridge has space for 11 people to work, as well as a significant amount of space between stations to move around comfortably:

[Bridge illustration by Tobias Weinmann via here]

And the whole thing fits in the nipple thing up on top of the saucer:

Meanwhile the Falcon (beloved weed bus) has a cockpit that seats 4, with only 2 main operational stations, and zero floor space:

And since Serenity was mentioned too…

Serenity has a bridge more comparable to La Sirena - with 2 stations at the front and quite a bit of floor space.

And for those interested in a visual comparison:

(Boeing 747 for scale as well as the Delta Flyer because Why Not)