Re: Fleet Book Tonnage

Noah Doyle wrote (in a post where the entire previous post:was still
attached, although *this* time at least it wasn't too large...):

>  Traveller's 'tonnage' was a measure of 
> volume (volume displacement of 1 tonne of liquid hydrogen), which also
gave 
> an average mass when using the density of water (???) at least as far
as 
> TNE went.

Of course it did. One tonne of Mass is one tonne of Mass, no matter what
substance  you	use... it's the volume that changes: 1 tonne of liquid
hydrogen is roughly 14 cubic meters, while 1 tonne of water is 1 cubic
meter.

>  As far as a spaceship is concerned, at least ones as high-tech 
> as FT's, volume is not a consideration - mass is.  Well, how spread
out
it 
> is would be a concern as well, but there's not a lot of 'open-frame'
type 
> ships in FT (too bad :).

They are warships. An open structure is a sot harder to armour than a
closed one...

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson
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