RE: Long post - RE: [OFFICIAL] Freighters/Merchants question

>slack.  Modern containers are rated to 24 metric tons of carrying
capacity, but must withstand being stacked up to 6 deep, meaning they
have
to be designed to support over 150 metric tons (cargo + container
weight). 
Obviously people don't worry much about a single container failing and
causing 150 tons to drop through the bottom of the ship.  The structure
of
a future sphere will be designed to handle "appropriate" amounts of
stress,
and like current containers, the owners will be responsible for their
structural integrity and liable for losses due to the failure of their
container.

Indy, when you write a news item based on this happening, have it happen
to
someone other than an AE company, please? <grin>

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