Re: looking for pics\SPOILER B5

>On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Mike Miserendino wrote:
>
>> >>Weight:	600 M Tons		Command Staff:	4
>> 
>> The weight seems a bit off though for a ship that big.  That is 600
Metric
>> tons, right?  If yes, I was expecting something like maybe 100,000
Metric
tons.
>
>It could mean Megaton, too (well, should be Mton in that case). 6
million 
>tons... for something a mere 300 meters long? And with B5 itself
massing 
>2.5 Mton... Hm.
>
>Oerjan Ohlson

	My guess was that it either meant 600,000 tons, and that the
usage
had been changed to make it unfamiliar (using M as in the Roman system),
or
that it referred to some "conventional tonnage" (like the different
tonnages
used for earthly vessels) or that the graphic was made by a numpty with
no
sense of numbers...

Rob Paul
NERC Institute of Virology 
Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SR	  Tel. (01865) 512361
rkp@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk
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