Re: [FT] Scale in Full Thrust

>>At 10:43 PM +0200 6/8/01, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
>
>Where did Karl mix? Tons are metric;1 ton = 1000 kg...

Short, Long or Metric. They aren't the same... :P

2000lbs for a short, 2240lbs for a long
>
>Hm. 63,490 kg is only 140,000 lbs. Where did you get 180,000 lbs 
>from? (doesn't change the result much, of course, since I had the 
>woods mixed up)

I think I made a mistake transcribing between calculator, conversion 
tables and email...

Hmm, it should be 160,000 lbs for 80 short tons. Thats 72,576Kg

>
>It is the same. Us continental Europeans use commas to denote 
>decimals - causes no end of problems with USAmerican computer 
>programmers who insist on using decimal points...

You Eurpoeans, always changing standards on people. I'm surprised you 
don't measure everything in pecks, furlongs, cords and stones... :P

Course I could have just used the South Eastern US unit of measure 
for weight (and volume or quantity, its really flexible)...its rarely 
heard outside of the South....it is of course the "mess".

"Your Grandpa brought home a mess of tomatoes from the farmers
market..."

I think the conversion factor from mess to ton is 134 or so.

>>  This is our total outside volume either of our tank or of our 
>>balsa wood block.
>>
>>63,490kg/87.78m3 = 723.28 kg/m3 this is the density of the tank.
>
>Pure water has a density of 998 kg/m3 (at 18 degrees Celsius), which 
>is a fair bit more than 723.28... <g> (Sea water is heavier still, 
>of course.)

We've added quite a bit of volume to this tank by taking outside box 
(rectangular) dimensions. A conformal volume would be even higher. 
The space occupied only by the gun and over the back engine deck 
would add quite a bit of density were we not taking that into account.

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