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Re: Displacement Tonnage for Spaceships?
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Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:15:36 GMT
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Soudns inneresting, but waaaaay too complicated. Counting the length of my
ships is bad enough, let alone calcuating anything. I prefer to call my stuff
big, really big, insanely big, and ludicris big.
But I think Jon's SHIP term is good enough for me.
--Kyle
http://lego.kepplah.com
In lugnet.space, John P. Henderson writes:
> A long long time a go, in a thread far away.... actually, I think it was
> buried somewhere in this thread here:
> http://news.lugnet.com/space/?n=16923
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> And again here:
> http://news.lugnet.com/space/?n=18668
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> Some of us had discussed ways of indicating a spaceship's size, perhaps
> measuring it in hundreds of studs with Roman numerals, etc. Well, I have a
> few friends who play the RPG Traveller, and the new edition of the game has
> rules explaining how to describe fictional spaceships. I thought it might
> be something we could consider here.
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> In sea-vessels, size is often measured by how much water is displaced by the
> ship. In Traveller, spaceships use a convention of how much hydrogen might
> be displaced by the ship. (Presumably, the authors concluded that simple
> hydrogen is about as close to empty space as you can get and still have
> measurable mass. Also presumably, hydrogen is less dense than water, and
> thus a 1000 ton spaceship is actually larger than a 1000 ton seaship.)
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> ...Honestly, I am just looking for a cool statistic to add to my webpages
> when I post new ships. I don't expect this to be used for anything all that
> important, rather it is one of those trivial details that exist for the fun.
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> Let me know what you think,
> -Hendo
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| (...) Haha! :) I hope someday that I can build a ludicrous big ship. Most of mine are sorta small, fairly small, and diminutively small. :) (The Terrorformer and the Armegeddon being two exceptions of course.) -H. (24 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| A long long time a go, in a thread far away.... actually, I think it was buried somewhere in this thread here: (URL) again here: (URL) of us had discussed ways of indicating a spaceship's size, perhaps measuring it in hundreds of studs with Roman (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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