Re: Waterjammers

At 9:54 -0600 5/26/03, Leroy Van Camp III wrote:
>On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 01:07 AM, Tilaurin wrote:

>Well, tonnage is based on volume.

Of th eship--the atmosphere isn't counted.
>
>>You're simply replacing air with water - it
>>seems fine that itd be the same size.
>
>What if I replace the air with stone?
>
>I can't imagine water not adding tonnage.

Flipside: why doesn't air add tonnage?

>If you ran across 1200 tons of water floating in space would
>it have no gravity?

Well, we know that a lump of earth has gravity, and a lump of water
has gravity, because of planets.  but, a lump of air has gravity,
too, as we know from planets, yet it doesn't have any impact on the
mass or gravity of a ship.  So, somewhere, there is a transition
point.
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