Re: Waterjammers

On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 02:14 PM, woodelf wrote:

>>> 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?

The system seems to generally differentiate gasses from
solids. I do not know of any precedent for how liquids are
specifically handled (other than planets), but I cannot imagine
a 1200 ton glob of liquid not having gravity in SJ. I cannot
get all official about it, because I don't know if they ever have
either. They have about air, though.


>> 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.

Yes, but I recall SJ discussing that large bodies such as
planets are often anomalies when it comes to the physics
of Arcane Space. I can't quote anything at the moment, so
perhaps my memory is fuzzy.

This is all just my interpretation. But we know air envelopes
don't add tonnage. I can't imagine a 1200 ton blob of water
in space not having gravity. Ergo, you fill a ship's air envelope
with water and you have increased its tonnage. Fill it all the
way, and you have increased it 27 fold.


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