Re: [TML] Destroyer tonnage...
Cheng Tseng
(15 Sep 2014 22:44 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Destroyer tonnage...
Evyn MacDude
(15 Sep 2014 22:56 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Destroyer tonnage...
Peter Berghold
(15 Sep 2014 22:57 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Destroyer tonnage... Bruce Johnson (15 Sep 2014 23:01 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Destroyer tonnage...
Michael Houghton
(15 Sep 2014 23:17 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Destroyer tonnage...
Evyn MacDude
(16 Sep 2014 00:32 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Destroyer tonnage...
Ian Whitchurch
(16 Sep 2014 01:54 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Destroyer tonnage...
Phil Pugliese
(16 Sep 2014 13:32 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Destroyer tonnage... Bruce Johnson 15 Sep 2014 23:01 UTC
On Sep 15, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Cheng Tseng <xxxxxx@kennett.net> wrote: > ObTrva: I am still confused over how Traveller gets the displacement tons from the mass and vice versa, for a ship design. I always thought that going to a pure mass system (A la David Weber's Honor Harrington.) might be less confusing. It might be, but since jump drive is volume-dependent, not mass-dependent it makes sense to size ships in volume. Why it isn’t in cubic meters is probably due to some un-nammed naval traditionalist during the Rule of Man shoehorning the term into use. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs