On 16 Sep 2014 at 17:19, Cheng Tseng wrote:

> For the Honor Harrington verse, Weber started out with a few mention
> of ship dimensions alongside ship mass, but eventually he went to
> only ship mass, due to some calculations of the ships in his books
> coming to the conclusion that they had to be made of smoke in order
> to make all the calculations work....

I wasw one of the folks who (many years back) pointed out to JMS on
the usenet Babylon5 group that the opening sequence was *way* wrong
on the mass of the station.

The *air* in the station massed more than the figure mentioned in the
opening credit. :-)

The square-cube law gets so many folks...

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