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On Tue, 6/23/15, Knapp <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Starship Berthing Philosophies?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 6:37 AM

 On Tue,
 Jun 23, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Peter Berghold <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 I can attest those folding sinks were a marvel of
 engineering.  I served at the Submarine Repair Facility in
 New London and used to marvel at how not a cubic inch of
 space was wasted on a submarine.  How submarines were
 appointed is how I envision starships being constructed. 
 The parallels between being underwater and out in space bear
 looking at.
 On Tue, Jun
 23, 2015 at 2:33 AM Knapp <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 The
 remaining officers were in staterooms that had three bunks
 and a folding sink. 
 How do you fold a sink? Did folding
 it up really save that much space? I can't quite picture
 this as a real space
 saver. 
 I think if spaceships do really need
 to be small then you are correct but do you really think
 spaceships would be so space limited? I don't see any
 reason for them to be that way once we don't have to
 lift out of a gravity well at high costs. If you can get
 asteroids with the raw materials and you can use the sun to
 power and melt, it should be quite cheap to build big rooms.
 The only reason I can see for them to be small would be to
 save mass, perhaps a cost of jump drives would be the mass
 or a military ship might want minimal mass to make it faster
 although I don't see much need for speed when you fight
 with lasers.

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As far as the TU is concerned the larger volume(DTons) would mandate higher operating costs due to larger drives & higher fuel
requirements.
But, then, there's always the example of the mystery ship from the 'Annic Nova' CT LBB adventure. It could charge it's JDrives for free.

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