Re: Cargo

>From: FELLOWS STEVEN B -5 CR [email removed]
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>  Someone mentioned that they could not understand why it would cost
>different amounts of money to ship different material.  100 tonnes of feathers
>as oppossed to 100 tonnes of machine parts.  Well, in my system, it would cost
>more for the feathers, since they take up more volume.

Waitasec.  I thought 100 tons referred to volume, as in equivalent
volume of 100 tons of liquid hydrogen.  The rest of the ship is
designed using volume-tons and this makes it easy to figure out
how much space you have left in your cargo hold.

Incidently, this is kinda like the way merchant ships plying the
oceans in the real world are measured--volume in tons of water.
Why?  Something to do with how much weight your ship can hold
before it sinks.

Of course, I can't think of any similar justification for using
liquid hydrogen volume-tons in Traveller.  Maybe if you wanted
to land your ship on a really cold gas (liquid) giant.
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John H. Kim
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