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Originally posted by PvK:
Aquatic ship sizes are often expressed in displacement in terms of weight of seawater displaced, which is exactly the same as the ship's weight, because that's what floating objects generally do (displace a weight of water equal to their own weight).
Quite right, I stand corrected.
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Space ships should probably be measured both in terms of mass and volume.
You're right but it should be pointed out that mass and volume are not neccessarily related.
I used to work for a magic show and this reminds me of something my boss used to say, "When we perform a magic trick we want the audience to have a
suspension of disbelief, they know it's a trick but are willing to accept the illusion as real in order to be entertained." That's the way it is with SE4 for me. I tend to think of the ships as smaller than Star Trek craft, which in turn would be dwarfed by some of the ships in Star Wars. The numbers are just labels for us to work with the system.
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