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Originally posted by Dracus:
The weight of an object has nothing to do with size. It has to do with the stuff the object is made out of and everything packed into it. If I build a 4 story 4000 sq ft building out of paper and put nothing in it, it will wieght a lot less then the same building maded out of steel and packed with gastanks, food, people, defense systems, computers,etc.
Nevertheless, the volume of of ship is measured in tons. This refers to the weight of seawater displaced by the volume. A ton of seawater occupies a given volume, and that volume is a ton of displacement.
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