From: Ellen K. 



On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 20:34:51 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>Well good for you, because the moment you realize that ships float on sheer
>luck alone, you'll never want to go on a cruise again!
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
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>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:be99k157cvn0tc9ln5cvfkkehr83p4sago{at}4ax.com...
>>I confess that I have never pondered the question of how ships float,
>> just accepted that they do.
>>
>> On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:35:10 +0100, Adam 
>> wrote in message :
>>
>>>Ellen K. wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm having a hard time imagining that one cubic meter of
water weighs a
>>>> ton, one cubic meter isn't very big.  Didn't the VW Beetle
weigh about a
>>>> ton?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Just out of interest, how do you think ships flot?
>>>
>>>So imagine a 100,000 ton ship & it's water line & it's
draft....& thus
>>>how much water it displaces in order to support all 100,000 tons
>>>
>>>
>>>Adam
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