From: Ellen K. 

OK, so to be serious (!) for a moment, does this mean that the way ships
float is based on the relationship between the weight of the ship and the
weight of the amount of water it displaces?

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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