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echo: barktopus
to: Ellen K.
from: Geo
date: 2005-10-12 22:11:44
subject: Re: No more artic ice by the end of the century?

From: "Geo" 

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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> 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?

Yes, and the speed that the boat is moving at can make it ride higher since
moving the water also generates pressure.

Geo.

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