From: Dave 

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:58:19 -0700, Ellen K.
 wrote in message
:

| 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?

Quite a bit less than a ton, it weighed about 1500 pounds.  But a VW Beetle
was full of air.  If you crushed it into a solid mass it would be
considerably smaller than a cubic meter.

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