From: Adam 

Dave wrote:

> 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.

If it hadn't been I think herbie would have sunk......& in theory they
float rather well.

Adam

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