From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:34:51 -0400, Antti Kurenniemi
 wrote:

> 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
> ()

Or, when she figures out why they float she'll run from her bath naked down
the streets shouting "eureka!"
>
> "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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Gary Wiltshire

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