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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] This is slightly off-topic, but still slightly relevant. Several years ago, I wrote some articles for the tech fanzine "Logbook" of the Galactic Engineer's Condordance about how I use ships' volumes to determine both the complement and displacements (weights) of starships. (This group folded last year.) First, you need to determine the volume of the hulls of a ship (for example, the Constitution class). You can do this by breaking a ship into mathematical solids (spheres, cones, cubes, etc), by measuring deck area and multiplying by a constant deck height, or by making models in clay and then measuring the volume of clay used. Once the volume (in cubic meters) is determined, you divide the known crew size by the volume to get the number of crewmen per cubic meter, a kind of "crew density" factor. I've calculated that the crew density of the EntA is about 0.00227 crewmen per cubic meter, or about 440 cubic meters per man. Then when you design ships of the same type and same era, you multiply the hull volume by "crew density" to get the crew size. This is a rough method, but it's better than guessing. A similar method can be used to determine displacements of starships, either for hulls and engines or for complete ships. By the way, the weights of starships in recent canon and quasi-canon sources (official tech manuals: millions of tons) are much higher than in sources for the TOS and movie era (hundreds of thousands of tons). Sorry, these articles are not posted anywhere. But if someone is really interested, I can email a copy. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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