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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] Guardian: Gross tons is only defined correctly as a measure of volume, regardless if you're using naval jargon or Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th Edition) ("America's Best-Selling Dictionary"). It's only weight if you use it incorrectly, which is what Scotty and the writers did.[/QUOTE]Sorry, I should've specified that I was referring to not using it as the naval-jargon [i]compound term[/i], so that gross is simply total. [QUOTE] they probably meant it to mean "total weight," but chose the number without much thought since it sounded good.[/QUOTE]And now we're stuck with it. [QUOTE]However, I like the writer's guide figure of 190,000 t. What you use on your site is your choice, of course. [/QUOTE]The funny part of the whole thing is that the Voyager mass figure, reduced commensurate to Connie volume, puts you within that ballpark. In any case, I'm actually rather fond of the 816,000 ton figure because of the realistic engineering history it implies. Since the first ironclads ships have changed in many ways, including propulsion, hull materials, and design. The propulsion advances alone wouldn't be enough to make a carrier from ironclad technology . . . it couldn't be done. The metallurgy advances alone wouldn't be enough to make a carrier from ironclad technology . . . it couldn't move. And so on. The starships of the Federation, then, using the same basic (but still improved) materials and alloys, still became lighter and stronger, and also more effectively driven by their more effective engines. As a result, it became possible to build larger ships that could go either the same speed or faster. The 190,000 ton Constitution value, however, seems to suggest that only propulsion has really changed between the 23rd and 24th Centuries. Ship design got curvier, but the ships were still built of the same things with the same density and characteristics. They just got heavier, but fortunately warp propulsion advanced to a degree where they could still go faster, have more power for SIF, et cetera. It takes the modern-day engineering concepts out of the equation in favor of improvements in technobabble. But that's just my opinion (written as I just woke up, so be gentle if I missed words). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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