[TML] 20mm cannons and bulky aliens

[Joseph Paul]

Is that good, bad or what? I don't have access to the books right now.

Joseph Paul

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 >----- Original Message ----- 
 >From: "Joseph Paul" <josephnjody at sbcglobal.net>
 >To: "The Traveller Mailing List" <tml at travellercentral.com>
 >Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:42 AM
 >Subject: Re: [TML] 20mm cannons and bulky aliens
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 >
 >>
 >> ><snip>
 >> Carrying capacity is also influenced by shape. We are not very 
 >well suited
 >> to carry much at all. Four footed creatures are often better at it. I 
 >> can't
 >> find anything on rhinos as they haven't taken to domestication 
 >well enough
 >> to measure a carrying capacity. I have a reference for Indian 
 >elephants at
 >> 545kilos but I think that is very conservative. The surface area of an
 >> Indian elephant is 20 meters square found here:
 >> 
 >http://idiosynchrony.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/a-half-wet-elephant/  That 
 >> is
 >> 27 kilos of armor per meter square. Anybody got some ideas on how much 
 >> armor
 >> that is in CT/MT/G:T terms? Humans have about 1.8 meters of 
 >surface area 
 >> and
 >> 60 lbs (27.2 kilo) is about the max we can carry for armor 
 >without serious
 >> degradation of performance. That comes out to about 15 kilos 
 >per m^2. So 
 >> in
 >> this case the big animal gets an edge it looks like.
 >
 >Well, according to FF&S, TL 7 light composite armor masses 7,000 Kg (7 
 >metric tonnes) per cubic meter or 0.007 Kg per cm^3.
 >
 >So, 27 Kilos at 0.007 Kg/cm^3 would be 3,857 cm^3.
 >
 >so, roughly a third of a square meter, about 4 square feet, one 
 >centimeter 
 >thick, giving a armor rating of 4.
 >
 >Garry
 >>
 >> Joseph Paul
 >>
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