[TML] Firefly, wait no it is a Subsidized Merchant ship.

[Timothy Little]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:29:42PM -0400, Tom B wrote:
> 5000 lds/sq ft was what I saw for sand. I got it from building
> footings/foundation stuff, but they have the same constraint - can't
> sink into the ground.  12000 lbs/sq ft was for bedrock.

That's what I looked for at first, but then realised that foundations
have the very much more stringent requirement that they not deform by
more than a few millimetres over a timespan of decades.

I don't think it would matter very much to a starship if their
supports shifted a hundred times as much, and a thousand times faster.


> I'm assuming it can fail or be turned off (accidentally or
> purposely) and thus you can't depend on it.

Likely a safe assumption.


- Tim