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

[Knapp]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Timothy Little <tim at little-possums.net> wrote:
> 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 would go with that except at a starport. You don't want to have to
rebuild them all the time. You would want a flat surface that lasted
for a long while.


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Douglas E Knapp
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