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  1. Newsgroups: sci.military
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ciss!law7!military
  3. From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
  4. Subject: Re: Is this true?
  5. Message-ID: <C17w33.FK8@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  6. Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
  7. Organization: Indiana University
  8. References: <C10pK1.48F@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  9. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:45:03 GMT
  10. Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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  14. From ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
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  16. In article <C10pK1.48F@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> System Administrator <tgeer@pro-gumbo.cts.com> writes:
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  18. >3) I don't know if the forty-thousand ton figure above is its displacement
  19. >   or actual weight (I would guess displacement), but how does this compare
  20. >   with the weight/displacement of modern aircraft carriers?
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  22. Aren't the two exactly the same? The amount of water displaced by a 
  23. floating body is equal to its weight? Of course, *actual* displace-
  24. ment might be different than the figure the Navy calculates if they
  25. use some rule of thumb or formula..
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