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That made me laugh out loud!

Dude. It's the cavalry. Not the Calvary. They're two different words which have nothing to do with one another.

@@themarlboromandalorian My bad for the spelling error and yes, you are correct. I haven't noticed. I've corrected the spelling.

Brilliant!

or a chemical weapon maybe?

The story did talk about new materials. Maybe a super light weight metal or something?

well this is space travel not water

Maybe a ‘Space’ ton… the sT 🤔 sT: The weight of a standardized asteroid confirming to a set of established dimensions and components. Yes, that sT! A 120,500 sT big ship 😎

Given that if you divide that by 16 you get around 7,500. That difference isn't too far removed from the largest surface warship designs (that have any real merit) and some of the smaller ones still worthy of being called a warship. 7500 tons might be a destroyer today, but it was a cruiser in the past, who is to say it won't be a corvette in the future. Also, the biggest commercial ships utterly dwarf the biggest warships. The biggest warships are American supercarriers, around 100,000 tons of displacement. The biggest commercial ship ever made was around 650,000 tons displacement, note: displacement, not deadweight or gross tonnage. (it was scrapped 15 years ago, and idk what the biggest currently is) food for thought: The gross tonnage of that 650k ton ship was only around 250k tons. Gross tonnage is about internal volume and tbh might make more sense for spaceships, since displacement is specifically about how much water a ship displaces. So if that 120,500 tons was gross tonnage, when thinking in terms of displacement it could be maybe 350k tons. Granted displacement and deadweight tonnage are about mass, gross tonnage and gross register tonnage (different from gross tonnage) are about internal volume. So both types of measurements have their place in a spaceship. It really only remains to choose which to use if one wants to use an existing unit. edit: Between the 1940s and the late 1960s, USN aircraft carriers a bit more than doubled in size. E.g. the USS Midway when launched weighed in at 45k tons. USS Nimitz, laid down in 68 and finally launch in 72, came in at around 100k tons. USS John F. Kennedy, the newest carrier launched in 2019 (still being fitted out and not in active service yet) weighs the same. I.e. in some things, even when bigger is better, there is still a size that is ideal.

oh you can be sure a second ships was done in the 4 mos it took them to get there wit all the glitches worked out

Possibly Canadian as we know there responsible for most of the Geneva convention

Ok dad no need to bring your Calc and drafting board to story time

Jerry forgot to carry the 3.

If your mass is 16 times larger, your speed will not increase using the same engine as one 16 times smaller.