Gideon020 Wrote:Cobalt Greywalker Wrote:Change this. NOW.Changed to megatonnes, knew I missed something when I was doing the editing pass.
TNT has a density of 1.654 grams per cubic centimetre. Thus, one megaton of TNT takes up 60.459 cubic metres.
To compare, a TEU - the space contained by a standard 8'-tall shipping container - is 36.317 cubic metres.
So, even scaled down, that "doomsday device" takes two shipping containers to carry ... without much room left over for the detonator. (Assuming you're using TNT, of course. Other explosives have different densities.)
Just how big and powerful is this ship, that it can afford to devote that much space to what is essentially dead weight?
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