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Old 04-25-2019, 01:46 PM   #23
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: Cracking water in TRAVELLER

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Originally Posted by Mike Wightman View Post
The GT 500 cubic feet displacement ton and 5'x5'x10' deck plan square are a much better match to the actual dimensions of 1000kg of liquid hydrogen.
I suspect the *original* scaling of traveller was 5'x5'x10' squares, something that started out metric would probably use either 1m squares or 2m squares, but 5' is 1.524m, so if you wanted to turn 5' square maps metric with minimal change, you use 1.5m squares.
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