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Re: cheb'a' to the Kg. was (Re: Higher math)





On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, 'oghwI' wrote:

> >Steven Boozer schrieb:
> >> This is literally "The ship weighs 375,000 {cheb'a'mey}" -- "375 {SaD}",
> >[...]
> >> Speaking of which... is Okrand's math right?   One {cheb} = ca. 2.25 kg/5
> >> lbs, and according to charghwI's interview with Okrand one {cheb'a'} = 9
> >> {chebmey}.  So the BoP weighs ca. 7,593,750 kg.  Where did the 8.7 KT
> >> figure come from?  Is a kiloton one million tons?
> >
> >1 kiloton = 1,000 tons = 1,000 x 1,000 kg = 1,000,000 kg
> >
> >About the difference 8.7/7.5:
> >- We don't know how much a cheb really is
> >- this ship cannot weigh *exactly* 375,000 cheb'a'mey

Okay I'm going to take the plunge:

I have with me a copy of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual
(ISBN: 0-671-01563-X) by Herman Zimmerman, Rick Sterbach, and Doug
Drexler. Among the many pieces of information are the stats. for a B'rel
class Bird of Prey. Her they are:

TYPE: Scout
ACCOMMODATION: 12 plus flight crew and troops.
POWER PLANT: One M/A warp system; two impulse systems.
DIMENSIONS: Length, 157.76 m
	    Beam,   181.54 m
	    Height,  98.54 m
MASS: 236,000 metric tonnes

Taking the figue of 375,000 cheb'a'mey to be accurate and setting it equal
to 236 kT we get:

1 cheb'a'=approx. 630 kg

	-AND-

1 cheb=approx. 70 kg

This works out to be 1,386 lbs. and 154 lbs. respectively.

BTW, I'm assuming that the 375,000 cheb'a'mey/236 kT mass is Dead Weight
Mass, ie. the mass of the ship BEFORE fuel, provisions, ammo, and so on
are loaded onboard.

David Joslyn
aka quljIb


P.S. Can anyone tell me where I might find this famed Bird of Prey poster?



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