[Humor] The Federal Corvette is 60x less dense than an equivalent amount of banana!

freedom4556

freedom4556
So, after posting this video (not mine, credit to Mat Recardo on Youtube)
[video=youtube;W4bEQlVvUvI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bEQlVvUvI[/video]
into a Reddit thread, the comments went something like this:

How many bananas is the Federal Corvette?
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Well, a stock Federal Corvette is 1714 metric tonnes, and Google says an average banana is 120 grams, so 14,283,333⅓ bananas by mass on average.

yeah but we're talking about size. you loose
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Well, using 160cc as the average volume of a banana (from this 2012 research paper) we get 2,588,063,300 bananas, but it's important to note this is for a rectangular prism encompassing the Corvette as I don't have its exact volume. :D

Divide by three for a more likely approximation!
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That tells you something right there, doesn't it? Approximately 900 million bananas in volume, but only ~15 million bananas in mass. The Federal Corvette is 60x less dense than an equivalent amount of bananas! [haha]

Just thought you guys might find that fun.
 
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freedom4556

freedom4556
Interestingly enough, a D-rating Hull Reinforcement Package and a Cargo Rack of the same size have the same mass. We could already be stuffing them with assorted fruits as armor.
 
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GraXXoR

GraXXoR
Yes, I came to similar conclusions comparing the Anaconda's mass to a fully laden Hindenburg brings some surprising results.
My previous thread got white knighted into oblivion with "900 year future materials are quite light..." etc.

They need a disclaimer on the home page that reads

"Warning, no actual scientists were consulted during the making of this game."

rather than:

"...with a full galactic and technological simulation based on real scientific principles."

I'll stop there.
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
freedom4556 said:
So, after posting this video (not mine, credit to Mat Recardo on Youtube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bEQlVvUvI
into a Reddit thread, the comments went something like this:



Well, a stock Federal Corvette is 1714 metric tonnes, and Google says an average banana is 120 grams, so 14,283,333⅓ bananas by mass on average.



Well, using 160cc as the average volume of a banana (from this 2012 research paper) we get 2,588,063,300 bananas, but it's important to note this is for a rectangular prism encompassing the Corvette as I don't have its exact volume. :D



That tells you something right there, doesn't it? Approximately 900 million bananas in volume, but only ~15 million bananas in mass. The Federal Corvette is 60x less dense than an equivalent amount of bananas! [haha]

Just thought you guys might find that fun.
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Bananas are heavy.

A standard 100m long tanker ship will typically have a lightship mass (Hull, engine and other fixed weights) of about 2000 tonnes. It's built from steel, with a density of about 8000Kg/m3. If you built it with the same plate thickness in regular Aluminium, the mass would be about 675 tonnes.

I would expect even less for a spaceship in 3302.
 

sewerratuk

sewerratuk
GraXXoR said:
My previous thread got white knighted into oblivion with "900 year future materials are quite light..." etc.
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Ahh, your probable mistake (without seeing the thread) was not putting :D[Humour] into the title. Hence rendering your thread as a dig at the game and instantly attracting criticism.


:D[Humour]
... phew, I think I got away with that
 
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askavir

askavir
ChubbyBunneh said:
Sounds like if you filled it with bananas you'd end up with a stronger hull than HRPs.
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In theory not, as bananas are too soft, not dense themselves.

Although if we could compress bananas up to a point we could create a banana singularity, and we could fill a corvette full of banana singularities, then they would possibly outperform HRP's.

However, banana singularities would have enormous mass, which would reduce even less the Corvette's jump range, making it a useless space banana.
 

[DOOK] Droogie

[DOOK] Droogie
sewerratuk said:
Ahh, your probable mistake (without seeing the thread) was not putting :D[Humour] into the title. Hence rendering your thread as a dig at the game and instantly attracting criticism.


:D[Humour]
... phew, I think I got away with that
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It's kind of like when someone from the southern US says "bless their heart", it absolves them of anything rude or mean they might say. "That is one ugly child, bless his heart".

Bless their heart.
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
askavir said:
In theory not, as bananas are too soft, not dense themselves.

Although if we could compress bananas up to a point we could create a banana singularity, and we could fill a corvette full of banana singularities, then they would possibly outperform HRP's.

However, banana singularities would have enormous mass, which would reduce even less the Corvette's jump range, making it a useless space banana.
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Banana fiber composite Corvette's are lighter, stronger and smell better. Not available for civilian purchase though.[sad]
 

FiddenUK

FiddenUK
Some of the ships in there (Asp for example) have a lot of space in the cockpit compared to the size of the person; mine is nowhere near as roomy as that!

Maybe I have too many crates of bananas stuffed under the dashboard...
 
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Zieman

Zieman
GraXXoR said:
Yes, I came to similar conclusions comparing the Anaconda's mass to a fully laden Hindenburg brings some surprising results.
My previous thread got white knighted into oblivion with "900 year future materials are quite light..." etc.

They need a disclaimer on the home page that reads

"Warning, no actual scientists were consulted during the making of this game."

rather than:

"...with a full galactic and technological simulation based on real scientific principles."

I'll stop there.
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Hmm. I did some rough calculations on big real aircrafts and E: D ships, using empty weight in both cases.
Aircraft tend to end at about 20-30 kg/m³, E: D ships about 10-15 kg/m³ - looks plausible to me...
 
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