--- tack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guy thinks he found an alien capsule, and is having a hard time > getting it > out of the ground. Even if it's not alien, interesting engineering > problem
Ummm, his numbers aren't quite right: "We have gone to an structural engineer asking if its possible for a 5 by 2 oval space to weigh that much [10,000 pounds]. He said even artificially created super dense nickel steel coudlnt weigh that much in that amount of space. It just wasnt physically possible." Being liberal, considering it to be a 1-meter in diameter solid _spherical_ capsule, it would have a volume of 4/3*pi*1^3 = 4.19 m^3. Knowing that the density of (normal, terrestrial) nickel is 8908 kg/m^3, the mass of this sphere would be 8908*4.19 = 37,300 kg =~ 75,000 lbs. And nickel isn't the most dense metal (think depleted Uranium bullets)... Bunk, IMHO. -malen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com
