Re: THIS MAKES NO SENSE! From: dagibbs@qnx.com (David Gibbs) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000 In article <5qipei$91j@drn.zippo.com>, <Dipz> wrote: >The guy who posted "galaxy question" got me thinking: > >How is it possible to have a cargo load on a spacecraft? After all, the ship is >weightless because it is in space! While a ship may be weightless because it is in space (not neccessarily true, valid if the ship is in free-fall, but a reasonable approximation) it is not MASSless. The actual explanation could be one of many -- but one possiblity is that the cargo is manipulated and kept with the ships by the use of tractor beams, and the maximum mass the tractor beams can handle is the limiting cargo load for the spacecraft. -David -- -David Gibbs dagibbs@qnx.com Up