You guys, I am a dork
For reasons of an RPG where such things do not matter, I wanted to find the interior space of a Correllian Corvetter. This is Leia's starship in the opening of Star Wars.
My initial attempt was knowing silly: Length times width times depth, assuming the ship is a solid object. That's 150 meters by 45 meters, by 32 meters. Or 216,000 cubic meters.
But, you guys, we're in the golden age of models. Fantasy Flight has both Armada and X-wing, and both have a Correllian Corvette.
Because this is a $10 project and not a $60 project, I get the one from Armada. It arrived tonight.
The model is so small I have difficulty measuring it. It is just 55 mm long! I think its displacement is 2.5 mL, but I'm really not sure. The resolution on my tools is too small to have a really accurate measurement.
If both those two things are right, then Leia's ship has an interior space of approx 50,000 cubic meters. I can say with some reasonable degree of belief that it is between 40,000 and 60,000 cubic meters.
This has been your math nerdery for the day.
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NERD!
ReplyDeleteAlso: One of us!
I would have just dipped the thing in a full graduated cylinder to see how much water was displaced.
ReplyDeleteSure, David Rothfeder, if I had one. That's the problem: resolution of tools.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this might help some.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.synicon.info/SW/br/tantive.htm
http://www.synicon.info/SW/br/tantive-inside.htm
You have two cups and some measuring spoons, dontcha?
ReplyDeletePut full cup inside slightly larger cup. Put model into full cup. If it's plastic and floats, gently push it down with a chopstick until it is submerged.
Remove inner cup and model. Pour contents of outer cup into measuring spoons. A teaspoon is 5ml. A typical set, at least in the US, is 1/4 tsp, 1/2 tsp, 1 tsp, 1 Tsp (15 ml). So if you're right, it's half a teaspoon.
Adam: That's too lossy. You'd lose water on the inner cup, and on removing it from the exterior cup. That's why I didn't use this method in the first place: lossy transactions.
ReplyDeleteIt's surely no more lossy than eyeballing it and guessing.
ReplyDeleteAdam Thornton What reaction do you expect here?
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