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From: gkr@trout.nosc.mil (Gregory K. Ramsey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: battleships
Summary: mass not size
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.051225.27715@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 05:12:25 GMT
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From: gkr@trout.nosc.mil (Gregory K. Ramsey)

In article <1991Feb15.063834.6823@cbnews.att.com> plague@milton.u.washington.edu (Jack Brown) writes:
>It doesn't take very many Volkswagen Beetle sized shells to mess up whatever
                                             ^^^^^
>you're shooting at.


I realize that this might be nitpicking, but I would think that a
group as knowledgeable as this would not blindly follow the news media
into such an obvious error.

The projectiles on the BBs have the mass of a Volkswagen, not the
size.  They are at most 16" in diameter and ~5 feet long depending on
the the type of round.

Greg
greg@anacapa.ncel.navy.mil

[mod.note:  While I'm sure the author realized this, the message serves
to point out that one shouldn't assume that the readers will correctly
interpret a statement like this. - Bill ]