[Snipped Text] [QUOTE] Zero Gravity ~ weight? You ~ mong?[/QUOTE] In which case it's a mass.
Firstly, you'd want to control the movements of the cargo, using something like enhanced surface tension. Secondly, you've got to come down sometime, so you need to think about landing weight. Control and position of the cargo mass will be important too. Haven't you considered this?
Or bottles. Well ideally the cargo would, by this point, be churning around my guts. So the big problem would be what to do with all the empties... And where to get bigger trousers, probably. And a new liver Yes. A bit too much probably. Dave
Easy. Freeze it. To get it weightless *and* cold, all you have to do is move it a few hundred miles - should take less than three hours. "...it is very cold in space"
More weight. Well, chuck motion sickness into the equation and the fluid will once more become ambient. Good man.
A properly advanced fluid management technology would avoid messing up a decent drop of red with some dodgy emulsifier. What had you in mind, anyway? Some of Grimly's glycerine?
Only once I was within the gravitational pull of said landing zone.. In the Zero-G environment, it'd still only be 'more mass'...
In a zero-G environment, it would be irrelevant except for velocity changes. Once you're trying to get it back on the ground, it becomes a problem. But I can't figure what all that booze is doing in orbit.
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Vehicle weight limits are stated in units of mass. The gravitational pull on an object is stated in units of force. Saab filled with lots of strange "food" would mean a lot of mass and hence exceeding weight limit. Anywhere (let's keep to sensible speeds, well below the speed of light, as I'm worse than crap on theory of relativity). Empty Saab placed on Jupiter would mean enormous gravitational pull but no risk of getting fined for overload because mass is well below maximum. Why is it so difficult to distinguish between force and mass?
*LOL* Maybe about time to add a "RUMU#1" ("Rudimentary Understanding of Metric Units") to your sig..? /claus
What if you drove the Saab estate filled with jelly down a bumpy road, with the windows open, and had to make an emergency stop? http://www.theblob.info/blobmovietour/images/theablob.jpg
Of course it's nonsense. It's just the sort of nonsense you'd expect from an advertising/marketing type who sat through all the physics lessons at school trying to see up the skirt of the girls on the back row.
In the back of a car it's all of them and none of them. In a SAAB hatchback, no-one can hear you scream. Which'd be very handy for a nice juicy murder so beloved of the book-reading classes of Middle England.
Drink all the red wine, that sorts out the weight.. now as for control and position, well **** control and position, you're in outer space, in a car full of empty wine boxes and you *really* need a piss. Gas it, then phone Houston to tell them there's going to be a problem.
