From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	BIG! Critters
Date:	Sun, 18 Jun 2000 19:48:34 +0200

According to Patrick Goodman, at 9:41 on 18 Jun 00, the word on the street
was...

> > How about using 1 ton = 1,000 kg in that case? It'll make your whole
> > calculations a lot easier, IMHO...
>
> It would have made the demonstration easier, true, but it wouldn't have been
> accurate. Most of the weights I'm familiar with for big critters is listed
> in short tons (2,000 pounds) versus metric tons (1,000 kg). Wanting to
> stick to the metric system as much as possible, some conversion is probably
> going to be necessary

My advice would be to quote the weights of these big critters in metric
tons, but maybe I'm biased in this respect because I'm not from North
America :)

> But you're right, for this example I should have just said 35,000 kg and
> been done with it (which, incidentally, would take 44 trolls with Strength
> and Body both at 10, expending a lot of effort in a simple deadlift, to pick
> up; carrying would be a different story).

This sounds like something out of a TV game show -- how many trolls does
it take to pick up a dragon, and how many can you then remove before the
others are squashed? :)

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