Re: carrying/lifting stuff

From: Kmnellist_at_...
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:27:16 EDT


In a message dated 4/10/00 7:15:59PM, you write:

<<
 I'm not sure of the weights involved, I suppose some of the Powerlifters  and the like might lift the mass of an elephant, but I doubt they could  just go and pick one up none the less
>>

Which is why the whole SIZE equivalency thing is a bit silly/irrelevent. Calculating loads (for mules, for 40ft trailers, for shooping from a supermarket...) often has as much to do with volume as with mass, with containment and balance as with sheer weight.

Keith N

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