On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > David wrote: >> 3000 tons (These are normal 2000 lb tons, right?) is only about 100 >> shipping containers. given this is an osekmoi ship, it's going to be >> usually carrying containerized cargo. Star ship containers in this >> setting are nominally 20mX10X10, and will hold smaller (roughly ISO >> sized) containers if that makes sense for the cargo. This shuttle >> looks like it would carry four or five of them. With suitable cargo >> handling equipment on the ground, it would only take a couple hours to >> unload them and then load new ones. (breaking them down into their >> component containers would take a while, but that doesn't have to >> delay the ship.) > > 600 or more tons per container? That requires a big crane, which > implies a big starport. Many smaller containers could be faster > to load. >
My neighbors have a 300-something ton mobile crane, cost them a million year 2K bucks, or so. I'm sure there are much bigger mobile cranes around. A fixed one would be lots cheaper. http://www.manitowoccranegroup.com/MCG_GRO/Products/UK/GMK6300.asp is the one they've got. If there's enough work around here for them to have that, I suspect that such a crane would be available anywhere. Particularly at TL10. Fully developed TL 10 worlds are *rich*. Lots richer than GURPS wealth rules imply. (My neighbor is a crane rental company....) -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
