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lrasinentoday at 5:11 PM1 replyview on HN

Average density for non-uniform objects is pretty useless, since the cubic volume scaling makes a mess of things.

As an example, I pulled the stats for an electric locomotive. 19x3x4.4 meters, mass 90 metric tonnes. That's an average density of about 1/3rd of water.


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Rygiantoday at 8:21 PM

So a locomotive floats. Interesting.