How does a boat the size of a small city float?
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The best way I saw it explained and where it sunk in for me, was the way a 55 gallon drum floats. If an empty 55 gallon drum weighs about 40 pounds and 55 gallons of water weighs almost 460 pounds (according to some googling), as long as the drum weighs less than the water it could possibly hold, it’ll float.
You can probably extrapolate further with big ass boats. If the big ass boat weighs 100,000 tons, but could potentially hold 1 million tons of water, it’ll float.
That’s probably way way over simplifying it, but at least that’s how I keep it straight in my head 😁
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