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Dan Dixon

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Monolith from 2001
« on: June 21, 2011, 06:46:44 PM »
I'm adding the monolith object from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series of novels and films to the objects list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_(Space_Odyssey)

Does anyone have thoughts on what it's default mass should be?

Its size will be 37 x 148 x 333 cm.

But if it's density is similar to air then it only weights about 2 kg.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1823508+cm^3+at+1.25+kg%2Fm^3

Of course you'll be able to scale the size and change the mass, but what should the defaults be?
« Last Edit: June 22, 2011, 02:55:22 PM by Dan Dixon »

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Re: Monolith from 2001
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2011, 11:50:25 AM »
I think something around lead or iron density. But I don't think thats how it would be... idk

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Re: Monolith from 2001
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2011, 05:39:03 AM »
Try to find average density of Obsidian and couldn't find anything. I guess since it's usually made of different stuff it's not always the same.

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Re: Monolith from 2001
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2011, 12:38:06 PM »
About the density of cast iron.

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Re: Monolith from 2001
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2011, 03:05:27 PM »
Try to find average density of Obsidian and couldn't find anything. I guess since it's usually made of different stuff it's not always the same.

http://www.google.com/search?q=density+of+obsidian

Looks like 2.6 g/cm^3 (or ~2600 kg/m^3)

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Re: Monolith from 2001
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2011, 01:45:49 PM »
Now how come when I googled that I did not get all that. :|

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Re: Monolith from 2001
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2011, 09:23:27 PM »
Maybe you typed obsidian density instead of density of obsidian.