[gurps] Golem volume

[Emily Smirle]

There's a problem with assuming that "people float, therefore their 
density must be 1.0-ish".

People *FLOAT*, therefore they are less dense than water. Things that 
are AS DENSE as water are neutrally boyant, and do not float. Nor do 
they sink.

Humans, on the other hand, bob around at the surface for approximate 
values of "surface" due to varying density between say, the upper torso 
(full of lungs) vs lower torso (interesting variations in fat 
distribution) vs limbs (lack of sinuses, digestive tract, OR lungs) vs 
head (sinuses, the void of the mouth and throat, etc).

All the numbers I have suggest that humans have a density roughly around 
0.75 kg/liter or 47 lbs/cu. fo. and this certainly seems consistent with 
observed behavior, along with being comfortably in the "denser than many 
types of wood, but less dense than notoriously dense woods" range.

-- 
Emily Smirle - Gal Dynamo
<smirle4498 at rogers.com>