I don't know why people have so much trouble with inconsistencies in their huge fictional universes. I mean, look at Robotech. Half of the episodes of Robotech weren't even from the same series. Actually, they didn't even take place on the same planet. And RoboTech is, umm, a great, uhh, dynamo of science fiction. So there you go.
I believe it's even more complicated than that. Volume, Temperature, Pressure, and mass may all vary somewhat. Consider, derived from the Ideal Gas Law you can get:
To really determine how much gas you're getting you need to check the volume, the pressure, the temperature, and then actually the chemical content of the gas itself (since impure gas will have a different average molecular mass). Then you can calculate the actual mass you have (or you could weight it and then calculate the volume based on the other factors). Just weighing it isn't enough to give you accurate results.
To disclaim, some of these factors may have more impact on results than others.
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I don't know why people have so much trouble with inconsistencies in their huge fictional universes. I mean, look at Robotech. Half of the episodes of Robotech weren't even from the same series. Actually, they didn't even take place on the same planet. And RoboTech is, umm, a great, uhh, dynamo of science fiction. So there you go.
Anyway. Romulans. Feh.
I believe it's even more complicated than that. Volume, Temperature, Pressure, and mass may all vary somewhat. Consider, derived from the Ideal Gas Law you can get:
mass = (molecular mass) * pressure * Volume / (R * Temp)
To really determine how much gas you're getting you need to check the volume, the pressure, the temperature, and then actually the chemical content of the gas itself (since impure gas will have a different average molecular mass). Then you can calculate the actual mass you have (or you could weight it and then calculate the volume based on the other factors). Just weighing it isn't enough to give you accurate results.
To disclaim, some of these factors may have more impact on results than others.
I believe Ico was also a favorite at Penny Arcade. They tend to have pretty good taste, IMO. Found three related comics in their archive:
here
here
and here
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