Apart from a few famous instances such as the well-documented sinking of the ships Essex and Ann Alexander by attackers estimated to weigh only one-fifth as much as the ships, this hypothesis is not well supported in current scientific literature.
It weighs only one per cent as much as glass, transmits light more effectively, and is a better insulator, resulting in a thirty-per-cent saving in energy costs.
The inelastic fibre, or floss, is too brittle for spinning, but it weighs only one-eighth as much as cotton.
These weigh only about one-tenth of the originals; 150 to 200 pounds each.
The fries themselves are surprisingly light, weighing only about one ounce each.
Saddam Hussein has been shopping for what he needs to make sure they work....The inspectors have deduced that the new design weighs only about one thousand three hundred pounds and measures about twenty-five inches in diameter.
The tiny turrets weigh only 10 pounds and at $40,000 apiece are one-tenth the price of the stuff on order that won't fit.
But hydrogen atoms weigh only about as much as neutrons, so a collision with one can slow a neutron down dramatically.
We weigh only thirty thousand tons.
As such, the monocoque weighs only about one-third of what it would if built from steel.
