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Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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Wed, 9 Nov 2005 17:56:03 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Eric Harshbarger wrote:

A 15 inche GLOBE built as a Lowell Sphere:

http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/globe2.html

Wow, that does look great--but I think I have to contest your assertion that
Antarctica is a negligible land mass...even though it's covered in snow and ice,
I'm sure the land that is there is bigger than Madagascar.

Derek



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  Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
 
(...) Derek is correct, the physical land mass of Antartica is actually almost the same as the USA (5.4 million sq miles vs 5.9 million sq miles). The ice shelves and ice mass are in addition to this area. Having said that, your creation is way cool (...) (19 years ago, 11-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)

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  The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
 
There's no way I could have ever built my latest creation without the earlier work of the following two LEGO guys: - Bruce Lowell, creator of the first "Lowell Sphere" - Bram Lambrecht, author of the web-app that allows creation of any size Lowell (...) (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture) !! 

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