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In lugnet.build.contests, David Eaton wrote:
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If they had 56 teams... hmm... (doing math)... They’d need to allow for 8
teams all going at once, and that’s assuming 3-hour blocks for each time
slot, no time for cleanup, etc. And that’s also for the duration of the
entire show (which closes at midnight Friday and Saturday). So that would
quadruple the amount of space they needed, assuming they wanted to stress the
schedule with times so frequent and close together. And of course they’d need
110 ISD’s to build with. Wow. $33,000 worth of ISD’s. How awesome would that
be?
Even with 8 teams, that’s 14 ISD’s, which is still impressive. I wonder what
they do with the completed brick? Give it to the team that built it, I guess?
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Simple--you disassemble the assembled ISDs and use the materials to build as
many SSDs as possible. How many ISDs did we determine you’d need to build one
to-scale SSD? You should be able to squeeze a few out of 110 ISDs, right?
Dave!
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In lugnet.build.contests, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Simple--you disassemble the assembled ISDs and use the materials to build as
many SSDs as possible. How many ISDs did we determine you’d need to build
one to-scale SSD? You should be able to squeeze a few out of 110 ISDs,
right?
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I dunno, it’d be cutting it close I think! The SSD is what? Like 10x the size of
an ISD? Which, from an area perspective would require 100 ISD’s to have the same
surface area. And the remaining 10 to try and give it some semblance of
structural integrety. Wow. And not even remotely close to a Death Star.
DaveE
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In lugnet.build.contests, David Eaton wrote:
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In lugnet.build.contests, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Simple--you disassemble the assembled ISDs and use the materials to build as
many SSDs as possible. How many ISDs did we determine you’d need to build
one to-scale SSD? You should be able to squeeze a few out of 110 ISDs,
right?
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I dunno, it’d be cutting it close I think! The SSD is what? Like 10x the size
of an ISD? Which, from an area perspective would require 100 ISD’s to have
the same surface area. And the remaining 10 to try and give it some semblance
of structural integrety. Wow. And not even remotely close to a Death Star.
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Jeez! I hadn’t done the math and didn’t realize that the SSD was quite so huge.
The excellent radio program This American Life ran a
story about living aboard
the aircraft carrier
USS John Stennis. One person had the tedious job of restocking the ship’s
vending machines for the crew of 5,000, twelve hours per day. I know that
droids would probably handle this kind of thing on an SSD, but yikes! How many
Womp Rat Bars might the crew consume in a day?
Hey, while we’re on the subject, I came upon
this nice SSD by Mike Taylor while
googling for MEGABLOKS MOCs. Mike doesn’t seem to have mentioned it here on
LUGNET, but I may be wrong. Though it’s not to scale with the LEGO ISD, it’s
still a cool representation.
Dave!
FUT OT.Clones
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