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Lego Planet
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 4 May 2001 17:38:48 GMT
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I was interested in what would happen if somebody tried to make a full-sized
replica of Earth from a solid sphere of 2x4 Lego bricks.
My findings were that it would take approximately 2.5x10^26 (a quarter of an
octillion) bricks, costing about twenty-five septillion UKP to purchase from
Lego S@H. It would have a mass of over 5x10^23kg (five hundred quintillion
tons), and have a surface gravity 9.2% of the gravity on Earth...
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| (...) Note that this cost of 25 septillion UKP (what is that in Italian Lira? :-) )discounts the R&D cost for a practical transmutation device. I read a factoid somewhere that all the petroleum we have so far extracted from the earth would just (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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