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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Lego Planet —Larry Pieniazek
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego Planet —Matthew Gerber
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| | | | | Yeah, stick with papier-mâché Earth...besides, you can just lure people there with free t-shirts! (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego Planet —Philip Taylor
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| | | | Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GCto7r.7HL@lugnet.com... (...) Current exchange rate is apparently 1 UKP = 3082 Italian Lira, so it'd be approximately 80 octillion Lira. And since 1 UKP = 1,636,200 Turkish Lira, (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego Planet —Philip Taylor
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| | | | | Excors <excors@zaynar.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:GCtqsC.F0s@lugnet.com... (...) Oops, small correction: I meant to say "it would cost almost a third of an octillion UKP" (or half a decillion Turkish Lira) :-) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego Planet —Gary E. Blessing
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| | | | Excors <excors@zaynar.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:GCtqsC.F0s@lugnet.com... (...) Turkish (...) Whats that in US Dollars? Gary Ps. You have a lot of time on your hands don't you? :-) (24 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego Planet —Philip Taylor
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| | | | blessing <blessing@icefog.net> wrote in message news:GCu7AG.5zF@lugnet.com... (...) be (...) Based on 1 UKP = 1.42 USD, it'd only be thirty-six septillion dollars. (...) Just wait until I start calculating the number of Lego bricks in a full-sized (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego Planet —Daniel Staudt
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| | | | some of you people scare me though a full size death star would be neat. would the laser work? (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.general)
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