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Re: Lego Planet
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 4 May 2001 17:50:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Philip Taylor writes:
> 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...
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 about, but not quite, fill Lake Tahoe(1). That is
a very very small fraction of the earth's volume. Even taking the density
difference into account, we don't have the oil. So some sort of
transmutation will be needed to generate the feedstock to make all that ABS!!!
1 - Fortunately no one has tried this, Lake Tahoe is reputed to be quite
pretty, and I suspect it would not look nearly as nice with oil instead of
water.
++Lar
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Lego Planet
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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)
| | | Re: Lego Planet
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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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| 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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