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    Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool —Geoffrey Hyde
   All I need to know now, is approximately how big a diameter a Death Star has. <g> There'd have to be some compression of scale of a model that big, but I suppose something suitably spherical and not too cramped-looking could be figured out. :-) I (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool —Peter Langlois
   (...) Geoff, Well, according to my 1997 Star Wars "The Vehicles" Calendar the Death Star is (was) 160 km in diameter. So using Mr. Eaton's convertor with one minifig at six feet you get a diameter of 459317.59 studs!! (Actual scale size would then (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool —Dan Boger
   (...) heh, would that be enough mass to actually have it's own (significant) gravity? like a very small moon, or something? :) XFUT lugnet.off-topic.geek (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool —David Eaton
     (...) I get (going by volume) approximately 22,029,937,442,631,307 2x4 bricks that would fit, which of course isn't accounting for air pockets or anything. Assuming that probably 3/4 of the Death Star is empty space, that's [only!] (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool —Christopher Tracey
     (...) weigh a bunch of stuff tomorrow night anyway, I bring a 2x4 brick along. -c (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool —Christopher Tracey
   (...) "looks like he's heading for that small moon" .....[snip some dialogue] "that's no moon... it's a space station (made out of a quadzillion lego bricks)." -c (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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