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How many bricks from San Francisco to New York?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:47:32 GMT
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How many bricks would it take to make a continuous line of bricks (snapped
together) going all the way from San Francisco to New York? I calculate
about 200 million 2x4 bricks. I guess even if it were financially feasable,
it wouldn't be practical because of road crossings, but how did they do that
"hands across America" a few years back? Did they stop traffic?
Has anyone ever made a line of bricks going from one end of their house to
the other?
--Todd
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 | | Re: How many bricks from San Francisco to New York?
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| a little over 304 million, assuming that you are stacking 2 high to attach them, and the distance were 3000 miles. (12(inches) x 5280(feet) x 3000(miles) / 1.25(inches-length of 2x4 brick) x 2 (2 bricks high). As I am in the UK, how about a Lego (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: How many bricks from San Francisco to New York?
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| (...) personally, i've wondered how many monorail track segments it would take to get from san francisco to boston (and how many batteries!)...but i've never calculated. perhaps that's the difference between a todd-level lego-er and me? :) --nikky (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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