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Todd, You have too much time on your hands, get back to Auc7 packing. <duck> ;-) (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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Tom Stangl, VFAQman wrote in message <3651272B.7596E868@vfaq.com>... (...) Any ETA on that? They never did get enough people for Hands Across America. They had to fly helicopters over large chunks of Nevada and other hot dry nasty states to (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, you know, I typed that while eating a sandwich. And while it's generally safe to bring food near the keyboard, we have strict no-food rules about handling the LEGO we ship out. We even scrub our hands after handling any rubber LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Food Service disposable plastic gloves. Would make small-part handling a challenge. But that's what pharmacist pill-sorting boards are for. Steve (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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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)
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(...) Does that include going over hills/mountains and into valleys? The Rocky mountains would be quite an obstacle to build over! :) --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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Bram Lambrecht wrote in message <19981117.170117.509...no.com>... (...) A cross-country drive is roughly 3000 miles (it was about 3050 from Charlotte, NC to Seattle, WA when my girlfriend and I moved to the Seattle area) and goes over the mountains, (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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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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(...) Ooh -- that'd be even cooler! And then how much time would it take for a monorail car to get from one coast to the other? I don't know how fast the cars go but the straight track segments are 32 studs long, so...hmm...that works out to (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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I was operating under the assumption that it were over a completely flat plane... Alex Wetmore wrote in message <911345361.517138@phred>... (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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