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Re: How many bricks from San Francisco to New York?
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Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:35:07 GMT
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Todd,

You have too much time on your hands, get back to Auc7 packing.

<duck>

;-)


Todd Lehman wrote:

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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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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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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