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Re: How many bricks from San Francisco to New York?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:55:45 GMT
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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 Pontoon across the Atlantic? Boston
to some point of landfall.......
Is visi.com no longer a valid e-mail address?
Todd Lehman wrote in message <36512972.27938820@lugnet.com>...
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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?
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> Has anyone ever made a line of bricks going from one end of their house to
> the other?
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> --Todd
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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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