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Re: How many bricks from San Francisco to New York?
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Date: 
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:29:31 GMT
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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?

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



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  Re: How many bricks from San Francisco to New York?
 
(...) 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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  How many bricks from San Francisco to New York?
 
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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