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Re: How many bricks from San Francisco to New York?
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Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:41:52 GMT
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Nicole Dente <nicole@heron.mv.com> writes:

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? :)

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 somewhere around 20 million straight-track segments.  Give or
take a couple million for going over/around mountains.  :)

Now if the monorail cars travel at a velocity of about (this is just an
estimate from memory) 20 studs per second, then it would take about 30
million seconds, or about 1 year.

Hmm, how many changes of batteries is that?  ug...

--Todd



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  Re: How many bricks 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 (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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