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Re: I could resist but I won't (was: Couldn't resist)
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Date: 
Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:15:11 GMT
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In lugnet.space, James Howse writes:
> > > In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes:
> > > >  Almost every builder has millions of attennas and tons of
> > > > bulky areas on these ships and none of these people realize that there is
> > > > friction in outer space
> 
> > (and if any of the many builders who have millions of attennas is about, I'd
> > like to know what attennas are, and whether you could spare a couple of
> > hundred thou - I've never encountered a Lego piece I couldn't use for
> > something...)
> 
> Oh good, that means I can call dibs on a ton of bulky areas, just as long as
> they're not glued together.
> 
> James (who is boggled at the thought of a tonne of LEGO bricks)

Being the geek I am I wondered how many 2x4s that would be. Not having any
to hand (or a scientific scale) I looked it up. It's amazing, everything
geeky I could think of asking has already been thought, asked and answered.

Anyway from http://news.lugnet.com/market/shipping/?n=362
a 1x8 weighs some 3.06g which means a (metric) tonne 1000kg is around
327,000 bricks.

Some more work with the calculator...
which is a block 160 studs long, 160 wide and 120 high
or 1.28m by 1.28m by 0.96m

or if built into a one thickness wall, 3.2m high, about 2.016m long.

or if laid end to end, 2.6km

James (who's going to do some real work now)



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  I could resist but I won't (was: Couldn't resist)
 
(...) You know, Like the one in some movie or other that nearly eats that spaceship after they've landed in a cave on an asteroid which isn't a cave but still has bat-things in it and an atmosphere of sorts and really squishy ground and when they (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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