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Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool
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Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:18:40 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dan Boger writes:
> In lugnet.general, Peter Langlois writes:
> > Well, according to my 1997 Star Wars "The Vehicles" Calendar the Death Star
> > is (was) 160 km in diameter. So using Mr. Eaton's convertor with one minifig
> > at six feet you get a diameter of 459317.59 studs!! (Actual scale size would
> > then be 2.28 miles (3.67 km)!!
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> heh, would that be enough mass to actually have it's own (significant)
> gravity? like a very small moon, or something?
I get (going by volume) approximately 22,029,937,442,631,307 2x4 bricks that
would fit, which of course isn't accounting for air pockets or anything.
Assuming that probably 3/4 of the Death Star is empty space, that's
[only!] 5,507,484,360,657,826 2x4 bricks (5.5 quadrillion).
Now, I couldn't find the mass of a 2x4 brick, but I found the mass of a 1x8
brick (1). And since I went by volume anyway, let's say it's about the same. A
1x8 weighs 3.06061g. So the Death Star's about 16,856,261,709,072 kg. (2)
The Earth is about 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000,000kg, and the moon is about
73,490,000,000,000,000,000,000kg (3). So we're talking 0.00000002313% of the
moon's mass-- so, no, not really too much gravity-wise. Probably not even
enough to be comparable to the moon's gravity with respect to minifigs... Oh
well. But it might be darned near close to the heaviest thing ever built by
people-- maybe. I dunno about the pyramids-- they were pretty solid and also
huge... but I don't feel quite geeky enough at the moment to check that factoid
out :)
DaveE
(1) Chris Tracey - http://news.lugnet.com/market/shipping/?n=362
(2) Note: I think figures given are for the completed Death Star II. Death Star
I was smaller, IIRC.
(3) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html
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