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Re: Lego Death Star
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lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Fri, 26 May 2000 12:17:26 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Chris Norman writes:
I suggest we give bonus point to the person that figures out how many 2x4
bricks, laid, end to end, it would take to stretch 5 miles.

Well, let's see... that'd be about 491,490 studs, which is about 122,873 2x4
bricks laid end to end (+/- a few, cuz at that level, even lego's tolerances
will be off by a bit)

But by my calculations, a minifig scale death star would only be a bit under
2.3 miles (only 56,438 2x4's laid end to end)

Can I trade in my bonus points for the giant stuffed Death Star?

DaveE



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  Re: Lego Death Star
 
(...) Well first, Which Death Star? The first which is 160km in diameter or the second which is roughly 500km in diameter. (I know half of the 'offical' sources state the 1st as being 120km and the second as 160km but those were arbitrary numbers (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Lego Death Star
 
Naw... I think IG-88 would look something more like __ | | |::| | p| | | __ or something like that... I am not a master at ASCII art. I suggest we give bonus point to the person that figures out how many 2x4 bricks, laid, end to end, it would take (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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