time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 3 days agoWorld’s tallest lego structure ever, standing tall at 36 metres.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down111
arrow-up1175arrow-down1imageWorld’s tallest lego structure ever, standing tall at 36 metres.lemmy.worldtime2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square27linkfedilink
minus-squareBananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoHow tall can a lego structure get before the base bricks fail?
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-23 days agothe corridor crew has a video on this and they mention the hydraulic press experiment @9:40 and added some cool visuals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68oXafUzirE spoiler ~375’000 bricks ~ 3.6km And in the end, they show a pyramid around that height (4x higher than Burj Khalifa, just smaller than the mount Fuji) and how much it would cost, which is completely unrealistic at that point, as it’d use up all the oil in the world.
minus-squareDavel23@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoI don’t have numbers for you, but here’s some Lego vs. a hydraulic press and it survives pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l10hJxV4SGo
minus-squarePhobosAnomaly@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoAt least as tall as a traffic cone I’d say.
minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoWell they’re on a wide base to distribute load among many bricks. Do this enough and the only limit is bricks melting under the heat of the pressure.
How tall can a lego structure get before the base bricks fail?
the corridor crew has a video on this and they mention the hydraulic press experiment @9:40 and added some cool visuals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68oXafUzirE
spoiler
~375’000 bricks ~ 3.6km
And in the end, they show a pyramid around that height (4x higher than Burj Khalifa, just smaller than the mount Fuji) and how much it would cost, which is completely unrealistic at that point, as it’d use up all the oil in the world.
I don’t have numbers for you, but here’s some Lego vs. a hydraulic press and it survives pretty well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l10hJxV4SGo
At least as tall as a traffic cone I’d say.
Well they’re on a wide base to distribute load among many bricks.
Do this enough and the only limit is bricks melting under the heat of the pressure.