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Who among us hasn't stepped on enough Legos to last a lifetime? Oh well, let's have some more <3
by taraharris 3y ago
Who among us hasn't stepped on enough Legos to last a lifetime? Oh well, let's have some more <3
- minton 3y agoAs of July 2015, 600 billion Lego parts had been produced.[1] [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego
- blibble 3y agoI wonder how many cubic kilometers of plastic that is
- bombcar 3y ago400 Lego 2x4s makes a kilogram. So let’s say a cool billion kilograms.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoAnd since Lego essentially never is thrown away (except by spite or accident), that's more or less 1 megaton of carbon capture right there.
- InitialLastName 3y agoI don't think you get to count plastic you produce from extracted sources as carbon capture.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoAs long as you don't burn it, it's pre-emptive CCS. At least that's what I tell the investors.
- layer8 3y agoSignificantly less than one; probably just roughly a cubic hectometer at most. A cubic kilometer corresponds to about 1.6 x 10^15 1x1 Lego blocks, so over a quadrillion. 600 billion is only 0.6 x 10^12.
- fuzzfactor 3y agoThat's quite a few pieces for every man, woman, and child on the planet.
- bhaak 3y agoThat sounds like an organizational problem, not a problem with Lego bricks. You can never have enough Lego. :)
- mlyle 3y agoIt's not an organizational problem... it's a swoooosh-playing-with-my-lego-thing-oops-a-piece-shattered-off-and-I-can't-find-it problem. And then later, the lego piece waits for nightfall, and crawls out from the dark nook to the middle of the most inconvenient walkway for its moment to strike.
- doubled112 3y agoAll this time I thought that it was house hippos playing with the ones I dropped.
- systemtest 3y agoThat is why I always assemble my LEGO in a pressurised cleanroom.
- tenebrisalietum 3y agoI have stepped on 1 LEGO brick in my life, and it truly is enough for my lifetime.
- jll29 3y agoI first stepped on my own LEGO bricks (usually blue bricks that were part of some space station). Now, I equally proudly step on the bricks owned by my offspring. It's wonderful that some fascination transcends generations.
- Arrath 3y agoThanks to LEGO I learned that the callus on your ankle is layered like an onion. I had far too many LEGOs as a kid, and left them around my room like a minefield. Did I step on one? Oh, no. I was jumping on my bed and jumped off when told to stop by my parents and unfortunately one ankle landed on the corner of a LEGO building I had made. A structure build like a little plastic brick shithouse, apparently. The corner gouged a nice right angle cleft out of my ankle a couple inches long. Hurt like the dickens!
- rolph 3y agoif they are made large enough, one may reside whithin, and eliminate the discomfort of treading upon them.
- layer8 3y agoFakirs will love it.