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Seems reasonable to me. Let’s start building.
by Ringz 3y ago
Seems reasonable to me. Let’s start building.
- dhosek 3y agoThe problem is that according to Science™ (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20578627 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20578627) with a tower of 2.17miles you start to get materials failure on the bricks. You might be able to engineer around this, but I suspect that the minifig-scale deathstar would cause the bottom bricks to melt. Bummer.
- whythre 3y agoMaybe in this hypothetical we could reduce weight by making it the 2nd Death Star? A lot of that was skeletal superstructure.
- Uvix 3y agoThe second Death Star was also about 33% bigger in diameter, though.
- thrtythreeforty 3y agoThat's true if you build the station on the planet, but I think the station is designed to be constructed in orbit in the first place. Its self-gravity should be negligible. Problem solved!
- thesnide 3y agoThat's no moon...
- Ringz 3y agoThat’s your mother!
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoI think we can get support for a 2 mile large Lego Death Star hauled up by NASA and assembled in orbit - write your congressman now !
- cookie_monsta 3y agoWe just need 10k votes, right? Or is there more to it than that?
- thrtythreeforty 3y agoIf I do my math correctly, the mass of the structure should be dominated by the surface, if it is constructed mostly hollow. There will be plenty of room to add individual rooms to play with inside. The mass of the LEGO would be on the order of 113 tons assuming you build the surface out of 8x16 base plates. This is comfortably within range of a single Starship payload. It is much tougher to say how long LEGO would take to manufacture them, but I think it is safe to say that they could spin up additional manufacturing capacity for such an important national project. It should pay for itself - you'd have a very long line of LEGO nerds buying tickets to help assemble it.
- thrtythreeforty 3y agoWhoops, dropped some zeroes. It'd be on the order of 800-900 launches.
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoeven so we should do it ! :-)
- mcv 3y agoI'm really starting to run out of space in my home for these big Lego sets.
- monknomo 3y agoa 2 mile deathstar gives you the chance to flip this around - get space for your home in a big lego set
- cookie_monsta 3y agoAnd at some point you're going to be standing there trying to figure out if it still brings you Joy