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World’s tallest lego structure ever, standing tall at 36 metres. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 28 points 2 months ago (1 child)

when a lego project calls for a civil engineer

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    • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Damn, and I thought I was doing well building from the floor to the ceiling. Mine was freestanding though, it didn't need cranes to hold it up.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    The cranes aren’t holding it up the cable stays are keeping it from falling over.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Sorry you're right, it's not cranes and they aren't holding it up just keeping it steady. But my tower didn't need that, I built it strong enough it could atand of it's own accord.

    Only to the ceiling, mind you. I don't have enough lego to go up 36 metres.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Theirs is strong enough to stand it’s just not stable enough to.

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    • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Doesn’t count unless those are Lego brand guide wires.

    (Although I’d let it slide if they were Mega Bloks wires)

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    • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    How tall can a lego structure get before the base bricks fail?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago*

    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.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Incoming sibling to wreck that tower

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    At first I thought the base of it was blurred out for some reason lol!

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yea! Plastic!

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    • [+] -8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Slop shit

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Nope, Omer Tower in Tel Aviv. https://www.reuters.com/article/world/tel-aviv-attempts-plastic-brick-record-with-36-metre-tower-idUSKBN1EM0OB/

    It took barely any time to search by image and find it.

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