Could You Build a Scale Lego Model of the Death Star?

[AggieMike88]

I wonder if James May would take on this project?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/could-you-build-a-scale-lego-model-of-the-death-star/

This should be interesting for this crowd to answer:

Homework Questions
Here are some other questions that I didn’t get around to answering:

• If you wanted to build it in orbit, how much would it cost to get all the material up there?
• Suppose you can have as many people as you like working on the model; how long would it take to build?
• If the model were in orbit, would the gravitational force from the mass in the model be enough so you could walk on it?

 

[dmccormack]

No wonder higher education is so expensive....

 

[fgcason]

Do you have any idea how many boxes of lego's I've dropped or contraptions I smashed into component parts and scattered all over kingdom come while growing up?

Can you imagine the mess when the cargo container shipping them up comes open before the pieces are put together. A hundred trillion #8 lego's in random orbits. Pretty colors but oh the mess...

 

[steingar]

As in any modeling project, depends on the scale. Been done.

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

I get paid to play with Legos.

 

[rpadula]

Model? Pffft!

Now we're talkin':

http://www.centives.net/S/2012/how-much-would-it-cost-to-build-the-death-star/

 

[Art VanDelay]

Someone REALLY needs a girlfriend !