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This seems to simulate the pressure due to the weight of the bricks, but I wonder how much the height comes down by if you factor in the extra pressure you have to put on the top brick to get it to clip on. Does this add non-negligibly to the pressure on the bottom brick, or is it almost nothing once dispersed through the whole tower? (You may be able to tell that I have very little knowledge of the physical sciences…
This seems to simulate the pressure due to the weight of the bricks, but I wonder how much the height comes down by if you factor in the extra pressure you have to put on the top brick to get it to clip on. Does this add non-negligibly to the pressure on the bottom brick, or is it almost nothing once dispersed through the whole tower? (You may be able to tell that I have very little knowledge of the physical sciences…
Is anyone else excited by the fact that your average Lego brick can easily hold a human's weight? So if you built things out of LEGO you could, at least in theory, stand on them.
Is anyone else excited by the fact that your average Lego brick can easily hold a human's weight? So if you built things out of LEGO you could, at least in theory, stand on them.
Is anyone else excited by the fact that your average Lego brick can easily hold a human's weight? So if you built things out of LEGO you could, at least in theory, stand on them.
I'm a little confused. That's the weight that a single Lego brick can withstand, correct? So assuming you made a "tower" that was essentially a vertical line of 2x2 Lego bricks, it'd collapse after 3,591m. But that's not how we build towers. If you create a proper foundation with Lego bricks and distribute the weight evenly across them, and taper the tower as it goes up, am I wrong in assuming it could go a lot more…
For another example, one could try to create an inverted pyramid on one brick to crush it, but it will topple long before it crushes the brick.
The structural strength under that circumstance (pure Lego, nothing else) is so enormously high, as determined by this experiment, that there's no reason to ever worry about this eventuality.
Those resources could have been spent in something more useful.
Fun science stuff like this can get people who aren't normally into science interested in it, including children. There's definitely value in that.