{"id":12030,"date":"2015-03-02T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=12030"},"modified":"2015-03-02T17:43:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:43:23","slug":"how-tall-can-a-lego-tower-be-before-it-crushes-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2015\/03\/02\/how-tall-can-a-lego-tower-be-before-it-crushes-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tall Can a Lego Tower Be Before It Crushes Itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INSTRUMENTAL<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Enlarged-To-Show-Texture\/DR0000_0739-How-Tall-Can-a-Lego-Tower-Be-Before-It-Crushes-Itself.mp3\">How Tall Can a Lego Tower Be Before It Crushes Itself? .mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nC Dm Eb<br \/>\nC Cm<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by a news story. The BBC reported, &#8220;It&#8217;s not just children who like to build towers with Lego &#8211; the internet is alive with discussion on how many Lego bricks, stacked one on top of the other, it would take to destroy the bottom brick. So what&#8217;s the answer? &#8221; The article goes on to say, &#8220;Safety glasses on, the engineers begin to nervously edge towards the door.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re setting it up automatically, so that we can all back out of the room, so none of us is in range when the thing goes bang,&#8221; Johnston explains &#8211; positioned, I notice, slightly behind me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The force climbs on, above 4,000N. And then&#8230; Nothing. Well, not much. There is no big bang. The brick just kind of melts. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So &#8211; how many Lego bricks, stacked one on top of the other, would it take to destroy the bottom brick?<br \/>\n375,000 bricks towering 3.5km (2.17 miles) high is what it would take to break a Lego brick.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s taller than the highest mountain in Spain. It&#8217;s significantly higher than Mount Olympus [tallest mountain in Greece]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But could a 3.5km Lego tower really be built?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There isn&#8217;t a chance you could do it in reality,&#8221; Johnston says. &#8220;Long before the brick fails, the tower would fail as a structure itself, by buckling.<\/p>\n<p>Real life can be so disappointing sometimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel &#8212; Keyboards, Synthesizers, Controllers and a Computer<\/p>\n<p>From the album <a href=\"http:\/\/camelot.kingarthur.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Enlarged-To-Show-Texture\/\"><strong><em>Enlarged To Show Texture<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby <a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/\">Daniel Brouse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INSTRUMENTAL How Tall Can a Lego Tower Be Before It Crushes Itself? .mp3 ABOUT THE SONG C Dm Eb C Cm Inspired by a news story. The BBC reported, &#8220;It&#8217;s not just children who like to build towers with Lego &#8211; the internet is alive with discussion on how many Lego bricks, stacked one on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[198,3051,269,312,458,487,541,556,578,613,2259,1281,998,781,782,2260],"class_list":["post-12030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-daniel","tag-daniel-brouse","tag-enlarged-to-show-texture","tag-experimental","tag-free","tag-keyboards","tag-live","tag-mp3-downloads","tag-music","tag-new","tag-original","tag-philadelphia-psychedelia","tag-progressive-rock","tag-psychedelic","tag-songs","tag-songwriter","tag-synthesizers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12030"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12040,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions\/12040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}