{"id":7033,"date":"2012-12-04T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2012-12-04T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:01:00","slug":"the-tallest-lego-tower-imaginable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-tallest-lego-tower-imaginable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tallest Lego Tower Imaginable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/120412_1219_TheTallestL1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all wondered it at one point in our lives. How tall could our Lego tower become? Ruth Alexander answered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Materials testing shows that Lego bricks can take more than 400kg of weight before they collapse.<\/li>\n<li>This means that a single Lego brick at the bottom of a tower could withstand the weight of 375,000 Lego bricks on top of it.<\/li>\n<li>This would mean that the tallest tower theoretically possible is 3.5 km \u2013 taller than most European mountains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the feasibility of building such a tower, a behind the scenes look at the Lego stress test \u2013 and its aftermath \u2013 as well as the current world record holder for tallest Lego tower over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20578627\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20578627\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all wondered it at one point in our lives. How tall could our Lego tower become? Ruth Alexander answered: Materials testing shows that Lego bricks can take more than 400kg of weight before they collapse. This means that a single Lego brick at the bottom of a tower could withstand the weight of 375,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/120412_1219_TheTallestL1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7040,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions\/7040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}