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\"\"<\/a>Here at BuzzBuzzHome, we’ve been known to celebrate our nerdiness. After all, we’re nerds in so many different fields. Real estate, statistics, architecture, advertising, this list goes on…<\/p>\n

But one field we don’t talk about too much is our hardcore nerdiness when it comes to Star Wars. Pretty much everyone has a soft spot for George Lucas’ classic space opera (unless you happen to be a Star Trek enthusiast) but we take our Han Solo, Boba Fett and Princess Leia pretty seriously around here.<\/p>\n

We don’t get to talk much about our obsession too often, seeing as there’s not a lot of land development in space. However, we just stumbled upon possibly the most relevant Star Wars related article of all time.<\/p>\n

The question: Could you build a scale lego model of the Death Star?<\/p>\n

The pop nerd publication Wired tackled the admittedly very intriguing question<\/a> in one of their science blogs. According to the article, the Death Star has a diameter of 160 kilometres. Pretty huge right? Using some super complex mathematical calculations, the writer determined that a to-scale lego model would be 3.52 kilometres in diameter (based on the average human height of 1.77 metres).<\/p>\n

Here’s a handy image of what this massive scale model would look like next to the world’s tallest buildings:<\/p>\n

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\nFor a little more perspective, here’s a very awesome photo of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa:<\/p>\n

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\nSo yea, you get the idea. This would be a very large scale model. Assuming average lego piece size, the writer estimates there would be 10 to the power of 14 pieces in the model (that’s 1 followed by 14 zeroes or one hundred trillion).<\/p>\n

Based on the average cost of a lego piece, the writer also estimates a model of this size would cost almost 10 trillion dollars. Not exactly something you’d be placing underneath the Christmas tree for your 9 year-old nephew…<\/p>\n

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