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I think I've discovered another law of physics! Have you ever noticed that a piece of falling Lego will always end up in the most difficult spot to see and/or reach!! I firmly believe that we are dealing with some sort of artificial intelligence (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) This is a well-established Law of Murphy, but it still never fails to annoy me. I build most of my smaller sets on my desk, and invariably I'll drop a piece or two during construction, only to have it skitter to the joint of the wall and floor (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I think they're likely in cahoots with Wham-O whose Frisbees have long been seeking the underside of autos for years. -Steven (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) of (...) then (...) bounce (...) It's just the Lego Variation on Murphy's Law. Well-documented. :-) Bruce (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I definitely have to agree with this. I usually do my building at a desk or table and my bricks decide to fall just underneath the center of the chair. That one spot that you (or I, at least) can't reach without either getting out of your (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Not to mention the rooves of buildings. ;) Jeff (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not to mention the roofs...<runnning> >;-) -John (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) how (...) I suspect that there is a place between the floor of my apartment and the ceiling of the apartment below, where errant LEGO, cigarette lighters, paperclips, computer case screws and jumper shunts congregate to have parties and laugh (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) A corollary: any piece falling off of a model will fall into the model where it is impossible to reach without disassembling at least half of the constrution. Shaking the model in an attempt to remove the lost piece will result in the piece (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I've been wondering the same thing! But it only works when you don't see where the falling piece landed. I've often dropped a fairly large piece (sometimes a whole minifig or something) from my desk when "creating", and spent up to twenty minutes (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) of (...) then (...) bounce (...) I believe there is another related force involved here. Have you noticed that if you "create" from the spill method on a large floor of any type that gravity seems to cluster bricks together. As you sift, (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) of (...) then (...) bounce (...) I believe there is another related force involved here. Have you noticed that if you "create" from the spill method on a large floor of any type that gravity seems to cluster bricks together. As you sift, (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Aaron West writes: **snip** (...) Preach it, brother! This has driven me crazy for decades! A further, minor corrolary is that the initially-sought piece will become visible again, often in large numbers, once an inferior or less (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: The Law of Falling Lego
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(...) for (...) The stated above is *exactly* why I (used to) build in a room with a marble- like tiled floor that is (other than bricks) totally empty, with all the pieces sorted into little yogurt cans (washed of course ;-) But this was an attic (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Spelling (Re: The Law of Falling Lego)
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(...) hoof -> hooves roof -> rooves (???) OR roof -> roofs hoof -> hoofs (???) Ahhhhhh..... That's english for ya' :) -David (24 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) But it *can* be spelled hoofs, as in "huffs" or "hoooffs". In fact I've seen it spelled that way more often than the other way. But I don't like it when people say "ruffs". -- Ian (Incidentally, does anyone here say "tomahto"?) :P (24 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) FTR, I made a mistake. I checked the dictionary, and rooves is not a plural form of roof. :) Ahhh... I love English. ;) Jeff (24 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I must add yet another corrolary that I discovered... I felt it appropriate enough to hunt this thread up for it... :-) Any piece that is completly unwanted will appear in the largest quantities possible, in a very ubiquitous manner. Once you (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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One more collary to add to this thread: If a piece of Lego has a sharp point on it and falls to the ground, the point will always be facing up. This piece can only be located by stepping on it with bare feet. :-) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) with (...) And after the initial shock of the impaled foot is felt, you are unconciously driven to lift your foot off the ground very abruptly, placing yourself in the least stable standing position possible. Then after trying in vain to grab (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Or, if you're *really* lucky, you don't fall, but manage to jump to a different location - which of course also has a few sharp pieces... Having wall-to-wall carpeting never helps, somehow... -Shiri (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Very nice observation, Bill! Although I'm afraid I don't know enough about artificial intelligence or the paranormal to offer any hypotheses of any value, this is a very close relative of a theory that I've held for years: After a dropped Lego (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) On what surface? Linoleum? Hardwood? Carpet? (What kind of carpet?) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hehe... it doesn't matter :-) -Shiri (yes, I know that's not physics-wise possible... but we already agreed that lego bricks don't obey the physics rules! :-) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) placing (...) trying in >vain to grab hold of something, you fall over, either onto... 3) the tub that >the rest of your Lego is in, splitting the tub open and causing the contents >to spill out everywhere. The last one has actually happened (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sounds like what happens to me. End up catapulting a monorail sized box full of pieces at me showering not only myself but the rest of my sorted boxes with miscellanious pieces. Quite exciting. Kya (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I can relate to Brams last comment about pieces falling into the wrong boxes--this has happened to me more than a few times. As for the problem of dropping/falling Lego, this does not trouble me much at all. Since the day Lego was brought into (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This is one advantage of my system where most parts are in resealable bags (such as ZipLoc). Of course it adds a new way for Murphy to strike - you pick up an unsealed bag by the bottom... (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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This is perhaps my biggest problem whenever I'm trying to rebuild an old set. The piece I need is ALWAYS in the one box that has been buried under all the other boxes. Dave Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Indeed. Or when you have your little Plano tackle boxes, filled with parts, turn around in your chair, your arm hits an object, and you have a MIRV type LEGO dispearsal all over the place. : ) Here is a container: (URL) when you grab a (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ...Or alternately: "A 1x1 trans-* piece that falls on the floor can only be found by the vacuum cleaner"... this after my daughter tipped over my 1x1 trans dot box :-/ ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wamalug (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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Here's a more accurate calculation (deals with different surfaces): L = (H(R/50)+B)/S Set H to the height of the table, B to the number of studs of the brick, R to the radius you get with (H*6) and finally, S to the "bounciness" of the surface. A (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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