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LEGO Competition Selects Three New Master Builders

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'm-a-master-model-builder dept.

H0NGK0NGPH00EY writes "The nationwide LEGO Master Builder search (covered here previously) came to a completion last week. At the last minute, LEGO surprised the competitors by announcing that they would select not one, but three Master Builders."

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  1. Does anyone know? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What is the largest cube that can be constructed out of Lego before it collapsed under its own weight?

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    1. Re:Does anyone know? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
      More importantly:
      Can God create a Lego Brick so large that He Himself can not build ith it?
      Yes. And he can build with it anyways.

      Logically impossible, true... but the concept of an absolutely omnipotent person is logically impossible as well.

      All disproofs of the existence of God cannot amount to anything more than a disproof of the existence of a god that is somehow limited by logic, and likewise all proofs of the existence cannot amount to anything more than a proof of the existence of a god that is _still_ limited by logic. If god exists and transcends logic, all rational proofs that he exists will be flawed on that basis, not on the basis that he doesn't exist. If he doesn't exist, rational proofs to that end are still flawed because they cannot take into account the possibility that god transcends logic. This argument does not pretend to offer evidence for the existence of god, only evidence that any arguments either for or against such a being's existence will always be rationally flawed. This argument need not apply to belief in other creatures such as santa claus, the easter bunny, or the tooth fairy simply because these creatures are not attributed with the characteristic of having created everything else. This plays a factor because if such a god exists, being attributed with the nature of having created everything else, including logic, then appearing to be transcendant to all human reasoning would be commensurate with the inability to establish any unflawed proofs regarding god's existence. Lesser creatures have never been attributed any claim to a position that has identical implications, and so lack the very basis for assuming that such a characteristic could apply to them.

      The bottom line is that there may be a god, but don't expect to be able to prove it, and there may not be a god, but don't expect a rational argument to that end to cover all possible cases.

  2. Real /. master builders... by G4from128k · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hacking your favorite computer into a Lego (TM) case, such as this Apple Powerbook should be the real test of a master builder.

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  3. Hard by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 2, Interesting

    THe idea of lego's is simple. Even building large, cool things, is easy on paper. I have to give it to these guys... after my "object" grows above about 1' in size, I have to use elmers glue to keep it from crumbling on me.

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  4. Re:Lego Girl? by dont_think_twice · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You mean this?