Da BBC sed:
It's not just children who like to build towers with Lego - 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's the answer? There has been a burning debate on the social news website Reddit. It's a trivial question you might think, but one the Open University's engineering department has - at the request of the BBC's More or Less programme - fired up its labs to try to answer.

"It's an exciting thing to do because it's an entirely new question and new questions are always interesting," says Dr Ian Johnston, an applied mathematician and lecturer in engineering.

Looking on the internet, he expected to find the answer, but was surprised to find only a lot of speculation.

Perhaps that's because not everyone who has pondered the question has ready access to a hydraulic testing machine.

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I just realised that there are no actual equations in that article. I apologise profusely.

Here is an equation, although the person who used it is probably not a scientist or rock star.

I kinda meant that there was no answer, and it wasn't for making a lego tower to the moon; it was to figure out how many lego pieces you needed to break the first piece.  

Yeah, it's one of those ridiculous articles about ridiculous things, and I admit that my thread title pushed the ridiculousness beyond nonsense into new territories of "OK man I think your skullmeat is past its sell-by date". Many of my posts seem to do that lately.