Rolls-Royce’s Latest Jet Engine is Made Out of Legos

http://defensetech.org/2012/07/10/rolls-royces-latest-jet-engine-is-made-out-of-legos/

by bcl • 14 years ago

31 23 14 years ago

I think the think that annoys me the most about American English is the use of the word Lego. Saying I have lots of Legos sounds as stupid as saying I have lots of Pokemons.

d4nt• 14 years ago

Well, I guess they do have an 's' left over from from their way of saying "Maths".

excuse-me• 14 years ago

Which they use to misspell defencetech

sageikosa• 14 years ago

When we dropped the "ematic" we decided to drop the "s" as well. I know, I was there when we voted. By the way "Z" is pronounced "Z" :-P

CrazedGeek• 14 years ago

Pokemon already stands for something plural though (Pocket Monsters). According to Wikipedia, LEGO's a shortening of "leg godt", meaning "play well", so it seems acceptable to make it plural. (Granted, I don't speak Danish, so maybe not?)

The proper name would be "LEGO Bricks", anyway.

anigbrowl3• 14 years ago

Lego also stands for something plural. That's how it has always been used, and hearing/reading it the other way is just as jarring as talk of sheeps or rices would be. Please stop.

biot• 14 years ago

Technically, it's LEGO brand building blocks. Now if you'll pardon me, I have some Pythons code to write.

JVIDEL• 14 years ago

It's pokemans, the Q is silent

Joke, about the lego engine what can I say? it's very cool but it pales in comparison to the bleak situation of engineers in other industries.

It's like the old man in Primer said: You know what they do with engineers when they turn forty? They take them out and shoot them.

HeyLaughingBoy• 14 years ago

So... I'm guessing that no one here is actually interested in the engine, just in being pedantic about localized usage of a word?

FWIW, my 11 year-old amazes me with his Lego/Legos/whatever constructions and I'm definitely going to show him this. Anything to offer more inspiration.

mibbitier3• 14 years ago

Lego is the best toy anyone can buy their kids. Seriously, forget about teaching them programming until later. Buy them lots of lego as soon as you can. It'll teach them maths, art, problem solving, engineering, following instructions, creativity etc etc.

The /lego and /afol subreddits are quite good.

user24• 14 years ago

I got really distracted by the edit at 0:44 where you can see the spiral skip.

But, on a more serious note, it's great to see companies encouraging the youth to get into science/tech/eng/math.

bjcy• 14 years ago

Wicked. A guy at my company made a large space shuttle[1] to demo the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT, and although not as impressive as the Trent 1000, it's still cool to see "toys" being used to get kids interested in STEM.

1: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-16534

Rolls-Royce’s Latest Jet Engine is Made Out of Legos

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