Apple Jacks ---> Taj Mahal?

[Sam172]

Considering Apple Jacks are about 1.5 x 2.5 cm, and are solid enough to lick...then stick together to form a structure...

If I had 500 million of them, would it be enough to make an exact size model of the Taj Mahal?
I'm not sure of it's dimensions...so they could be helpful too....

Kinda hard to figure out those tower bits too...


This question has been bugging me for a while.

[brachiopod]

What are Apple Jacks? Can you give us a description?

We will need to know the loadbearing / deformation characteristics first in order to ascertain if you could build a life-sized model of the Tal Mahal.

Since Apple Jacks sound like a sweet (or somesuch edible morcel) - it's more than likely you will only manage to build your structure up to a certain height, whereupon the load on the lower Applejacks (caused by the weight of those above it) will exceed their loadbearing limit, causing (most likely) plastic deformation. (ie they will 'squash').

[magicdice]

also the taj mahal would be really difficult to build - you'd have to make sure the towers were leaning out at the right angle, and how would you ever be able to buy all the precious & semi-precious stones to encrust into it?

sounds like a terrible waste of apple jacks. good fun though. this site may help with the architectural side of it... let us know how it goes!

[Sam172]

Well, applejacks (though I havn't been able to get a picture of them) are like Fruit Salads

http://www.thewelshsweetshop.co.uk/acatalog/FruitSalad1. jpg

The are relatively hard until sucked / chewed repeatedly in the house.
I'm not actually going to make a model of the Taj Mahal...


It's just that whenever I see something expensive I see I say : "Whoa, you could by 'x' number of applejacks with that and make a scale model of the Taj Mahal....then charge people to see it"

Yes...I really do say that �_�

It would be possible to lick the sweets / chew them into a sort of harder cheing gum - type consistency....then wait for them to dry rock hard. Therefore reinforcing the walls...etc.

[brachiopod]

They won't be rock hard though - that's the point, I'm afraid. Imagine an applejack of say 1cm x 1cm x 40 cm, you have chewed it and it has set. You nail 2cm of one end to a shelf and allow the other 38 cm to extend over the edge. Because it is a plastic material, it will start to deform and will bend under it's own weight within a day or two.

A piece of marble, (the material used in the Taj Mahal), of the same dimensions would not do this (at least not for a few million years)