The Week In Numbers: The World's Largest Lego Model, Viagra For Women, And More
Lego's life-size X-wing fighter Dan Bracaglia 5.3 million: the number of Lego bricks used to build the world's largest Lego model, a life-size X-wing fighter complete with Lego Luke Skywalker 40,000: the planned population for Masdar City, a solar-powered eco-metropolis in the middle of the Arabian desert and the world's most ambitious eco-city 15 days: the time it took the journal Cell to accept and publish last week's study on the first cloned human embryo. An anonymous online commenter has now pointed out four potential errors in the paper. 20,000 feet: the height of the ash plume created by the recent eruption of Alaska's Pavlof volcano 2016: the year a "female Viagra," called Lybrido, could hit the market in the U.S. $390: the price to book a room in Barcelona's futuristic space hotel, which sits atop an artificial island and features a zero-gravity spa, a vertical wind tunnel, and a marina for...