He or she must try to tag the kids, who are trying to jump from square to square, when they land in the hot zone. The kubbs are blocks 2.75 inches (7 centimeters) square and 6 inches (15.2 centimeters) tall. Perhaps not quite as practical are the fascinating nooks, crannies and cubbyholes, some of which are covered by curtains. It all depends how fussy you are about how the Earth looks afterwards, of course. Ceres, the solar system's largest asteroid, has less than 1/40,000th the mass of Earth; the Moon, a mere 1/80th. These objects are the heaviest you're likely to find - there are heavier moons and entire planets you could consider using, but to be honest from this point of view it looks more like using a succession of hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of smaller asteroid impacts would be a better bet. Since most gimbals are part of electronic systems, adding more complexity is not always the best choice.

However, it's much more likely that some of the Lannister kubbs will still be standing after the Starks run out of batons. The batons are distributed equally amongst team members, what is billiards so teams with a greater number of skilled throwers have a substantial advantage. Maybe you want to destroy it: a significant number of methods for destroying the Earth involve moving it by some substantial amount. However, some experts say that a googolplex is so large that the number of particles in the observable universe is only a tiny fraction of it. Solar sail method. I can't honestly add much to that article except to say that to move the Earth substantially, the sail used is going to have to be pretty big. Maybe the Sun is going Red Giant and you miss the days when lead didn't melt in direct sunlight. That's because engineers worried that they would miss their goal of landing a man on the moon before 1970 if they waited to perfect a four-gimbal system. In a perfect game, Team Stark would strike down each of the Lannister kubbs and still have one baton remaining, which it would then use to knock over the king and then end the game.

If you throw kubbs close to the centerline and then fail to overturn them, the other team suddenly has an opportunity to advance forward to a temporary baseline and knock down all of your kubbs from close proximity. If you play Ultima Online, a series of online role-playing games, then you may know Richard Garriott as Lord British. Richard Garriott is building a new home in Austin, so he may outdo Britannia Manor. Nothing earns a home the reputation of eccentricity quite like rumors that it's haunted. Or, alternately, you could dress the ladies like tramps and have an authentic frat-party. Without gimbals, it would have been very difficult for NASA to find a way to send the first astronauts up into space safely. But for the Apollo missions, NASA decided to go with a three-gimbal system. Drawbacks: as above, the momentum change you get is minuscule because you have to subtract off the 11km/s needed to launch the material upwards forever at all. Direct matter propulsion. Same method as above, just using gigantic mass drivers/railguns to fire huge quantities of matter away from Earth, instead of a rocket exhaust.

Getting everybody in the world to jump at the same time. Broderbund is responsible for games such as "Myst" and "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" and Carlston brought the same sense of whimsy and fantasy to designing his home. Throw in a charcoal grill and a cooler of icy drinks and suddenly lawn games become a foundation for a whole outdoors lifestyle. Google has offices in several countries, so not all of those employees get to take advantage of the Googleplex -- only 8,000 or so work out of Mountain View. By some accounts, the Google campus is what you'd get if you combined a typical high-tech Internet company's headquarters with an intellectual think tank and a heaping helping of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. In Mountain View, Calif., just a few miles south of the San Francisco Bay, there's a complex of buildings that serves as the headquarters for one of the most powerful companies in the technology industry. Better, you could use many, many asteroids one after the other in a steady stream, and cut down the total time significantly. Downforce is created by the air moving over the top of the car and pushing it down toward the track surface.