Look at this monster!!!!!!

[Inspector Jihad]

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[BrokenVisage]

seen it in flash, seen it in a powerpoint, seen it in chain mail... but hey, it's cool to look at even for the 100th time

 

[Squisher]

That thing looks big enough to have a cafeteria in it.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
seen it in flash, seen it in a powerpoint, seen it in chain mail... but hey, it's cool to look at even for the 100th time

 

[BoomerD]

I worked a large dragline in Wyoming that was (at the time) the world's 2nd largest. From where it started scooping up material, to where it dumped it, was over 1/8 mile...in one pass...and the bucket held something like 75 cu. yds of coal. Only a bit smaller than this one:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/OHCUMmuskie.html

IIRC, if they develop an oil leak, they don't stop to fix it until it exceeds 100 gallons/hour...

 

[Midlander]

Originally posted by: Squisher
That thing looks big enough to have a cafeteria in it.

They could serve road kill.

 

[T9D]

Saw that on a Discovery channel show. Thing is insane.

 

[Maximilian]

That is the most awsome thing ive ever seen!! WOW!! It ate a bulldozer... SWEET!

 

[Hyperlite]

anyone know where it is now? could we find it in google earth or something?

 

[ForumMaster]

kind of old. cool none-the less. i wonder how much fuel it consumes!

 

[Dean]

It looks like one of them Jagged Metal Crusty O's

 

[Cuhulainn]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
seen it in flash, seen it in a powerpoint, seen it in chain mail... but hey, it's cool to look at even for the 100th time

Don't worry, it seems that no matter what you find, there will be someone who has seen it a million times before. Doesn't mean the rest of us don't appreciate it! :thumbsup:

 

[Nyati13]

Originally posted by: Soviet
That is the most awsome thing ive ever seen!! WOW!! It ate a bulldozer... SWEET!

It ate a D8 no less, which is like the 3rd or 4th biggest bulldozer in the world.

 

[zoiks]

That thing was on the 'Mega Machines' documentary on the Discovery Channel.
The amazing thing was when they needed to move the sucker to another mine 40 miles away. They actually drove the thing through fields and roads and under bridges all the way to the other site.

 

[eits]

omg that thing's frigging huge

 

[BMdoobieW]

very nice. thanks.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: Cuhulainn

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
seen it in flash, seen it in a powerpoint, seen it in chain mail... but hey, it's cool to look at even for the 100th time

Don't worry, it seems that no matter what you find, there will be someone who has seen it a million times before. Doesn't mean the rest of us don't appreciate it! :thumbsup:

I didn't say I didn't appreciate it, in fact I haven't seen a compilation with as many pictures of it as this one has, but it's still been posted lots of times before in different collections.

 

[fustercluck]

Yeah I've seen it before, still cool though. I don't quite get what the map is showing (from the link in the OP), it's like a big circle with smaller circles around it? I don't understand what that's showing. Unless there are more than one of those machines

 

[50cent1228]

Originally posted by: eits
omg that thing's frigging huge

 

[SWScorch]

Originally posted by: Adaman
Yeah I've seen it before, still cool though. I don't quite get what the map is showing (from the link in the OP), it's like a big circle with smaller circles around it? I don't understand what that's showing. Unless there are more than one of those machines

I think the red circle is illustrating where a particle accelerator is located beneath the surface. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: Adaman
Yeah I've seen it before, still cool though. I don't quite get what the map is showing (from the link in the OP), it's like a big circle with smaller circles around it? I don't understand what that's showing. Unless there are more than one of those machines

Its a PARTICLE COLLIDER/accelerator for science experiments, basically there are tubes underground and particles fly in a huge circle (like 20 miles) and then scientists try to zap them/stop them and other freaky things

 

[GTaudiophile]

ze germans know how to build sh!t...especially mechanical sh!t...

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: tk109
Saw that on a Discovery channel show. Thing is insane.

yeah seen on a show on earth movers. the thing is huge!

 

[fustercluck]

Originally posted by: lyssword

Originally posted by: Adaman
Yeah I've seen it before, still cool though. I don't quite get what the map is showing (from the link in the OP), it's like a big circle with smaller circles around it? I don't understand what that's showing. Unless there are more than one of those machines

Its a PARTICLE COLLIDER/accelerator for science experiments, basically there are tubes underground and particles fly in a huge circle (like 20 miles) and then scientists try to zap them/stop them and other freaky things

Well...I still don't get it, but it sounds boring . Thanks for explaining though (both).

 

[SonnyDaze]

It's a Ditch Witch on steroids...lots of them!!