that is one SERIOUS digging machine

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I saw this thing on the Discovery channel (or somesuchrot) on Modern Marvels(?). It chews up oil/coal enriched dirt and (not counting things like the Saturn 5 or the www as "machines") is the "world's biggest machine". Compare the scale of the Saturn 5/Space shuttle "Crawler" thing

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man, the jawas are gonna be pissed when they find out someone stole the frame to their ride.

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It seems to be Finnish.

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how does that differ from moon-man language?

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Oh, it's all good until the disgruntled operator locks himself in the thing and goes on a rampage!

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Yes. Why do you think jwz wants it?

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I've had this jpg of a somewhat smaller scale... this thing... for a while. In patrol mode.

I don't remember where it is from, and I still don't know what they're for. I think I saw one in "The Lorax".

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...and in a parallel universe, Survival Research Labs gets all the funding they will ever need. Meanwhile, the U.S. Government digs in the couch cushions for spare change.

A.

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And Enron execs hold a bake sale to pay back all the shareholders they fucked.

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In his native tongue, his name means "Devatator."

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Mount it to the top of DNA and program it to go after taggers and frat boys.

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mount the DNA lounge on top of it and wage a huge path of destruction through San Francisco!

What it might look like

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Sweet jumping Primus, it's like Omega Supreme's angry brother!

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The bad news is that it transforms into a giant robot, and for some reason can only be piloted by teenage girls.

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Time to set up machine: 14 weeks

Time to dig hole: six seconds.

EFFICIENCY!

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My guess is that it's a rotary cultivator, and the Finns intend to plant seeds the size of volkswagens in order to grow a beanstalk to the moon. Then they'll win that space elevator prize for sure!

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It warms my little heart that things like that can even be made.

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I had heard that Skinny Puppy was putting more funding into the visuals in this tour, but I had no idea.

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ROFL!!!

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Alas, I am informed through various and disreputable sources that the device pictured above is a bucket-wheel coal excavator.

Perhaps it'll degenerate into another "Tremors" movie.

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I, for one, welcome our super-sized-death-machine masters.

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You can have a LEGO version
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Ok, that rules.

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nice- i saw the discovery thing a while back too-

i dont recall it being coal-exclusive, but its a big mining thing-
it pretty much does what it look like it does- chews through stuff with the rotating cups- and i remember it being disturbingly agile for how big it is (the blade part, not the moving-on-the-ground part)

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Throwing it through a translator yielded this:

Motif bishop sundry diagram and link. Here is gadget , jolly attain Turku eventually removable Suomesta:

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Which says a lot about online translation programs. Or about the Finnish. Or indeed about our robot masters.

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How you say? "Groovy?"

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Just go and buy one:

http://www.krupp-foerdertechnik.com/F/mining/subs/OPMiningB.htm

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It's a brown coal mining machine. Maybe they should be called "harvesters". I've seen two of them in reality during a school excursion years ago — I live in the Ruhrgebiet.

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BIIIIIIIIG DIIIIIGGGGEEEERRRRRR

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More here and here and here and here...

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This sucker screams "The Earth is my Bitch!"

Sure wish it fit in Master Fry's replicator... damn, I want my own.

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How often (and how far) do they move one of these things? Makes a guy wonder how they get it past the power lines you can see in the distance.

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one such pretty for each side of the powerlines, i suppose :)

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