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Offline mergatroidalTopic starter

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Not a robot, ...
« on: January 13, 2009, 03:42:16 PM »
.... but if you're a fan of The Machine, take a gander at this.  :o
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Re: Not a robot, ...
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2009, 01:59:24 AM »
nice, bet it took a long time to build that.    :D
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Re: Not a robot, ...
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2009, 06:43:48 PM »
Do they have a video of it working?

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Re: Not a robot, ...
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2009, 07:11:00 PM »
I have one of those in my garage. Not very good with gas milage but sure does help when I need to get a little gardening done! :P

I saw a discovery documentary thing on these beasts. Theyre pretty insane.

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Re: Not a robot, ...
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2009, 08:11:21 PM »
YouTube, indeed! Thanks, HDL_CinC_Dragon. The 3:57 "The Massive Bucket Wheel Excavator" will be on my YT channel Favorites.  ;D
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Re: Not a robot, ...
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2009, 06:28:41 AM »
That thing would tear you up into shreds if you fell in it... :/ :D
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Re: Not a robot, ...
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2009, 05:07:53 PM »
actually I think its teeth are too big to do any shredding to a human. It would just eat you whole :P
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Re: Not a robot, ...
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2009, 06:40:56 PM »
I read about this machine several months back on Wikipedia (I remember it is the only machine larger than NASA's crawler-transporters).  The interesting thing is it doesn't look like it should even be able to balance itself (the trailer-thingy connected to it may act as a counter weight).  Even so, it looks like it will still tip over sideways. :o

Now if they made it manless or even autonomous, it would be the ultimate strip-minner (manless mining, tell it were to dig and it will extract all the resources for you). 
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