It is an engineering marvel, indeed, as it is the biggest mobile machine of the world.
Ahh, you just beat me to it!
Bagger 288 (and its sibling, Bagger 293) are probably the biggest machines which move freely on soil. They’re about 225 m long, 96 meters tall and weigh 14 200 tons.
In the length category, the F60 overburden coveyor bridge (which moves on rails) is (was?) several times bigger, at 502 m length. It weighed less, however, at 13,600 tons.
Being destroyed by a giant machine is terrible but it did file the proper paperwork first so what can be done at this point?
There’s a lot to be said about dotted eyes and crossed teas.
I hate so much how accurate this is as a metaphor for how many politicians deal with the fascist AfD.
Just enjoy the hyperspace bypass, I expect.
every rational part of my brain fighting the 7 year old me inside me who knows Bagger 288 is the coolest thing ever
It’s like a giant Meccano set.
ok I hate coal and fossil fuels, but this thing is so cool
Just as well. 'tis a silly place.
This is very real and has been an issue for years. I remember when I was younger, watching public TV, and I saw a news report about an elderly lady who was forced to sell her home along with the rest of her village so that they could dig up the entire area for coal. At the time it was a big deal, because she took so long to agree, which got media attention. It was incredibly depressing. It felt dystopian.
I love how I know the name Bagger 288 because of a 16 year old meme
Looks like a Final Fantasy optional boss.
You can see it from space
No, you can’t. This is what earth looks like from space… https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ most of google maps uses airplane aerial shots.
Literally, yes you can, on that specific website’s satellite imagery. Bloody thing’s over 10 km wide, it’s the size of a large city. I can still easily spot it on my screen if I zoom far enough out to also include Edinburgh and Riyad!
The only way not to see it from space would be to look in the wrong place or when it is cloudy.
What am I looking at? The white dot?
The oval beige thing that takes up 1/5th of the width of the screenshot.
It is 10km wide? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293 Also, I don’t see any beige oval that takes up 20% of the screen.
You can see people’s backyard trampolines.
Those photos are from planes.
Probably, but the entire idea of “you can see it from space” is stupid anyways. Its only meaningful if its with the naked eye and the distance is specified. You can see anything from space if you have enough optical zoom…
You can see anything from space if you have enough optical zoom…
Naw, there’s theoretical a maximum resolution, iirc it’s a few centimeters. Too much air in the way diffracting the light
Planes? I had always assumed it was satellites.
Satellites have adequate resolution for imaging large areas with high coverage, but aside of stuff like spy satellites they don’t usually image smaller areas in high resolution all that well. Most of the closer up images on places like Google Maps are aerial photos.
I’m in Finland and when Google Maps first launched we only got low resolution satellite images and some aerial photos of a few cities. The difference was pretty clear.
In the bottom middle of the screen it tells you the surveyor. At least it used to I haven’t checked in a while.
Removed from the environment.
Why remove something from the environment when you can just remove the environment
It’s all fun and games until it reaches City 17.
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Alternatively, build a flying machine with TNT duplicators
Like Docm’s world eater from HermitCraft season 9.
[ilmango intro music] 🥭🥭🥭
Do you know what happened to him? I miss his content
haven’t been into Minecraft YouTube (or any YouTube really) for a year or so, was unaware he wasn’t active
i know he’s some kind of engineer irl so it may just be work keeping him busy. bummer either way
