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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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#96364
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[z]Barbara Harris
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23.11.2006 00:00
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Explanation:
Please wait while one of the largest mobile machines in the world crosses the road.
The machine pictured above is a
bucket-wheel excavator
used in modern
surface mining
.
Machines
like this
have given humanity the ability to mine minerals and
change
the face of planet Earth in new and dramatic ways.
Some open pit mines, for example, are
visible from orbit
.
The
largest excavators
are over 200 meters long and 100 meters high, now dwarfing the
huge NASA Crawler
that
transports
space shuttles to the launch pads.
Bucket-wheel excavators
can dig a hole the length of a football field to
over 25 meters deep in a single day.
They
may take a while to cross a road, though,
with a top speed under one kilometer per hour.
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#96370
by
Eagle_Eye
@
23.11.2006 07:41
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me müessts chli tune. under 1km/h isch äbä scho chli gär langsam...
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#96368
by
Squeezer
@
23.11.2006 06:24
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impressive
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#96372
by
[z]giusto
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23.11.2006 09:33
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ist sschon ein wenig gross, aber ob es am himmel krtzt, dass es ein astronomy pic of the day wird ist fraglich...
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#96373
by
[z]bert
@
23.11.2006 09:45
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haha, yeah :-)