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[angledge]

One of the engineers from our Sacramento office just sent me some photos of the largest earth mover in the world.




Specifications:

• The mover stands 311 feet tall and 705 feet long.
  
• It weighs over 45,500 tons.
  
• Cost $100 million to build.
  
• Took 5 years to design and manufacture ...
  
• ... and another 5 years to assemble. 
  
• 5 people are required to operate the mover.
  
• The bucket wheel assembly is over 70 feet in diameter with 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 530 cubic feet of material. 
  
• It can remove over 76,455 cubic meters each day. (100,000 large dump trucks at 40 yds. each)

The mover was built by the German company, Krupp, and is used in an open-pit coal mine.

Comments

Re: actually I thought of one

[marasca.livejournal.com]

Pray tell what a Hadron is. Is it one of those things that wasn't discovered yet when I was in 11th grade chemistry?

Re: actually I thought of one

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Whatever it is, we know that Brian's older than it.

Re: actually I thought of one

[fizrep.livejournal.com]

And shorter.

Re: actually I thought of one

[ataralas.livejournal.com]

A hadron is something made out of quarks. So, for example, a proton or a neutron. But also more exotic things like kaons and pions and sigmas, etc.

So they were discovered when you were in 11th grade Chem, but they just didn't tell you about them.