Bigass RL Mecha

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-08-06 03:32pm

Don't mess with me!

Just look at the small white car.

Yes it is there down to the bottom left!

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-08-06 03:44pm

That's a really really small car...

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2003-08-06 03:44pm

What is that thing for?

God Emperor · Post by **God Emperor** » 2003-08-06 04:01pm

Excavation probably.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-08-06 04:03pm

[HAB]I bet an M1A1 tank could beat it...

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Oh, you didn't mean that kind of Mecha, did you?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-08-06 04:16pm

I like how it's marked "www.BigToy.com"

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-08-06 04:18pm

Y'know, that bigass red diamond sign thingy looks almost like the Shin-Ra logo from FF7.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-08-06 04:33pm

RogueIce wrote:[HAB]I bet an M1A1 tank could beat it... [/HAB]

Oh, you didn't mean that kind of Mecha, did you?

An M1A1 tank would be crushed under this thing,and mecha are not just made for fighting.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-08-06 05:17pm

I would murder a village of innocent pygmies to get my hands on something like that.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-08-06 05:27pm

As has been pointed out, the car looks to be rather farther away than the excavator. Its still freakin giant, but not as big as the picture suggests.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-08-06 05:33pm

Howedar wrote:As has been pointed out, the car looks to be rather farther away than the excavator. Its still freakin giant, but not as big as the picture suggests.

Oh yes it is as big as it suggest,a real big ass digger.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-08-06 05:58pm

Okay I "dug" up some more info about this monster:

Description:

This simulated natural color scene shows a 30 by 36 km (19 by 22 miles) region in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia (located in midwestern Germany). The myriad rectangular patches are agricultural fields; light green hues show where crops are growing and grey hues show bare soil. Darker green hues show forested areas. The various blue-grey clusters of pixels seemingly linked together by dark thin lines are towns and villages connected by roads. The data used to produce this scene were acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), flying aboard NASA's Terra satellite, on August 26, 2000.
On the right side of the image are three enormous opencast coal mines (bright white and dark blue patterns). The Hambach opencast coal mine has recently been brought to full output capacity through the addition of the No. 293 giant bucket wheel excavator--the largest machine in the world. This excavator is twice as long as a soccer field and as tall as a building with 30 floors. To uncover the 2.4 billion tons of brown coal (lignite) found at Hambach, five years were required to remove a 200-meter-thick layer of waste sand and to redeposit it off site. The mine currently yields 30 million tons of lignite annually, with annual capacity scheduled to increase to 40 million tons in coming years.

JPL @ Nasa

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-08-06 06:43pm

RogueIce wrote:[HAB]I bet an M1A1 tank could beat it... [/HAB]

Oh, you didn't mean that kind of Mecha, did you?

DUH!! The Abrahms would drive around it in circles, slowly blasting that slow moving thing to shit. Sorta like in MechWarrior 4, when you have a MadCat getting slaughtered by a 'lil Mech.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-08-06 07:14pm

Question: the vehicle in question is on tracks. How is it a "bigass RL mecha"?

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-08-06 07:21pm

Howedar wrote:Question: the vehicle in question is on tracks. How is it a "bigass RL mecha"?

A litle lesson from AI "Orga" "Mecha" lesson finished.

Lt. Dan · Post by **Lt. Dan** » 2003-08-06 09:13pm

That...thing is big. How I would love to take that thing to my old middle school.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-08-06 09:54pm

Hell, someone should model that and turn it into a Deathmatch level. Imagine running around on those giant beams blasting at someone with a rocket launcher...

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-08-07 08:13am

SPOOFE wrote:Hell, someone should model that and turn it into a Deathmatch level. Imagine running around on those giant beams blasting at someone with a rocket launcher...

That's a good idea.

On topic:
Damn, that thing's huge.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-08-08 10:54pm

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:

I would murder a village of innocent pygmies to get my hands on something like that.

Don't bother, I already tried that...I'm still waiting for that thing.

On-topic...That thing is fucking huge, mecha or not, I want one!!

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-08-09 02:00am

seeing that picture reminds me of a scene from the first Ep. of the Fox X-men cartoon, when a little kid sees a sentinel walk by and he turns to his mom and goes "Buy me that"

....... i don't know why.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-08-09 02:51am

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:

I would murder a village of innocent pygmies to get my hands on something like that.

I would murder an entire city full of gnomes to get that.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-08-09 02:52am

you guys have never seent hese before? wow. i had this old atlas of the world back when i was like 7 with pictures from all over the place and that was the one for germany, displaying germany's industrial prowess i suppose.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-08-09 09:47am

kojikun wrote:you guys have never seent hese before? wow. i had this old atlas of the world back when i was like 7 with pictures from all over the place and that was the one for germany, displaying germany's industrial prowess i suppose.

Maybe they were compensating for something?

(uhh, no offense to any Germans, but it has been said...)

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-08-09 01:15pm

I've seen stuff that big. Not with a huge buzzsaw on the end, but machinery that big.

It was over by those phosphate mines. Don't know if it was working in 'em, but it was in that general area.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-08-09 08:15pm

It looks like it's on a bunch of caterpillar tracks, if you want a giant walking machine then walking draglines are your friend. Course with a speed of 300 feet per hour and a requirement for bulldozers to level out there path your not going get very far.

Coal mining is great for supplying the world with mammoth equipment and trains.