Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard
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Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard
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#2I'm not sure if I love or hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society. "We're referring to it as the 'ball court', though it could also have had ceremonial or political significance. Notice the symmetry and the way it is aligned to true north."
(I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.)
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#3My favorite of these "trials" ads has got to be their Jenga game from 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWc8dUl7Xfo). I'd like to imagine that that could be turned into a real competition.
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#4I wished it planted trees rather than uprooted more to create a stupid pr video
Re: Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard
#5I'm not sure if I love or hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society. "We're referring to it as the 'ball court', though it could also have had ceremonial or political significance. Notice the symmetry and the way it is aligned to true north." (I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.)
> (I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.)
They probably won't... but maybe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders
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#6I wished it planted trees rather than uprooted more to create a stupid pr video
It looks like they did it in the middle of some farmer's field. I don't think any trees were uprooted for this.
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#7My favorite of these "trials" ads has got to be their Jenga game from 2014 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWc8dUl7Xfo ). I'd like to imagine that that could be turned into a real competition.
That was cool. The guy walking around the stack calling plays was making me nervous though, lol. He'd need more than a hard hat to survive a pileup.
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#8I'm not sure if I love or hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society. "We're referring to it as the 'ball court', though it could also have had ceremonial or political significance. Notice the symmetry and the way it is aligned to true north." (I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.)
Exactly. It turns out that the pyramids were just a cross-promotional publicity stunt between the Egyptian Wheel Company and an ancient board game.
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#9It'd been cool if they had hacked the equipment to be able to drive autonomously instead of remote driven. Oh, right, you don't have a right to repair, so you can't modify the rig you just bought. Doh!
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#10Was expecting something fully automated: generate a 3-d
plot of the game board, download to a controller that
acts like a 3-d printer, with dozers as the “print” heads.
Well, Cat’s 100th anniversary is a few years away - we can hope.