How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe

Post by btgeekboy » Fri, Jul 25, 2014, 7:24 AM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #37

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only 5 of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-12 or just one of this, though you'd need to arrange for transport to/from the airports http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya

I never understood why, if the AN-225 is so insanely useful, only one has ever been build. Surely there would be economic benefit in building another few?

Post by Chronic29 » Fri, Jul 25, 2014, 9:08 AM UTC

theklub wrote: post #21

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One of these efforts graced the Berlin, Germany area with a huge hangar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter Luckily, they found a new use for the structure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort

This seems like a project for Elon Musk

Post by astrodust » Fri, Jul 25, 2014, 7:11 PM UTC

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Germany is also home to enormously gigantic machines like the Bagger 288 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288 ) that are so enormous you can see them from space. The scale of this thing is staggering. In one incident it accidentally scooped up a bulldozer: http://imgur.com/gallery/rU3XU Also shown there is what it looks like when it's on the move along a carefully planned and prepared route: http://i.imgur.com/5…

You can't see that thing from space. With optics you definitely would, but with optics you can see a single human from space.