#Big Machine

[hauntedlovewasteland]

Thinking about Taylor being asked if anyone in her inner circle knew that Big Machine was sold to Scooter Braun (which gave him the rights to her masters) and her replying “No one knew” right after they mention her dad was an investor in Big Machine.

[wangleline]

I finished my coolest 3D artwork tonight

[dimalink]

A big and powerful machine. It stands near the house. Someone can go with this car, maybe. To a supermarket, u know. It is a joke. Yes, a building machines, of course, they are a titanic things.

Such a big machines. Symbol of industrial era. Maybe, it can be placed there a computers. Maybe. And this is, already, a symbol of computer era. Everyplace – a computer.

Steel monster. I remember game Monster Truck, Madness Monster Truck about racing with a big cars. Sorry, but I play a little into it. But I remember that game.

Such a tractor can dig and build something on the Moon! I think so! A moon builder! It digs a moon dust. On a grey moon. And it has a black sky. It is calm everywhere. And this is sci fi.

[bigshipfanatic]

The SS Duchess of Richmond, later known as Canadian Pacific’s Empress of Canada II (1928-1953). The first Empress of Canada was built in 1920 but was sunk by Italian torpedo in 1943.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Velvet Revolver - Big Machine

[elimaybeafish]

Something I find attractive is someone with a autism or skill that I, do not have/ do not understand/ can not do

Like hell ya go work on the big machine

[musicmags]

[worms-go-here]

Since we all like Bagger 288...

Heres Big Brutus!

Big Brutus is an electric shovel that was used in the 60's and 70's for coal mining in southeast Kansas. They've made it into a centerpiece for a coal mining museum in the town of West Mineral, Kansas.

Big Brutus is HUGE. He's 16 stories tall, 11 million pounds, and his bucket (as you can see here) easily accommodates a four-piece band. Brutus is so huge that you can see him over the trees as you approach the museum from miles away.

Besides his impressive size (huge, massive, you don't get how massive unless you go see) Brutus boasts some other crazy stats. At the museum, they've lined the path from the museum building to the shovel with his old cable. This hoist cable was used to lift his bucket and was 800 feet, weighed 25 pounds per foot, and had to be replaced every 6 months before failure.

Big Brutus's crawlers are 7 feet tall. He has four crawlers with two sets of tracks each, and each track has 32 pads. Each pad is 5.5 ft long and weighs 2,008 pounds. These gave Brutus a top speed of .22 mph. Each crawler had an oil tank that held 2,220 gallons of oil.

Despite being absolutely massive, Brutus was operated by a crew of only three people: The Oiler, who monitored the inside of the machine to make sure it was properly lubricated at all times, The Operator, who sat in the driver's seat and operated the bucket, and The Groundsman, who walked/drove alongside the machine and coordinated with the Operator to determine Brutus's path and actions. There was a sort of honorary fourth crew member, The Electrician, who did repairs on the machine's wiring, but as he wasn't required when the machine was actively working his position stays honorary.

Here's some pictures of the inside of Big Brutus where The Oiler would be working. It's a large space but it's full of all sorts of machine bits. I visited Brutus on my lonesome so I didn't have anyone to use for scale, but most of these bits and bobs are several feet taller than a human.

And here's some pictures of The Operator's area

Aaand here's a few more pictures of Brutus being BIG

If you're in America and can't go to Germany to visit Bagger 288 (I think that's where he's based), you can visit Big Brutus instead! He's big and cool! and orange

[thepermanentrainpress]

Gallery: Brantley Gilbert @ Rogers Arena - Vancouver, BC Date: June 28, 2023 Photographed by: Tom Russell

[sethnorth]

“Big Machine”

[natalieironside]

Living thru the AI boom feels the way I imagine it must've felt to live through spiritualism times. Work is slowing down because the boss wants us to hold another fucking seance.

[slasher-art]

I love the dynamic of *smol guy and his big chthonic boyfriend* so much. 🥺💖

[bigshipfanatic]

Some lovely photos of the SS Bremen

[sophiebaybey]

Not to preach to the choir but I wonder if people generally realize that AI models like ChatGPT aren't, like, sifting through documented information when you ask it particular questions. If you ask it a question, it's not sifting through relevant documentation to find your answer, it is using an intensely inefficient method of guesswork that has just gone through so many repeated cycles that it usually, sometimes, can say the right thing when prompted. It is effectively a program that simulates monkeys on a typewriter at a mass scale until it finds sets of words that the user says "yes, that's right" to enough times. I feel like if it was explained in this less flattering way to investors it wouldn't be nearly as funded as it is lmao. It is objectively an extremely impressive technology given what it has managed to accomplish with such a roundabout and brain-dead method of getting there, but it's also a roundabout, brain-dead method of getting there. It is inefficient, pure and simple.

[catboy-dysphoria]

Posting this as its own post bc I'm so proud of myself for making this

[thebohemianloner]

Living like a house on fire; what you fear is your desire. It’s hard to deal, and I still love the way you feel