Most. Beautiful. Thing. EVAR.

Ganked from wolfger: the world’s most gorgeous sight, in that industrial kinda way…

More information (and more pics!) behind the

What is it? It’s the world’s largest excavator, used in Germany for mining coal. More information on a Russian-language Web site, translated via Babelfish, is here.

Damn. I want me one of these. Just the thing for the post-Apocalyptic future I have in mind.

16 thoughts on “Most. Beautiful. Thing. EVAR.

  1. What’s equally impressive is that BabelFish had done a reasonable job of translating the site! I was going to bash it and produce a far superior translation (hey, it’s a long night shift at work), but I was surprised to note that while ugly, the resulting English text was mostly non-ambiguous.

    Oh, and HOLY SHIT! This thing is cool!

  2. What’s equally impressive is that BabelFish had done a reasonable job of translating the site! I was going to bash it and produce a far superior translation (hey, it’s a long night shift at work), but I was surprised to note that while ugly, the resulting English text was mostly non-ambiguous.

    Oh, and HOLY SHIT! This thing is cool!

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