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    MarlboroTestMonkey7: +1 awesome if populated with lego minifigs. more »
    Geekmansworld: Without judging the names, take one guess to find the Soviet-built reactor from the people who brought you Chernobyl. (Hint: its the one with the fli... more »
    dukeofurl01: I don't suppose these are available any bigger, so that you can, you know, read the text? more »
    PossibleCabbage: I wish I could get prints of these, I want to hang them on my wall. more »
    ManchuCandidate: Whohoo, Canada City represent! Candu 3 and Douglas Point! My now retired nuke engineer father worked on both. I remember a tour I did as a kid of a... more »
    EdificeComplex: These remind of a book I got when I was a kid. It was a series of axonometric sections of things like the Titanic, a castle, the space shuttle and the... more »
    John Hazard: Where's the break room with the donuts? more »
    Insomnia Bob: I think your being to hard on the gizmo, Newitz. It doesn't seem that boring to me. #stargate more »
    Aethyr: Those things look awesome. Reminds me of that scene in Ocean's Thirteen where they caused an artificial earthquake with one. #bored #stargate more »
    Chip Overclock: I remember reading some years ago an article on concerns about how easy these machines made boring. A century ago when you wanted a subway tunnel, it ... more »
    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): You had me at 'Real-life Stargate Discovered'..... But then you crushed my dreams like rock being crushed by a boring device!! How Boring!! #stargate more »
    Cribbage Left: Here's a video showing how these things work. It's a real nerdgasm. enjoy. #stargate more »
    leicester: More of the bad boys. [www.theblogbelow.com] #stargate more »
    Roklimber: Ok, since others have already made all the Stargate-related jokes and all the boring-related jokes I could think of, I'll try something else entirely.... more »
    Smeagol92055: Everyone knows that that's a fake Stargate that the SGC planted there to get the conspiracy theorists buzzing. They do crazy things like that every f... more »
    Anekanta - Go Play!: If you go to BLDG BLOG page for november ( [bldgblog.blogspot.com] ) and scroll about half-way down the page, you'll see that this tunnel boring machi... more »
    mattycakes: It was captured by the Department of Energy? Who did they capture it from, the Goa'ulds? #stargate more »
    Golem100: Good thing it wasn't buried in snow, those Norwegians would have blown it. #stargate more »
    Golem100: I'm listening to the audio version of the Tommyknockers and when I first saw the above picture my immediate thought was "Oh my God, not a remake of th... more »
    Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: So thats where I left my screw driver. #stargate more »
  • #reactorporn

    Know Your Nuclear Reactors with Illustrated Wall Charts

    Nuclear reactors are an unlikely source of art, but the complex workings of these machines have a strange, industrial beauty to them. These incredibly detailed wall charts explain the inner workings of the machines and display them in cutaways. More »
  • #industrialdesign

    Real-Life Stargate Discovered?

    This is actually a massive boring device, captured by the Department of Energy. Geoff Manaugh of BLDG BLOG came across it a few days ago.
  • #robots

    A Giant Robot That Kills Trees More Efficiently

    Check out this scary video of a Terminator-esque "harvester" machine that cuts a tree down, shaves its branches and bark off, and then spits it out in perfect, standard log lengths. (Thanks, Gregory!)
  • #megarobots

    Meet Your New Robot Overlord: The Autonomous Mining Truck

    So you already know about autonomous aerial vehicles being used in combat and surveillance — they're little planes that look almost like toys. Not so with the next generation of autonomous vehicles. A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon have just won a contract to create a robotic system that would make this badass 797B Caterpillar mining vehicle into an autonomous hulk with no driver on board. This is clearly one of Skynet's minions in the making. More »
  • #megamaterials

    Hot Running Steel

    When you see a picture of molten steel pouring out of a faucet into the sink, you might guess it's a piece of art rather than an actual industrial machine. But this image is quite real, and I wouldn't recommend rinsing your hands in that sink. It's a photo from a French factory that manufactures steel tubes for oil and gas lines. Below, we've got more insane steel goo, plus an artist's homage to giant ladles of molten steel. More »
  • #megageoengineering

    The Gold Smelting Factory of Kyrgyzstan

    This gigantic tool is an ore-grinding machine at the Kumtore gold mine, the largest in Central Asia. The mine clings to the side of the Tien Shien mountain range, 4200 meters above sea level in Issyk Kul Province, Kyrgyzstan. Want to see the process of smelting gold up there in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan? More »