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more about #mining Denvergal: Wouldn't it be frakking to keep the "a" short?Fraking would sound like baking or so I learned in 3rd grade. more » Grey_Area: And that's where felgercarb comes from. more » 92BuickLeSabre: Unregulated (in the US), pumping chemical-laced liquids at high pressure, brings gasses to the surface, scary, dramatic, and makes shower water mildly... more » ChrisBaker: You spelled FRAK wrong idiots. more » -
#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 » -
#conceptart
All Your Precious Little Moon Minerals Belong On This Carrier
Somewhere between the Eagle from Space: 1999 and the Resurrection Ship from Battlestar Galactica lies Oliver Scholl's conceptual design for a space carrier, from for the movie Moon 44. While it seems to be an unwritten rule that designers need to stick sharp spires on one end of a ship, and massive engines on the other which don't really matter outside of gravity, the piece fills the gap between usefulness and artistry. Click through for more info. More »
