MLP is cool

[The .50 Caliber Cow]

The MLP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Launcher_Platform] or Mobile Launcher Platform is probably the coolest piece of giant machinery I can think of. It moves rockets... ROCKETS! I would love to drive one of them.

What's your favorite piece of giant machinery? Fictional or real?

Also do you read the OP? This is a bit of an experiment to see who doesn't.

[sub][sub]Don't probate me bro! I actually do like Nasa![/sub][/sub]

 

[The .50 Caliber Cow]

Actually, I do like the Enterprise D better than the MLP. The MLP is just really massive in reality but it can't go to Warp.

Picard wins this round Nasa.

 

[Innegativeion]

Read the OP, was actually quite surprised to see the real subject of this thread, given the outbreak of threads with similar titles recently, about certain other subjects.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Ahhh...

A fake pony thread!

Well, you will get your comeuppance!


As for the machinery...I like the original Xbox. It's HUGE AS FUCK and everything.

 

[The .50 Caliber Cow]

Ahhh...

A fake pony thread.

Well, you will get your comeuppance!

But I pony hard! Honest!

[sub]I've been marathoning...[/sub]

 

[Easton Dark]

AppleJ-

...Crap

Ok fine,

Spoiler: These

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I've always been a fan of the Eclipse class. An Executer would do in a pinch though.

[sub][sub]I've actually been expecting a thread like this for awhile now.[/sub][/sub]

 

[Who Dares Wins]

I'm more a fan of the Bucket-wheel excavators. I mean, look at them.
http://media.thyssenkrupp.com/images/press/thyssenkrupp_p_831.jpg

 

[DJDarque]

I see what you did here.

My favorite piece of giant machinery? This:

 

[Popido]

This baby. YEAH!

It was built for the job of removing overburden prior to coalmining in Hambach, Germany. It can excavate 240,000 tons daily?the equivalent of a football field dug to 30 meters (98 ft) deep. The excavator is approximately 240 m long and 96 m high. To run, the Bagger requires 16.56 megawatts (22,207.33 HP) of externally-supplied electricity, it can travel 2-10 m per minute (0.6 km/h). The chassis of the main section is 46 metres wide and sits on 3 rows of 4 caterpillar track assemblies, each 3.8 m wide. It has a minimum turning radius of approximately 100 metres.

It has been featured alot in games such as S.T.A.L.K.E.R, CoD:Black Ops, BF2 Mods etc.

 

[vazzaroth]

I totally saw one of those Launch Platforms at NASA in Florida. Mofo's are MASSIVE!!!!!!

Theres a sweet excavator like the ones already posted, but I can't find the name or pics. The point is, it has treads, but its so heavy when the bit is installed, it can't use them. It has to use Pneumatics to "walk" the treads slowly. Very, very slowly. Inches per hour.

But as far as I'm concerned, its Mecha.

 

[Miles000]

The MLP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Launcher_Platform] or Mobile Launcher Platform is probably the coolest piece of giant machinery I can think of. It moves rockets... ROCKETS! I would love to drive one of them.

I can one up that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch

It's a MLP that is also a boat.

Spoiler: It is pure win.

I want to live on it.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

I think this one is cool.

 

[cryogeist]

The Schwerer Gustav!
AKA nazi train gun...thing


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

 

[Ladette]

Pfft, you people can keep your new fangled modern machinery. In my day we never had launch platforms and we got airborn just fine.

 

[Sevre]

This is how I roll:

Spoiler

Only thing bigger than that is the insurance bill.

 

[Miles000]

The Schwerer Gustav!
AKA nazi train gun...thing


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

Holy artillery.

That shell is huge. A 10m crater from the HE shell. You don't need an AP version. It would just crush the tank.
Hell I'm pretty sure that thing could FIRE a tank.

Can someone please mod this into Company of Heroes?

 

[Dango]

Spoiler: Great Fox, of course.

For reasons I shouldn't have to state.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

The Schwerer Gustav!
AKA nazi train gun...thing


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

I see your giant nazi train gun and raise you one Project HARP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP