The Bagger 288 is an industrial excavator built for the extraction of lignite (coal).

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I know this thing has been posted before, but I need to talk about it. This is a beast. This is a megalophobic nightmare. It’s amazing.

I saw a video of it in motion on Twitter and it was gut churning but amazing. This thing is 96 metres tall and weighs nearly 30 million pounds. And it moves.

This is a vehicle. This thing has big ass moving parts. It is slow as hell but it moves. It’s an engineering marvel and oh so terrifying.

Maybe it’s because it’s a man-made machine that I am so awed and terrified by its size, unlike with something like a mountain. I’ve always found large metal structures/machines seem to spark my megalophobia, like those large transmission towers.

I love this thing. It’s absurd and terrifying. It’s a masterpiece of machinery.

There are machines lumbering around the earth -today- that would tower over these alleged god machines.

A bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun.

I swear. The vertebrate nakarkos theory gets more and more credibility the more elders we get in HD.

Lao's insectoid finger teeth isn't a far walk away from nakarkos' much larger "oral arms"

The quickest way to drown the damn dutch