monster machines
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All The World’s Cows On Treadmills Could Power 6% Of Earth
When roaming open pastures, cattle can walk up to eight hours a day while grazing but they can’t always get as much exercise when confined to a barnyard. One enterprising farmer, however, has invented an ingenious means of getting his herd moving — and generate a bit of free electricity on the side.
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Monster Machines: South Korea’s Black Panther Battle Tank Shoots Parachute Bombs
When your neighbours are Kim Jung-un level crazy, you’d better make sure your defenses are bigger and badder than anything they can throw at you. Or at least just as crazy, like the K2 Black Panther’s parachute munitions.
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Monster Machines: The US Army’s Biggest Tug Boat Can Haul An Entire Aircraft Carrier
Parking a 173m guided missile cruiser is tougher than it sounds. So when the US Army’s largest ocean-going vessels need a helping hand squeezing into foreign ports, they call on the biggest and baddest tugboats in the armed forces: the MGen. Nathanael Greene-class large coastal tugs.
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Monster Machines: The ISS Is About To Get A Shipment Of Laser CATS
It may not leave a trail of destruction and pew-pews in its wake but NASA’s newest atmospheric sensor, the laser-beaming CATS module, could afford researchers a fuller understanding of how our reliance on nonrenewable energy fuels climate change.