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ITT: Stuff that really inspires you and makes you appreciate engineering. Videos, pictures, quotes etc.

Pic fucking related.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM

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everything man-made

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>>1373626
holy fucking shit that is awesome

>> No.1373642

OP from the science thread here. This is some awesome stuff.

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>> No.1373762

Atom bomb
/thread

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>>1373651

Solar Jetman!!!

also Noko for awesomness

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This may make you appreciate engineering. It may make you hate it. Regardless, it remains undoubtedly impressive.

Development of the Athabasca Oil Sands is the largest industrial undertaking in history. Oil production capacity in Alberta has increased by 1 million barrels a day in the last decade, is set to increase by 4 million barrels a day in the next two: this is equivalent to a new Iran. A new Iran in 20 years time, in terms of oil production, let that sink in. Two new Europes in thirty years by the same metric.

Typically, throughout history, oil production equipment was one-off and build on the site it would operate. For the first time in history, this precedent has been broken. Oil upgrading equipment (different from refining; upgrading converts bituminous sands into crude, which still requires refinement) is build in assembly-line fashion in Edmonton, and transported piece by piece into place, like an Erector Set. The scale of this project is simply unfathomable.

Pictured, a common sight on northernly Alberta highways.

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>>1375891
i dont know what the fuck you're talking about

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>>1375891
More pictures.

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>>1375891
This is quite win. Too bad Alberta is so fucking cold.

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>>1375891
The largest of these pieces can weigh upwards of 1000 tons; similar in size to a small frigate or destroyer.

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>> No.1375964

Why would you be inspired to suck dicks and be a fag?

>> No.1375979

>>1375891
tl;dr version:
badass Canadian truck that takes oil from fucking SAND. Mobile oil rig.

>> No.1375984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw&playnext_from=TL&videos=BRG84jampdA

>> No.1376020

>>1375979
That's the same sort of tl;dr version that news magazines write about hard science: far from the point. The trucks are on small cog in a vast machine.

The Big Dig was projected to cost $3 billion. It eventually cost $22 billion. Capital expenditures in the Oil Sands are in excess of $20 billion per year for a foreseeable 50 consecutive years or more - and that's not including workers salaries or operating costs.

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>>1376020
if that doesn't fuck with your head

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HNNNNNGH

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Irving Reed (L) and Gustave Solomon (R) who invented the Reed-Solomon error correction codes. Ironically, they published RS codes in 1960, before they were computationally feasible, and before US patent law would have let them effectively patent an algorithm as a "system and method".

But today RS codes are EVERYWHERE:
http://www.eccpage.com/reed_solomon_codes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction

They're IN YOUR HOUSE!

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>>1376462
get out of my head Reed!