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Trucks don’t get cooler than this

When I see things like this I am reminded of how very cool engineering is. It is amazing the stuff we can build when we want.

Truck to hoist giant antennas up the Andes

It is a 20m-long truck that will be used to move giant antennas weighting 115 tonnes each up the Andes to a plateau at 5,000m. The antennas will form the Alma telescope.

Full BBC article: Giant truck set for sky-high task (via Boing Boing)

August 2, 2007   Filed under: technology  

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