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Science

The Tallest Mobile Crane

By Posted on 3.26.2009 10 Comments
Built for tasks like lifting 55-ton generators to the top of 300-foot windmills, the Liebherr 11200-9.1 might just be the world’s most monstrous truck. The 108-ton 18-wheeler doubles in weight when the boom—-which with extensions can reach 47 stories—-is attached. Fully assembled, it can lift up to 2.6 million pounds. Without the boom, it can drive on public roads, so getting it to a job site requires five fewer trucks than it would take to haul in and assemble an equally large fixed crane. It’s also far easier to move from place to place once it’s on-site.

3.24.2009 at 10:55pm - Comment by sowerofcrop

ok 1200 ton = 3x40 tons 3x80,000lbs tractor trailers ( out side your suv window) walk in the park people!! there was a coal stripmining shovel built years ago that could load like six train cars with one bucket. i think it was called the "big muskie" had to have cranes with this capasity then P.S. what weighs more a ton of lead or a ton of turkey feathers( my dad got me with this wat to many times)
The Environment

Diving for Ancient History, Scientists Discover New Species

By Posted on 2.23.2009 12 Comments
Until last December, no one had ever seen the bottom of the Tasman Fracture, a trench that drops more than four kilometers below the surface of the ocean. A group of Australian and American researchers recently spent a month hundreds of kilometers southwest of the Tasmanian coast, exploring the fracture's depths. Jess Adkins, a professor at Caltech and one of the project's lead scientists, remembers sitting in his control room and watching the underwater life on his monitors with a sense of awe.

2.23.2009 at 07:49pm - Comment by sowerofcrop

this decovery is so cool. I ask - would it be so bad to addmit that nature here on earth is as revelational say as the bible!! I like the transparency of the"sea squrt" i just realy hope they dont name a car after it!!
The Environment

The Shadow of Redoubt

By Laurie J. Schmidt Posted on 2.6.2009 3 Comments
Life for people living in the shadow of a stratovolcano would be much simpler if eruptions were easily predicted. Earthquakes and steam-venting often signal an impending eruption, but the activity may go on for weeks or months before the eruption actually happens. The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington's Cascade Range was preceded by almost two months of seismic activity and steam-venting. Many residents had begun to think the agencies issuing the warnings were "crying wolf," and refused to leave homes located in the flow paths. Many others were in the scenic area hiking and camping.

2.7.2009 at 07:56pm - Comment by sowerofcrop

THE MOUNTAIN IS PISSED because we didnt elect its leading lady to the whitehouse! MAYBE!!!
The Environment

Asphalt Gets a Hot, Green Makeover

By Posted on 1.27.2009 9 Comments
Just back from the Transportation Research Board conference and meetings (http://www.trb.org/calendar/), Carolyn Whelan, a New York-based freelancer focused on alternative energy, climate change, trade, and travel, guest blogs for PopSci.com, focusing on new fossil-fuel emissions cutting technologies for infrastructure and transport which will (hopefully) play a prominent role in the Obama administration. As the globe went ga-ga for Obama on the eve of his inauguration, builders and pundits at the recent transportation conference in Washington were angling for a piece of the green stuff Obama’s pledged – and some eco street-cred, too.

1.26.2009 at 05:40pm - Comment by sowerofcrop

money talks b/s walks sometimes hindsite still isnt 20/20
Gadgets

PopSci.com Giveaway: Win Advanced Lithium Batteries from Energizer

By Posted on 1.21.2009 135 Comments
Leave a comment (any comment) for a chance to win a pack of Advanced Lithium batteries from Energizer. 20 lucky winners will be chosen randomly on January 31, 2009.

1.26.2009 at 12:53am - Comment by sowerofcrop

Free batterys say love like warm butter biskets( actualy it was pilsbury or bob evens but what ever clicks your red slipers)
Technology

Why the Fighter Plane Failed

By Posted on 12.10.2008 27 Comments
An explosion shook the San Diego neighborhood of University City yesterday afternoon when a U.S. Navy fighter jet crashed into a house. The pilot of the plane safely ejected, but a mother, child, and grandmother died when the plane hit their home, and another child is still missing.

12.12.2008 at 07:54pm - Comment by sowerofcrop

hey Americans i feel sadness for the family, the dad where ever expecily. BUT im ready to acept that sometimes bad things happen to damn good people. The pilot his camanders his trainers controlers and others as well as the Americans at G-Zero I am scared mad that americans can put american military personel on trial in civilian courts with civilian judges and jurys. I think this is a real tragedy but its not a RAMBO movie... "wake up america" " good day"
GluBam Construction

By Posted on 11.9.2008 Comments
The bridge Yan Xiao built in Leiyang with GluBam was the town’s first. Each beam that spans the brick columns was created using Xiao’s novel process of transforming irregular bamboo into a practical building material. First he tore strips of bamboo from the stalk and arranged them in such a way as to provide the most strength. He then coated the strips with glue and compressed them in a self-built hydraulic press into beams, 33 feet long and up to three feet wide, each capable of supporting eight tons. Xiao says that the beams cost just 20 percent as much as imported lumber.

12.11.2008 at 09:38pm - Comment by sowerofcrop

if you travel the 80/90 tolroad in new york take a stop at the plazas and look at the composite structures in the older ones. I think the principal design is similar.
GluBam Construction

By Posted on 11.9.2008 Comments
The bridge Yan Xiao built in Leiyang with GluBam was the town’s first. Each beam that spans the brick columns was created using Xiao’s novel process of transforming irregular bamboo into a practical building material. First he tore strips of bamboo from the stalk and arranged them in such a way as to provide the most strength. He then coated the strips with glue and compressed them in a self-built hydraulic press into beams, 33 feet long and up to three feet wide, each capable of supporting eight tons. Xiao says that the beams cost just 20 percent as much as imported lumber.

12.11.2008 at 09:38pm - Comment by sowerofcrop

if you travel the 80/90 tolroad in new york take a stop at the plazas and look at the composite structures in the older ones. I think the principal design is similar.
Large Hadron Collider

By Posted on 11.11.2008 Comments
The Large Hadron Collider is the most ambitious engineering problem ever solved. Construction on the $10-billion behemoth—housed 300 feet underground in a 17-mile circular tube—spanned 14 years and required the efforts of 10,000 engineers and physicists. But its real engineering feat comes from the 1,200 magnets—each 35 tons in weight, 50 feet long, and powerful enough to crush a bus between them—that steer a stream of protons traveling at nearly the speed of light.

12.11.2008 at 09:30pm - Comment by sowerofcrop

so when its done with what its made to do could it become the biggest electric motor in the universe. Then it could blow hurricanes and tornado away and pump water to the desert and the ice caps and somehow help nasa,ford,chevy, and dodge!! all aside this is the coolist thing built in many generations!!!
Boeing Advanced Tactical Laser

By Posted on 11.23.2008 Comments
Truck-mounted IED-destroying lasers have already been tested in Iraq, but firing lasers from an airplane is a more difficult proposition. The first successful test of a plane-mounted laser gun came on August 7, when Boeing’s 18-ton chemical laser fired a beam from a C-130H aircraft and destroyed a three-by-three-foot target on the ground. It was the first time all of the ATL’s lab-tested pieces came together to vaporize a target. Why use a beam instead of a bomb?

11.22.2008 at 12:42pm - Comment by sowerofcrop

I think this is a awsom path for military wepons think of the pools of knowlage coming out of the military to the private sector now we got more than "tank mechanics" buy the way its very semalar to laser eye surgary and i dont recall anybody being nutered from that!!!!!!!!!!