The World’s Biggest Dump Truck Can Haul a Staggering 500 Tons

What looks like a small apartment complex is actually the biggest vehicle man has ever dared to put on eight wheels. Designed and built by a Belarusian company called BelAZ, the 75710 (come on, you couldn’t have thrown the word mega in there?) itself weighs almost 900 tons, and can haul close to 500 tons of mined rock.

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A Timelapse of a Massive Turbofan’s Blades Being Installed by Hand

A Timelapse of a Massive Turbofan's Blades Being Installed by Hand

GE’s monster, GEnx turbofan is a marvel of modern tech that completely changed conventional turbofan design. But just because it creates a massive amount of pressure by actually containing burning air and fuel in the combustor itself doesn’t mean its not still a labor of love. As you can see in GE’s timelapse above, each massive, efficient blade is lovingly installed by hand.

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How the US Navy Uses the Largest Hospital Ships In the World to Help Everyone [Monster Machine]

This is the USNS Comfort next to a Nimitz-class supercarrier, the biggest war ship in the world. Together with its twin, the USNS Mercy, they are the largest hospital ships on the oceans, the second largest hospital in the US and the fifth largest on the planet. More »