Awesome stuff you see on the internet

[Nevorian]

@booboo Yep Pilbara Iron Ore, 325 carriages

[dogmeat]

@Nevorian they don't even need drivers

All rail stop after BHP forced to derail runaway train

[Nevorian]

@dogmeat Haha poor bloke got sacked but successfully re-instated

but you are right, they do not need drivers https://www.australianmining.com.au/news/rio-tinto-deploys-worlds-biggest-robot-in-pilbara/

[Hooroo]

@Nevorian said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@dogmeat Haha poor bloke got sacked but successfully re-instated

but you are right, they do not need drivers https://www.australianmining.com.au/news/rio-tinto-deploys-worlds-biggest-robot-in-pilbara/

Isn't the reason that they don't need drivers including the ones that cross the country is that the drivers horizon is less than the margin required to stop the train? So even if the driver did see something way in the distance, they would be powerless to do anything?

[dogmeat]

Iron ore from 16 mines is delivered to ports in Dampier and Cape Lambert, with the trains already having travelled over 4.5 kilometres autonomously since they were first deployed last year.

O for Awesome

[Nevorian]

[Machpants]

What was that?

[nzzp]

@Machpants looks a giant mining blast. But a seriousl big one.

The weird thing is it only has 11 views on youtube. Private drone footage perhaps?

[Machpants]

@nzzp Yeah I thought so, looks like there is another half to do, too!

More boom than a full B52 load over Iraq!

[Nevorian]

@Hooroo Hadn't heard that but highly plausible reason

[antipodean]

@Nevorian said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@Hooroo Hadn't heard that but highly plausible reason

That and cost. Why pay drivers ~$240k for these types of outcomes?

[jegga]

Bogan dickhead decides to fuck with smaller unassuming Indian due at a bar . Wakes up in an ambulance.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/113575607/soldier-with-sas-links-accused-of-punching-patron-in-palmerston-north-pub

[MN5]

@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

Bogan dickhead decides to fuck with smaller unassuming Indian due at a bar . Wakes up in an ambulance.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/113575607/soldier-with-sas-links-accused-of-punching-patron-in-palmerston-north-pub

He's from Palmy. "Bogan dickhead" is just needless extra words.

[NTA]

No idea how to embed this awesomeness. Just watch it.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2203676383034619&id=136219709780307

[Catogrande]

@NTA Not really even a speed bump.

[Machpants]

That was ze Germans, tank recognition still ok

No engines, but pretty cool

[antipodean]

@NTA said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

No idea how to embed this awesomeness. Just watch it.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2203676383034619&id=136219709780307

Reminds me of a sobering experience at Pucka many years ago doing a range recon with a mate in a troopy. We'd pulled over after doing a uie to inspect the map. Because of the drought we were sitting in a cloud of dust we'd made only to have a tank materialise in front of us and just miss as he went hard left. The following one went hard right through the bush. A couple of seconds earlier and it would've run straight over us and probably wouldn't have realised, simply thought they'd gone over a stump.

It was a slow, quiet drive back.

[Paekakboyz]

@antipodean jaysus!! fresh undies for that man!

[Bones]

[taniwharugby]

@Bones ha, timely, I just finished the double episode of The ORville where the Kaylons had wiped out thier 'builders'