Here's a Bucket-Wheel Excavator I build and painted for Necromunda Ash Wastes. If I can I'm going to use this as a Skalvian Explorator for my Squat Prospectors, but if it's too big I'll just use it as a terrain piece.
Just like the rest of my Squats, I added a bunch of dirt and rocks being sent from the buckets down the conveyor belt. Among all the rubble are a bunch of power crystals and skulls.
"We're rich!"
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“Bucket-wheel excavator″ (2010)
This has to be one of the coolest and most unique exchanges I ever did. Waaaay back, a friend and I challenged each other to draw something difficult, out of our comfort zones. Friend asked for a bucket-wheel excavator, and I can’t remember what I asked for myself, but was happy to oblige on my end.
Fun times! back then I was super art-active and full of energy, not like the perpetually busy and exhausted individual I am now, haha.
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modded minecraft is great bc it makes you sound insane to people who dont play it. like, today i made a biodiesel refinery and a generator to power a core sample drill. i used some core samples of magnetite ore veins to determine the best location for a bucket wheel excavator. once i had that running, i had to build a few crystal growth accelerators to turn grow pure certus quartz from crystal seeds, as well as a bunch of inscribers to build up a stockpile of printed circuits. those take a while, so i spent some time refining obsidian and glowstone so i could alloy them with osmium in an arc furnace to make osgloglas ingots. i can combine those with some atomic alloy, fluix crystal blocks, and reinforced control circuits to access alternate dimensions full of giant antlions and evil santas.
we havent even gotten to the blood magic
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Stacker TAKRAF 1105 A2Rs-B 15400.120 discharging Overburden
Welzow-Süd Open-Pit Lignite Mine, Brandenburg, Germany
The machine refills the hole dug by the bucket wheel excavators
with overburden after the lignite has been removed.
image credit: u/Simson_ART on Reddit
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Chapter 209 Trivia
Why would you remove your shirts!? And how did you not die of an ebullism before you could artfully arrange your capes around your waists?
The Senku 11 here is a reference to the Apollo 11 spaceflight which landed people on the moon for the first time in 1969.
Also, the return of Suika's full melon helmet!
Aluminum has two usages for the rocket: the body, and fuel. It's strong and light-weight, but alone it can't handle the heat of reentry. This is fine since Senku doesn't plan to return.
As fuel, it needs special conditions to release energy, such as those made with thermite.
Cape York Peninsula is where Senku was headed, specifically for Weipa and Amrun, which account for most of Australia's bauxite production. Australia produces around 105 million metric tons of it per year, compared to China (68 million) and Guinea (64 million).
Bauxite itself is a dull, reddish rock made from a mix of aluminum minerals and iron oxides, and the main raw source of all aluminum on Earth. It's usually strip mined as it's found near the surface, and can be done environmentally responsibly by replacing the topsoil afterward.
A few people seemed confused by this random person here: the KoS had already begun reviving people in Australia (hence the buildings show in the previous panel), but they were running low on supplies to revive/feed the manpower they required to get sufficient amounts of bauxite.
Bucket wheel excavators are some of the largest vehicles ever produced, with a few of them featured in the Guinness World Records for their size, though not all of them are huge. They're used to continuously dig up large amounts of dirt and transport it away using conveyor belts.
In the Japanese version, Gen only says "bake*… Excalibur?" rather than the full joke the English translator @CDCubed came up with, "basket-weave Excalibur".
*Bake here is pronounced "bah-keh", and is a shortened version of "baketto" meaning "bucket".
The ship here has influences from the Americans: zig-zag patterns and stripes. The boat's name seems to be "NXN" but I couldn't find a meaning or a reference for it. It's a catamaran— it has two hulls to increase stability and reduce drag, allowing it to be more fuel-efficient.
The food here is all made from corn: corn tortillas to make burritos and tacos, cornbread muffins, then what I assume is corn chowder or soup.
I hope this isn't Yo since he's clothed in the next image, but Suika appears to be getting flashed by a naked person with spiky hair covering themselves up with a tray…
Last chapter we had a moon phase near the new moon, and this time we have a full moon, meaning at least 2 weeks have passed since the mathlympics.
Ryusui, Senku, and Tsukasa are shown on the surface of the moon, but they are not necessarily the three going on the mission itself. The roles they need to fill are "pilot", "scientist", and "warrior", that trio simply fit.
We also know that Tsukasa's choices were Taiju and Chrome, but that was before Ryusui was introduced.
In addition, we've seen that Chrome won't let Senku go on a suicide mission.
I wonder if we'll get an Australian character added to the team, or if the KoS will move on immediately.
I just think Australian slang would be a great addition with Chelsea and Gen around…
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A Bucket Wheel Excavator on Earth
Credits: ThyssenKrupp Technologies, SwapMeetDave
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glad that even with the advanced technology of star wars the bucket-wheel excavator still lives on
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