[photos] Factorio in real life

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9 Merlin Rocket Engines on a Falcon 9.

I am SO happy about the amount of awesome space stuff happening recently, what with spacex, nasa, esa, India, China, Russia, jaxa... Who else?

The James Webb Space Telescope.. Go Technology + Science!!!

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The Schwerer Gustav (Heavy Gustav). The fully assembled gun weighed nearly 1,350 tonnes ~1,224,700kg and could fire shells weighing 7t ~6,985kg a range of 47 km (29 miles). Schwerer Gustav was the largest calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat and, in terms of overall weight, the heaviest mobile artillery piece ever built. It fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece.

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Its intended use was to blow up the French Maginot Line, but it wasn't ready in time. And the attack through Belgium meant it was never needed. The size of the shells was staggering.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

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