Top 15 Bizarre Machines that do weird things

strange machines that serve even stranger purposes here are 15 of the most unique machines number 15 straddle launched the straddle launch aircraft is the largest plane in the world this isn't designed for ordinary passengers or cargo it has a wingspan of 385 feet which is so wide that it requires two fuselages to fly safely and with a maximum takeoff weight of 1.3 million pounds it's more than capable of fulfilling its intended purpose to provide a high altitude launch platform for space vehicles each fuselage is 238 feet long and has 14 landing gear wheels but only the cockpit of the right one has a flight crew on board the other is left unpressurized there are six pratt & whitney pw4000 which each provide fifty six thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds per foot of thrust many of the systems used for flight control have been borrowed from those of the Boeing 747-400 nor fourteen it's a big wind even though modern technology for extracting oil from the ground is much safer than ever there's always a risk that the well might catch on fire this happens something much more powerful than an ordinary fire engine is needed to help extinguish the flames the big wind is an ingenious solution to this problem that was built by Hungarian engineers during the Cold War they took a t-34 tank and attached to two monkey r-25 engines to it which are usually found on mig-21 Jets pipes were also installed that released water through the nozzles above the jet outlets and this meant the machine could move 220 gallons of water per second which was instantly turned into a spray of steam the spray is propelled forward at 770 miles per hour which is around the speed of sound and is more than capable of handling oil well fires number 13 Komatsu D 575 a the Komatsu D 575 a is the largest model of bulldozer that's available in the world and it's a beast machine is 38 feet and five inches long 24 feet three inches wide and has a height of 16 feet the single shank Ripper allows it to dig to a depth of 6 feet 9 inches and the vehicle is able to move up to 125 cubic yards of material in one pass this is the go-to machine for surface mine operations in the US Canada and Australia and with a 12 cylinder four-stroke engine that produces eleven hundred and fifty horsepower it's an absolute or course number 12 Prelude FLNG Prelude FLNG is operated by Royal Dutch Shell and is the world largest floating liquefied natural gas platform it's designed to be able to move across the gas fields to drill wherever the optimal position is and has even been constructed to be able to withstand category 5 hurricanes the vessel is 1601 feet long 243 feet wide and 344 feet tall and requires a crew of over 220 to operate more than 260 thousand tons of Steel were used to build it at a cost of more than 10 billion dollars and when fully loaded it displaces five times more weight than a nimitz-class aircraft carrier number 11 the sub the sub is the largest pinball machine to have ever been built and was created as a promotional campaign for Heinicke during the Milan Design Week in 2014 it was 53 feet nine inches long 24 feet 7 inches wide and 34 feet 1 inch tall and were not being used as a pinball game it doubled up as a fully functioning beer lounge a new style Heineken sub keg was used to launch the giant balls into the machine an had all of the flippers and bumpers that you would expect along with a scoreboard at the rear next time you see someone who has their own pinball machine at home just remember what they could have done if they were really committed to fun number 10 the Tyson crane the untie raffle shipyard and the Chinese province of Shandong is where some of the largest oceanic vessels in the world are built and to support this construction it makes sense that it's also where the world's largest crane can be found known as typhoon it was designed to lift huge modules into place onto ship hulls and is rated for weights of up to 20,000 metric tons in 2008 it set a record for the largest weight ever lifted by a crane at 20,000 133 metric tons which has almost double the previous record the crane itself is 436 feet tall 400 feet wide and has a maximum lift height of 260 feet an amazingly to be able to do this it has more than 31 miles of wire rope throughout Laverne I'm John Deere timber jack logging can be a laborious job mainly because many of the trees that need to be cut down are on a regular terrain that makes vehicle access tricky in the 90s a finished subsidiary company of John Deere came up with a solution though called the timber jack the walking machine has six articulated legs that ensure it always has a stable footing and as a result it can move in any direction it needs and can even walk over objects that lie in its path hundreds of sensors feed data into its onboard computers to continually monitor ground clearance and speed so an operator can steer it by just using one joystick reaching up from over the rear is a crane that can be fitted with various modules such as a chainsaw or grabber claw which means it's an all-in-one solution to any lumberjack needs numerate bertha when authorities in seattle decided they needed a new tunnel beneath the city to replace an important state route and soft a 110,000 vehicles a day they realized there wasn't a machine on earth that could do the digging required so they designed their own known as bertha the tunnel bought a cutter head that was fifty seven and a half feet in diameter and the machine itself was an astonishing 326 feet long with a weight of 67 hundred tons it cost eighty million dollars to build and remains the largest tunnel machine ever constructed it began digging along the 1.7 mile route in 2013 and despite being delayed by two years after a crucial component broke it had finished carving the tunnel by 2017 as it was developed specifically for this job parts of bertha are now on display next to the completed transport route but the learnings from the project will undoubtedly influence similar schemes around the world for many years to come number 7 nano engine we're often impressed by the biggest machines but what about the smallest ones in 2016 researchers from the University of Cambridge in England announced they had created the world's tiniest engine one that was far smaller than the eye could see this nano engine was capable of producing a force to weight ratio more than 100 times that of a muscle or motor and the intent was their collections of these could be used to make nano robots that can enter cells in the body it was made from nanoparticles of gold that were held together by gel particles and can act as a piston or a spring despite being no more than a few billions of a meter in size this could one day be looked upon as one of the most momentous inventions ever because if it leads to new ways to enter and fix the building blocks of the body it could transform medicine as we know it before we move on be sure to subscribe to top 5s with notifications on number 6 arcade deluxe have you ever played on an arcade machine and wished it could be bigger well that's exactly what Jason kamberis from Chicago thought and it led him on a two-year quest to build the largest arcade cabinet ever his final design was 14 and a half feet tall with three and a half feet deep which means it was taller than an African elephant and could fit 112 bathtubs of water inside it it's fully functional too with the option of more than 200 classic arcade games as well as the ability to hook up a modern console to the screen everything is controlled by using super-sized buttons and a 16 inch glass trackball this machine is so big that it Dwarfs the standard arcade cabinets and anyone who's stood next to it and you have to climb the pullout staircase to even be able to reach the controls number 5 aluminum extrusion press aluminum is an extremely useful material but if you want to make a large object from it you need what's known as an aluminum extrusion press these machines exert huge amounts of pressure onto metals and force them into the required shapes and surprisingly the biggest one in the world was built in the 1940s it was originally used by the German military to make aircraft components for the war effort it's now been shipped to the US where a company called Universal alloy core has retrofitted it for their business in creating aluminum alloys the 122 foot long machine has been upgraded with state of the art hydraulics and can extrude a force equivalent to sixteen thousand two hundred tons there's along with the ability to heat the metal to 800 degrees Fahrenheit means that the machine can push the metal through a die of whatever shape is required in a similar way to the modeling clay toys that kids play with all that's needed that is to cut the shapes at the required length pulled them down and then products are ready by using a machine like this the company streamlined its manufacturing process and can produce far more than any other machine in the world is capable of number four the grand telescope Jochen aureus the grand telescope Jochen Arius is a telescope located at the rock de la pocha shows observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands and it's the largest single aperture optical telescope anywhere in the world this giant machine took more than seven years to build at a cost of around 150 million dollars and it achieved first light in 2007 and began full operations by 2009 the reflecting mirror is 34 feet one inch across and this gives an effective collecting area of 845 point 4 square feet its focal length is just over 557 feet and there have been nine different instruments that have been attached to it since it opened each of which adds functionality to allow researchers to focus on specific wavelengths and parts of the sky to get as clear a view as possible uninterrupted by light pollution and the atmosphere the telescope was built near the volcanic peak at the center of the island at an elevation of 7,000 439 feet above sea level it was designed funded and built by the Spanish government with assistance from Mexico and the University of Florida and is currently operated by representatives from the three since opening the telescope has provided huge amounts of data about black holes star formations within our galaxy and beyond it has even spent some time trying to detect signs of civilization beyond our own solar system in combination with the measurements taken from other facilities around the world it's been crucial to the recent advances in understanding of the wider universe and our place within it number three the largest Rube Goldberg machine the chances are you've seen a Rube Goldberg machine before their contraptions that are purposefully designed to perform a relatively simple task in overly complicated way normally this involves a series of devices that are unrelated to each other apart from the fact that their ultimate function is to trigger the beginning of the next month and they've become popular things for hobbyists and video creators to put together the biggest Rube Goldberg machine ever devised however was a much more complicated undertaking it was built in 2016 for the Latvian town of Riga as a way to turn on their Christmas lights that year something everyone agreed was far better than inviting a little herd of celebrity to do the honors the machine was started by the mayor of the town who pressed a big red button and this began a series of 412 steps which included wheels levers balls a fan a coffee maker and much much more it took just over ten minutes for everything to run its course when the audience's patience was worth it because not only did they see a world record taking place in front of her but they were also treated to a stunning light display once that had finished building a machine like this isn't simply a case of randomly putting objects together however and it took a team of experts more than two months to plan and build they smashed the previous record and sent a very high bar for anyone planning to do the same number two the ISS as machines go there really are none as unique as the International Space Station and it's thought to be the single most expensive thing ever built and an estimated cost of 150 billion dollars it was conceived and built as collaboration between five of the world's biggest space agencies America's NASA Russia's Roskosmos Japan's JAXA Europe's ESA and Canada's CSA and access to it is protected by intergovernmental treaties it's actually the ninth space station to have been inhabited by humans and as of late 2019 has been visited by 239 people from 19 different countries it was first conceived as a replacement to the Russian Mir space station the first ISS component was launched in 1998 it is a modular design which means different parts could be sent up individually and connected when in orbit blast of which was an inflatable space habitat that was added in 2016 in total the ISS is currently 239 point 4 feet long and 350 7.5 feet wide and has a pressurized internal space of 32,000 333 cubic feet there's room for up to 6 people to be on board at any one time and it orbits at around 254 miles above ground level the ISS travels at a speed of 17,000 100 miles per hour and completes a full rotation around the earth in just under 93 minutes the use of the space station has changed from the original intentions as it was originally agreed that it would be used as a laboratory observatory and a factory which could also provide transport maintenance and a platform to launch further missions deeper into the solar system the latter plans have yet to come to fruition but in 2010 was also agreed that it could serve commercial diplomatic and educational functions things that it continues to do today its most well known for the scientific research that takes place onboard and provides power data cooling and crew to conduct zero gravity experiments electrical power is provided by the double-sided solar arrays and all other resources are taken to the station on regular supply missions it's arguably the most ambitious machine ever created and speaks to our sense of exploration and discovery current plans are for the ISS to remain in operation to at least 2030 so the decision of what might come next will have to be made soon there have been suggestions that part of the ISS will form the basis of a new station or that governments are hoping private companies will take on some of the cost burden for the next base station it's surely only a matter of time until we find out what's decided we'll plot the course of space exploration over the next few decades number one the Large Hadron Collider the Large Hadron Collider is the biggest machine ever built by humankind so it's quite fitting that such an endeavor was undertaken to understand some of the biggest questions about physics and the universe in simplistic terms it's designed to speed particles up to near the speed of light and then collide them into each other before measuring what happens as a result it's based at CERN in Switzerland and took ten years to build with the assistance of more than ten thousand scientists countless research institutions and more than 100 different countries once finished the machine filled a 17 mile circumference circular tunnel that was buried as much as 574 feet beneath the ground and cost an estimated four point seven five billion dollars since opening in 2008 the collider has been a success it found evidence of a theoretical particle called the Higgs boson has now moved on to attempting to solve other unknown mysteries that could unravel our understanding of physics subscribe to top fives for more and check out some of our other popular videos you

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