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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Meyerweb ("Eric Meyer :firedoge:") wrote:

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• An aerial view of the Tagebau Hambach coal mine in Germany, and the equipment used to carve into the earth. The Excavator 288, a mobile mining rig, is gargantuan, approximately a hundred meters tall and 200 meters long. The mine itself is kilometers long and wide. The floor of the mine is below the undisturbed ground level by more than half the rig’s height. Outside the mine is a green plain of former farmland, and inside the mine is a dusty plain of exposed dirt. It is truly difficult to convey the scale of the scene in words.