00:00Are you ready to discover what you feel when you maneuver the biggest machines in the world?
00:06It's a unique experience, don't miss it.
00:09The first monster you're going to pilot is the Giant Agode excavator.
00:13It turns a field in a blink of an eye.
00:17The excavator you're going to ride in is the Bagger 293,
00:21one of the most imposing machines in the world.
00:24This real titan among the giants was built in Germany in 1995.
00:30If you want to examine it before getting to work,
00:33you have to prepare yourself physically, because the walk will be long.
00:37It measures nearly 225 meters long.
00:40Once in the cabin, you will observe the surrounding landscape from a height of 96 meters.
00:45And don't try to lift this beast.
00:48It weighs 14,000 tons, as much as the Brooklyn Bridge.
00:53If you want to try something else, I can suggest the little brother of the Bagger 293,
00:58the Bagger 288.
01:00You may like it even more than its sister.
01:03Currently, an energy and mining company uses this mastodon.
01:08With a little luck, it will let you test this excavator in Godet.
01:12It serves as an open-air extraction mobile machine.
01:15It took ten years to design and build this colossus,
01:18whose cost is about 100 million dollars.
01:21And it is barely thinner than its powerful sister,
01:24i.e. 13,500 tons,
01:26half the weight of the Statue of Liberty.
01:29Going around this excavator, or climbing inside its cabin,
01:33also requires some effort,
01:35because it is quite close in size to the Ogress we were talking about a moment ago.
01:39A little too much exercise for a single day,
01:41and look at these 12 huge caterpillars that propel the machine.
01:44It gives all its speed to this giant,
01:47allowing it to move at nearly 10 meters per minute.
01:50Phew, let's go for the race.
01:54Oh, I see.
01:55You have enough excavators,
01:57and you want to try something a little different.
01:59Let me introduce you to the Tyson crane.
02:01This gargantuan construction makes perfect sense
02:04when you realize that, to build big machines,
02:07you need something as big,
02:09or even bigger,
02:11to move all the parts.
02:13The Tyson crane could well be the ideal tool for this purpose.
02:16To test it, you will have to go to a shipyard in China.
02:20Isn't it the biggest crane you have ever seen?
02:23It is also considered to be the most powerful crane in the world,
02:26with a load capacity of more than 20,000 tons.
02:29This means that it could lift more than 150 blue whales at a time.
02:33And they are the biggest animals on the planet.
02:35All you have to do is convince them to lend themselves to the game.
02:39What would you say about digging a little?
02:41The big Bertha can help you.
02:43With it, this activity is a child's play.
02:45It is the largest and most impressive tunnel in the world,
02:48with a total length of 91 meters.
02:51Take Big Ben in London and lay it on the ground.
02:54This is what Bertha looks like.
02:56This machine is also five-story high,
02:58and there is no elevator to access its top.
03:01This 7,000-ton monster is regularly transported from one construction site to another.
03:05It is certainly not an easy job.
03:08We are now going to discover something different.
03:11Why not a superdoser?
03:13Here is the Komatsu D-575A,
03:16the largest and most powerful bulldozer in the world.
03:19It is produced in Japan,
03:20but the machine is mainly used in Australia and North America.
03:24You can therefore choose any of these regions to test this super machine.
03:28But entering its cabin is not a very easy thing,
03:31given its height.
03:33If you get there, you will know what a power of 1,150 horsepower looks like.
03:37If you want something more exotic,
03:39we can go test the NASA caterpillar transporter.
03:42It was designed to move entire rockets.
03:45Although it is about 50 years old,
03:47this giant machine is still as impressive.
03:50The caterpillar transporter is the size of a baseball field,
03:53and its maximum speed is 1.6 km per hour
03:57when it carries a load and 3.2 km per hour without load.
04:01Since its launch,
04:03this giant has already traveled more than 3,700 km,
04:06almost the length of the Mississippi River.
04:10I hope you enjoyed this extraordinary experience,
04:13but now we're going to fly away.
04:16And there, the king of the sky,
04:18it's the McDonnell Douglas KC-DX Extender.
04:21This giant machine has two functions,
04:23fuel refueling and cargo transport.
04:27Look at this plane.
04:28Its wingspan is comparable to that of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
04:32It's breathtaking.
04:34The length of this plane is even more impressive.
04:38Once you take off,
04:40you will feel the power of this machine.
04:43It carries 160 and 1,500 kg of fuel.
04:47Let's do the math.
04:48A plane like the Boeing 747
04:51consumes about 3.7 liters of fuel per second.
04:55For a 15-hour flight,
04:57that gives 204,412 liters,
05:00or about 173,700 kg.
05:04As a result,
05:05our McDonnell Douglas KC-DX Extender
05:08could supply this airliner
05:10for almost the entire duration of its flight.
05:14Now I'm going to show you something
05:15you've never seen before.
05:17It's the F-60 conveyor belt.
05:20This colossal beast is the largest conveyor belt in the world.
05:24I bet you can't wait to play with this monster.
05:27It measures nearly 500 meters long,
05:29200 meters wide and 80 meters high.
05:32Climbing to the top is like climbing a 18-story building.
05:36The entire construction weighs 11,000 tons,
05:39almost as much as the famous Eiffel Tower.
05:41This conveyor belt was built in 1991 in East Germany.
05:47What would you say to enjoy the sun
05:49and watch the waves crash on the shore?
05:52We are now going to visit one of the largest ships in the world,
05:55the Prelude.
05:56This giant machine is a floating natural gas plant.
06:00It is nearly 490 meters long.
06:02It is so huge that if you placed it vertically
06:05next to the Empire State Building,
06:07it would exceed it by about 45 meters.
06:10And it would completely block traffic in Manhattan.
06:13You are probably thinking that piloting this monster
06:15is not an easy task.
06:17At full load, it weighs no less than 600,000 tons,
06:20which is five times more than the Toronto CN Tower in Canada.
06:24And since we are talking about legendary ships,
06:26we absolutely need to mention the famous SeaWise Giant.
06:29It also has other names,
06:31such as the Happy Giant and Nock Nevis.
06:34Built in Japan,
06:36it once held the record for the longest ship in the world,
06:39with a tonnage of 657,000 tons at full load.
06:43This ship was so large
06:45that it could not take on the main canoes,
06:47those of Suez and Panama, for example.
06:50Unfortunately, it was seriously damaged during a conflict,
06:54but it was saved later
06:56and was transformed into a storage unit.
06:58Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to visit it.
07:01In 2009, it was dismantled after its last voyage.
07:05Then we have a floating vacuum cleaner.
07:08This is the Queen of the Netherlands,
07:10a drag ship built in 1998.
07:14This machine has a port weighing 60,000 tons
07:17and is twice as long as a football field.
07:20Its role is to vacuum the vase and debris from the seabed.
07:23In fact, you can even know
07:25where this huge ship is in real time.
07:28You may have noticed
07:30that we have not yet traveled by train.
07:32We will fix it.
07:34Here is the Big Boy.
07:36This steam locomotive is the largest ever built.
07:38It is 40 meters long
07:40and weighs 544,000 kilos.
07:43These machines were so powerful
07:45that they could pull trains of entire goods
07:48through mountain ranges without getting tired.
07:51And finally, it is possible to visit
07:53the world's largest machine,
07:55Hadron's Great Collider,
07:57located on the border between Switzerland and France.
08:00It is a 27-kilometer-long particle accelerator.
08:03Scientists use it to crush subatomic particles
08:07against each other
08:09and unravel the mysteries of the universe.
08:11So you'd better not get close to it.
08:13The noise is so short that it could create a black hole.
08:16It's a joke,
08:18but the LHC remains the most powerful particle accelerator ever built
08:22and it pushes the limits of our knowledge in physics.
08:25And here's a little bonus.
08:27I hope you like speed,
08:29because you're going to climb on the biggest motorcycle in the world.
08:31This gigantic motorcycle is 5 meters high
08:34and weighs 5.5 tons,
08:36as much as a little elephant.
08:38And the most beautiful thing is that this motorcycle
08:40has already traveled a distance of about 41 meters.
08:43Which of these monstrous machines would you like to maneuver?
08:46Tell us everything in the comments.
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