Bagger 288, built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. When its construction was completed in 1978, Bagger 288 superseded NASA’s Crawler-Transporter, used to carry the Space Shuttle and Apollo Saturn V launch vehicle, as the largest land vehicle in the world, at 13,500 tons. Click here to view the first image in this week’s geek life gallery. Continue reading for a viral video of one of the coolest ice skating routines ever.
