This is the end result:
http://robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=781

This is how it happened:
http://robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=780

Maybe this will help you understand:
http://robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=779

If that piccy didn't help this one sure will:
http://robowars.org/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=778
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That's crazy!
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good to see that damned nightmare clone is actually doing some damage

cant help but wonder how he managed to get that thing up there.... he must have managed to drive up into the buckets and gotten taken for ride hehe

10/10 on those pictures right there
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The reclaimer (the big thing with the wheel) works automatically to pick up dirt, put it onto a conveyor and send it back to fill in the hole left by the mine. Since the thing is basically on awesome robot if you park a bulldozer in its path it will reclaim it too.

Apparently the opperators saw it was going to happen and couldn't shut it down in time. They just had to watch it happen.
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any idea of where in Aust that happened ?
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Did I say it happened in Australia? Looks like a yankee thing to do.

Actually the e-mail that arrived to work about it said it was up at Gladstone. But one of the guys here said it didn't really look like Gladstone though.
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You can tell by the cars in the background that the photos are from Aust. unfortunately - because it is a typical yank thing to do...
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easy some one digitally enhance the picture on the cars and see if the stearing wheels are on the left or the right
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From the guy that brought you How to Destroy a Bulldozer, we now have

HOW TO DESTROY AN EXCAVATOR

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/hoecrash.asp

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Originally posted by Waddy the phoenix:
easy some one digitally enhance the picture on the cars and see if the stearing wheels are on the left or the right

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lol im amazed the excavator had enough force behind it to rip that far into the bridge!
*continues planning kinetic energy weapons*
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best quote ever:: "Those Gas-Turbine style warehouse heaters arent illegal, and neither is remote controlling one as far as I know."

just looking at it, it didnt "rip through" the bridge.
the hand rails on both sides are intact.

it looks like it clipped the underside of the box section (they are hollow yaknow) that pushed the arm back and up which punched through the deck.
conversly it pushed the bed down "a bit" ... you can see the "flat" bed isnt quite so flat anymore

either way the driver of the truck would have experienced a sudden stop.

Keep in mind KE = 1/2 M V^2
its the V^2 bit that gets ya
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nah, its a = (v^2 - vo^2) / 2sg that really hurts.

a = acceleration, v=final velocity, vo=starting velocity, s=stopping distance, g=gravity constant (9.8m/s/s)

Or, put more simply. Speed (energy) doesnt kill, its the sudden stop (deceleration) that hurts and turns people into pink splats.

Or put another way, off-ramps are fine, brick walls (or concrete bridges) = ouch


Most of our robotic combat is about rapid transferal of energy into the opponent (deceleration) in an attempt to break something.
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theres still a V^2 in there ;-P
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