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May 19, 2008 | by  | in Opinion | [ssba]

Dude, what’s with cranes?

Cranes weigh heaps. That’s cool. But they can lift many many times their weight? That’s fucked up!

Boats. Boats are fucked up, and will be discussed later in the year. But they also weigh an absurd number of tons, and this crane can somehow pick them up, just because it’s cabled down to the ground? Nonsense.

Pulleys: great. Absurdity: not so much.

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