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The Bagger 288 is such an amazing yet terrifying thing.

In terms of ambiental health, this... Abomination of metal and wires is a devastating wound bleeding on the side of Mother Nature. Simply crafting such a machine is already a sin against God's Green Earth, let alone feeding it the rivers of oil it takes to shatter and dig through the land until it becomes a devastated desert of gray.

Yet, it's the living will of hubris of humanity. The zenith of our constant hunger for God's blood, a paragon to how it's never sufficient, how it must go higher, bigger, until it becomes a gargantuan artifact that's completely beyond the mind of our ancestors. How would explain this thing to a nobleman from half a millennia ago? A metal colossus that does more labour than a hundred thousand miners and is tall enough to block the Sun.

It's THE monument to industrialism, to how far our hands will reach towards both scientific progress and ravaging our world 'till it becomes dust. It's both terrifying yet awe-inducing, so almighty yet so needlessly hurtful. I can't think of anything better to represent the height of humanity's achievements and, in perfect tandem, hunger.