AT-ATs Coming to a Forest Near You

Audent writes "Not strictly speaking anything any of us should classify as work related, or even open source, but holy shitbags! I want one of these. Plustech, a subsidiary of tractor maker John Deere, has built a six-legged walking logging machine that just has to be the prototype for an AT-AT walker. Imagine parking this puppy at the mall!"

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Can't view mpegs?

[Jon Howard]

I cannot view the videos, since I run Linux...

Dude! Get MPlayer or Xine. There are others, but those two seem to be pretty well done.

Re:Different Walk styles..

[rchatterjee]

Sorry about replying to myself but i found a relavent link about insect movement:

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/entomology/topics/moveme nt.htm

What About the Steeper Slopes??

[sexecutioner]

Look, in Tasmania the forestry industry is pretty fucked for lots of reasons. Yet "they" still come out with the same crap that you've just spouted. Chain logging may reduce the impact on the soil due to wheeled and tracked vehicles. However, it also means that the idiots can also log some of the steepest slopes, that is those that they would have never been able to log before. They (the logging companies) don't give a rats ass about the ecological implications of what they are doing, they are simply trying to subdue the public (and Government in many cases) long enough for them to screw us all over. I only feel a bit churned up over this because in Tasmania we have 400 year old 70+ metre tall Eucalyptus Regnums (the tallest hardwoods in the world) being sold for chips at just over AU$1000 a pop - it makes me sick

Re:Different Walk styles..

[PD]

Actually arthropods cover spiders, centipedes, and insects. Arthropods is the phylum. Centipedes are class Chilopoda, spiders are class Arachnida and order Araneae, and insects are class Insecta.