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2.6 Ton Pinball Machine

Posted by michael on from the tilt dept.

nmoog writes "Heres something you don't see everyday - The Southtyrol-game is an 11 metre, 2.6 tonne pinball "style" machine. Its intention? 'Provide an ironic and entertaining demonstration of how the advent of tourism shaped the landscape and economic habits in the small Italian province of Southtyrol.' And powered by Linux to boot. Um, as well."

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  1. Units? by heli0 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Submission:
    "Heres something you don't see everyday - The Southtyrol-game is an 11 metre, 2.6 tonne pinball "style" machine."

    Mirrored Story:
    The game is one of the worlds largest hand carved pinball style game machines. (Candidate for the Guinness World Records).
    It weighs 2.6 tons,

    So does it weigh

    2.6tonne(SI); 2,600kg (5,730lbs)? or

    2.6ton(US); 5,200lbs (2,360kg)? or

    2.6ton(UK); 5,820lbs (2,640kg)?
    Maybe we can get this in units of stones or VW beetles?

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  2. Re:11 metres long? Tourists not wanted by sbenno · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Had you read the page then you would have discovered that the game is an ironic and joking way to describe tourism in the province. The truth is that during winter the slopes and lifts are really such overcrowded that it seems like being in the middle of a herd of sheeps. This is not to speak negatively about turists.
    I think a bit of humourism in life does not hurt, otherwise we will just all degrade boring droids with no soul. ;-)

    Benno Senoner