cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32524920

I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester’s inner workings and I still don’t understand how this thing works.

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’ve gone down this rabbit hole, combine harvesters might be the most advanced piece of technology ever created, they’re fucking insane. Space travel seems simpler than the engineering that goes into those mother fuckers, a computer is child play in comparison.

    • Eranziel@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      They’re very cool and intricate indeed. But, as someone who grew up on a farm and is pretty familiar with combines: you’re drastically underestimating the engineering challenges in computers and space travel.

    • Ogy@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      A computer is many orders of magnitude more intricate, technologically advanced, etc. A modern computer chip requires incredibly complex 3D labyrinths of different materials that have walls that are nanometers thick.