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Obligatory video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQobzdCNDgQ

Before anyone freaks out, note that (as ChuckMcM said) all these trees are almost exactly the same size/age. This isn't an old-growth forest -- it's a lot closer to harvesting a field of corn.




Kinda cool and creepy at the same time. It sets of my creepy vibe a bit to have such an efficient machine for destroying living things. For a tree, it doesn't seem so bad, but what would you think if there was a slaughterhouse machine that processed cows or chickens like that? Hell, for all I know there already is one. I know my food has to come from somewhere, but I don't think I'd like to watch a machine like that at work.


It makes me a little sad that the machine looks like a steam shovel, and not a mech suit with chainsaw hands.


Wow. That might be the most amazing machine I've ever seen. Even if it was an old-growth forest, I'd still just be impressed.


Did you actually think that they were somehow planting an "old-growth" forest?


What made you think that? I said nothing of the sort.

Judging from the comments on the video, there are plenty of people who do.




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