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They might be the most complex mass-produced commercial machines but the Large Hadron Collider has a plausible claim to the title of "world's most complex machi
by ForHackernews 6mo ago
They might be the most complex mass-produced commercial machines but the Large Hadron Collider has a plausible claim to the title of "world's most complex machine" https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/103591-largest-machine https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/103591-la...
- bob1029 6mo agoI think something like this wins that category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Interconnection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Interconnection
- ForHackernews 6mo agoI suppose it's partly a semantic question that hinges on what you count as a single "machine" and what's a system or a network.
- cousinbryce 6mo agoThe fact that there’s more than one copy of TWINSCAN EXE 5k seems important
- Rexxar 6mo agoIt's strange to count this as single machine. But if we go this way, the north Chinese interconnection and the continental Europe interconnection are bigger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid).
- carlovalenti 6mo agoagree