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.
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.
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.
The thing is, I understand computers and space travel, it’s all stuff that makes sense when it’s explained to me properly. I’ve watched like six long form documentaries/explanations of combine harvesters and as far as I’m concerned it’s fucking wizard shit. It’s too complicated to actually work properly, it’s doing way too many entirely different things at once. There are entire multi stage manufacturing plants with less complex engineering requirements, it should jam up or break down two seconds after starting, it spits in the face of Ockham.