The Biggest 3D Domino Pyramid Ever

This is the biggest 3D pyramid. It tops out at 17x17 an 3,400 dominoes.
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World's Biggest Ostrich Farm?

An entrepreneur in Mali hopes to build the world's biggest ostrich farm. LINK: Youtube

Biggest super tanker ever unveiled

A Danish shipping company has revealed plans for the biggest tanker ever - large enough to fit three football stadiums inside. LINK: Youtube

World’s Biggest BBQ

The world’s biggest BBQ is now British. At over 16ft long, 4.9ft wide and 11.5ft tall this ‘God-grilla’ can cook over 1000 sausages or 500 burgers at the same time.


Jack Henriques, an engineer who runs the Bespoke BBQ Company, took three months to build this behemoth. The ‘God-grilla’ has seven coal trays attached to Jack’s trademark scissor-jack system, helping to raise and lower the grills without having to move the meat.

This bespoke barbecue can roast the inhabitants of a small farm in an afternoon. It can cook seven whole lambs, three pigs or two cows in any one sitting. So it’s perfect for performing it’s current job of catering for wedding and party guests at Cripps Barn in the Cotswolds. LINK: The World's Biggest

Lego Battleship Yamato Is Biggest Lego Ship Ever

Like its real counterpart, this Battleship Yamato is the biggest Lego ship ever constructed. At 22 feet long, it took 6 years and 4 months to complete by one of our Lego contest winners. [Updated]

The Yamato—along with her sister ship Musashi—was the largest battleship ever constructed: 862 feet and 10 inches long and 121 feet long at its widest point. Made by Jumpei Mitsui, the Lego version was constructed at minifig scale (1/40), which is an amazing task that resulted in these specs: Is Bigger Than Three Queen-Sized Beds.

• 22 feet long.
• 3 feet wide.
• 330 pounds.
• More than 200,000 Lego pieces.

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World’s Biggest House Of Cards

“An American architect has broken his own Guinness World Record by building the largest house of free-standing playing cards. Bryan Berg used 218,792 cards to create a replica of the Venetian Macau, which is on display in its namesake luxury hotel and casino. Berg took 44 days and 4,051 decks of cards to complete his model inside the Venetian, which sits at the heart of Macau’s Cotai Strip, the China-ruled city’s version of Las Vegas’ neon alley.” w/ photos. LINK

30 Marvelous Motorcycles

Now That’s Nifty has a gallery of thirty unusual motorcycles, including those converted into campers, limos, and tracked vehicles. Among them is the massive Leonhardt Gunbus, which is powered by a massive 410 cubic inch engine:

When it comes to custom motorcycle builders, there’s crazy and there’s really crazy. Falling into the latter category is one Mr. Clemens F. Leonhardt, who has just finished building what he refers to as “the world’s biggest motorcycle.” Excluding some other crazy creations, such as the Monster Bike, the guy’s got a point. Unlike other two-wheeled behemoths, the Leonhardt Gunbus is actually ready to ride on normal roads and will soon go into series production. That’s right… you’ll actually be able to buy one of these. Next on the agenda is an equally massive sidecar, which somehow seems just right for this bike.

Link, Via: The Presurfer | Information on the Leonhardt Gunbus | Photo: Niot, Via: Neatorama

World’s Biggest Wine Bottle Goes To Auction

Top drop: Weighing in at 25kg and standing at 75cm high, the bottle towers over regular-size bottles of wine

“For lovers of wine fine, quality drops don’t come much bigger than this 2006 bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc. But those hoping to add it to their collection will need at least $4,900 – and a large wine cellar – because at 18litres it is significantly bigger than the 750ml bottle most people are used to. The large bottle, referred to as a melchior, is expected to fetch between $4,900 and $6,500 when it goes on sale as part of the Finest and Rarest Wines and Vintage Port auction at Sotheby’s next week. A Sotheby’s spokesman said it was ‘phenomenally rare’ to have a bottle of such a size, and even more unusual for it to be a Bordeaux wine. The melchior weighs in at 55 lbs, is 29 inches high with a circumference of 27 inches and contains enough wine to pour 144 glasses of wine.” LINK

World’s Biggest Crab Is Still Growing

“With its enormous limbs and lethal claws, this monster of the deep is already the biggest crab ever seen in Britain. But astonishingly, the arthropod – which measures a staggering 10ft from claw to claw – is still growing, and could live until it is 100. Nicknamed ‘Crabzilla’ after the fictional giant monster, the Japanese Spider Crab has a body the size of a basketball and its legs can straddle a car. They will eventually measure a massive 15ft. The crab, called Macrocheira kaempferi in Latin, was caught by fishermen in the Pacific Ocean and has now been imported to Britain where it has gone on display at the National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham.” LINK

Last Night's "Wolf Moon" was a Perigee Moon

Last night’s full moon was the biggest one of the year (by 14%) and also the brightest (by an impressive 30%).

The Moon’s remarkable luminosity sprung from its proximity–about 50,000 km closer to Earth than other full Moons of the year. This can happen because the Moon’s orbit is not a circle but an ellipse: diagram. Last night, the Moon was on the near side of the ellipse–a place astronomers call “perigee”–making it a big, bright perigee Moon.

The “Wolf Moon” designation applied to January full moons comes from Native American tradition, according to the Farmers’ Almanac. If you missed last night’s maximum, it will still be impressive tonight. Those experiencing cloudy weather can watch the movie “Moonstruck” instead.

Link. Via: Neatorama

Bagger 288: The World's Biggest Machine

Photo: Snorky [wikipedia]

In the coal stripmine Hambach in Germany, there was a machine so big that it boggles the mind.the Bagger 288:

This is the 45,000 ton Bagger 288 digger built by Krupps in Germany, and it is the largest land based machine built by humans on the face of the planet.

It’s not fast, moving at about 2 meters a minute, but boy can it shift rubble.

It can dig up 240,000 cubic meters of dirt a day. That’s about the same as a football field sized hole that’s 30 metres deep.

And why do you need a machine so absurdly big? So we can strip mine coal out of the ground, transport it hundreds of miles on massive trains and take it to power stations where we burn it to make electricity. And where does quite a chunk of this electricity go? Strangely back to the digger, as it requires 16.56 megawatts of electricity to operate. You’re not going to find a lot of solar panels on this leviathan.

Once it starts digging, it literally will not stop. Anything in its path will be chewed up, including this 60 ton bulldozer. How, I ask you, do you miss a 60 ton bulldozer?

Link, Via: Neatorama

But what is the true purpose of such a machine? Let’s all welcome our new digger overlord, as explained by Rathergood.

Biggest RC Airplane in the world (amazing)

Amazing RC scale. LINK: Youtube

Woman Catches World’s Biggest Lobster

This photo of Lizzy Sharp bravely holding what is probably the biggest lobster netted in British waters for 80 years is the only proof her fisherman husband has of his catch. Simon Sharp, 42, threw the creature, which measured more than 1m long, back into the sea after snapping it on his mobile phone. He did not want to risk its life by taking it to shore to be weighed and verified. Experts say its huge claws – said to measure 13 inches long and 6 inches wide – could take off a human hand. The Sharps were fishing when they noticed the female, believed to be more than 100 years old, caught up in their net off the coast of Dartmouth in Devon.” LINK

The biggest CRYSTAL ever found

This is the biggest CRYSTAL ever found. 16 million years old, 661 pounds and located in Switzerland. Copyright Roland Walliser. LINK: Youtube

World’s Biggest Water Hole

The massive overflow outlet pipe of the Owyhee Dam reservoir, Oregon. LINK

Seven Of The Biggest Beasts Of All Time

We all know about the size of dinosaurs, but how about a rodent the size of a bull, a sea scorpion bigger than a man, a frog as large as a beach ball, a penguin the size of a small adult human, a 1,000-pound ground-sloth-like marsupial, and a shark that may have grown longer than 50 feet and weighed up to 30 times more than the largest modern great white?

Seven Of The Biggest Beasts Of All Time. LINK

The World’s Biggest Airplanes

Some of the big airplanes flying today have wingspans that are longer than the entire path the Wright Brothers took on the first powered flight! Dark Roasted Blend has a rundown on the biggest ever. Pictured is the Ka-7, a Russian plane from the 1930s. Link, Via: Neatorama