I'm with the Scottsman, surely other civs DO know how to do it... they just label it as weapons test and get ON WITH IT, instead of dealing with the beaurocrafts.
I like the notion that this weapons inspector has no concept of an ancient human weapons system, and that the commander felt the need to distract him when he accidentally mentioned the existence of tanks in passing.
Well, considering how much the inspector was freaking out, he didn't want him to have a complete meltdown. Because at that point, tanks could probably shoot down space cruisers LOL
Not too mention, they would want more of the excavators. So like a good drug dealer, he gave them the first one for free, knowing that they will come back for more, lots, lots more.
I actually work in the mining industry, so that story is hitting quite close to home 😆 a planet without biosphere would be awesome, we wouldn’t need to worry about destroying anything or restoring anything. The least realistic part was the multiple blasts per day, in real mines they blast huge chunks of ore body that takes multiple days to clear out. Also plastic explosives aren’t really used, we can use ANFO if there isn’t any water that would destroy the amonium nitrate, if there is we can use a highly customizable blend of explosive that looks and feels like a yellowish mayonnaise. Plastic explosives like C4 aren’t really used as their detonation velocity are super high making them good at shredding steel but not so good at pushing rocks
No biosphere means you can just break the planet to pieces..allows access to the core for the heavy elements. Fast burning explosives do work for breaking rock but as you said not good for moving rock, so unless you want gravel....
Don't take it to heart, not every author is fluent in PEW PEW, BANG, and KABOOM. (Being former military helps...). So they either go to Wikipedia, or worse, half-ass it.
@@ironwolfF1 no i don’t take it to heart, and it’s not even what i specialized in. But I still have enough knowledge to know what is used in the mining industry I just like to teach things I know to people who are willing to listen
> You want to know what a tank is? Just think of a big gun and armor plating on one of those tracked vehicles instead of the cabin and bucket. Same proportions. < But... That thing is huge! > Yes.
Hold up subNautica? I have not heard of the Subnautica. one yet. And as a fan/traumatized victim of Sub nautica. I need to hear that. one Does anyone know what the episode is called?
He was away for a while, so I reckon that was the last bottle out of a dozen crate. Tis' a shame to drink good whisky that fast but the stuff on site would have been cheap rubbish that the company buys.
@@asureaskie Yeah, I kind of thought that anything available on the job-site would be somekind of shine or if the company actually provided it(at extra cost) a cheap rotgut. Although you can rely on a Scotsman to know where alcohol is. It's more reliable than a compass and they can navigate to the closest bottle store. Viva the alcohol!!
EVERYbody gets giddy when they can play with a tracked vehicle. They're tons of fun, even if they are wee little things. But there's nothing quite like having a convoy of Abrams tanks cruising by when out on maneuvers. Those buggers are both huge and fast.
I love how he danced around the concept of tanks. Poor xeno was already freaking out from common mining equipment. Telling him what a tank can do....might just cause his jaw to fall off.
The weapons inspector leaves with his new toy, and the foreman yells out " Ok guys enough mining for today, break out the BFG100K and let's see if we can get 20 percent more yield per shot."
Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo The best part of this story was the guy who was like "Humans are the only race with a concept of FY? I need a drink!"
I’ve actually got some heavy equipment that I need for our ranch in the mountains. All ancient. I love my 1987 Ford 655a. It’s 12’ tall and 24’ long on a flat bed. It can dig down 15 feet with ease. It’s amazing what you can do with one. My buddy calls it Fordzilla.
ROFLMFAO!!! I'm no Scotsman, but I might just join him in his stupor on that last one. :P On the other hand, I'm kinda glad he has no clue what a tank is. He hasn't ticked off the wrong humans, thankfully.
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Humans like things that go BOOM ! In war, for work and for pleasure. The only difference being how it's used. That weapon inspector guy actually had his jaw literally hit the floor just looking at a mining operation. That was kinda fun.
Well, technically, the tanks aren't being tested. They work just fine. The notion of not using explosives for breaking rock is amazing, though. The Romans used massive fires and sudden cooling with water to create explosive fracture of mine wall faces in Britain. It's just that basic. Many thanks.
excellent story and narration agro squirrel grew up in southern wv back when they still strip mined mountain tops and were building/finishing the wv turnpike so this brought back memories i can see aliens flooding engineering schools and buying up a ton of mining gear i miss the big muskie for mining in ohio [look it and others up online it's fascinating and you can find footage of some too]
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That alien would be fish food within 3 minutes if it were me, he/she/it was talking to me like that. One tiny body would not even be noticed in a strip-mining operation.
Actually surprising that they didn't use an airhorn to signal over shouting "fire in the hole" was a safety thing my pops was required to do and he had an entire truck floorboard covered in the cans. He was also a 38 year pro, once made a pool hole blow out the side so they only needed to clean the area of debris and smooth out the bed of the pool. Has 5 books of hardhat stickers from all the quarries and foundation building projects he'd been on.
As an underground coal miner, I have a very slight nitpick to get off my chest. If you are shoveling your minerals off the ground rather than digging underground to get them? Then that is not mining. That's farming.
Serious answer: Kind of depends on local geology. If the rock isn't sufficiently stable to allow subterranean mining or the water table is too high you have to do strip mining. In this case I'd guess the rock strata was too unstable to allow tunneling. They did mention safety regs. I'm from Florida and the whole center of the state is dotted with phosphate strip mines. Here the water table is way too high and the rock way too soft to allow tunnels. Un-serious answer: but blowing up the whole hillside is more fun!!!
Here in the midwest, there is a strong rivalry between surface and underground that at the end of the day means nothing, coal is coal. It's just a way a bunch of blue-collar country boys razz each other.
Strip-mining a planet? More likely, they will strip the planet bare to the mantle and it will be worthless for any purpose thereafter! What an amazing notion! Maybe that’s how you would make a Dyson sphere!
in all fairness, they probably have their own version of a tank and was just thrown off by the name, a mobile armored weapons platform isn't too crazy of an idea so even pacifist nations should have thought of it.
@@Netherdan fun historical fact: it was named a "tank" originally exactly for that reason. They wanted to keep German spies from finding out about the lumbering behemoths they were planning on unleashing on them.
How does a species leave its gravity well without knowing what heavy industry items like excavators, mining explosives, etc are? Sheesh, their ships must be unarmored, underpowered, and largly unarmed. And they don't have a consept of a Tank? I'm pretty sure I hear a Terran space fleet spinning up for a milk run of a conquering campaign.
Good story. Nicely done. But I'm with the scottsman. There is no way any species got to space and doesn't already know all of the above. Just a bit too much of a stretch...
I can see it working that way. First, you're talking about a pompous government employee trying to regulate something that's not his field. Probably grew up on a space station or hive city and has never seen a mining operation in his life. Second, think about the humans who don't understand where the food in the supermarket comes from.... Despite this knowledge being easily available. So I can totally see some alien being completely ignorant of this stuff. Like I said, government employee.
@@Wastelandman7000 Agreed. I was being too literal. The thought was, this was an example of every member of the species, and not the individual who happened to be an idiot. Still, it is a good example of an _extreme_ idiot. LOL
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I'm with the Scottsman, surely other civs DO know how to do it... they just label it as weapons test and get ON WITH IT, instead of dealing with the beaurocrafts.
@@MrSirwolf2001 If they run, you run...
I like the notion that this weapons inspector has no concept of an ancient human weapons system, and that the commander felt the need to distract him when he accidentally mentioned the existence of tanks in passing.
Well, considering how much the inspector was freaking out, he didn't want him to have a complete meltdown. Because at that point, tanks could probably shoot down space cruisers LOL
Not too mention, they would want more of the excavators. So like a good drug dealer, he gave them the first one for free, knowing that they will come back for more, lots, lots more.
This is instantly one of my favorites...
I actually work in the mining industry, so that story is hitting quite close to home 😆 a planet without biosphere would be awesome, we wouldn’t need to worry about destroying anything or restoring anything. The least realistic part was the multiple blasts per day, in real mines they blast huge chunks of ore body that takes multiple days to clear out. Also plastic explosives aren’t really used, we can use ANFO if there isn’t any water that would destroy the amonium nitrate, if there is we can use a highly customizable blend of explosive that looks and feels like a yellowish mayonnaise. Plastic explosives like C4 aren’t really used as their detonation velocity are super high making them good at shredding steel but not so good at pushing rocks
No biosphere means you can just break the planet to pieces..allows access to the core for the heavy elements.
Fast burning explosives do work for breaking rock but as you said not good for moving rock, so unless you want gravel....
And that there is the Key thing you want to move the rock not destroy it that comes later lol.
Well can;t get every thing perfect and maybe they are more efficient in the future
Don't take it to heart, not every author is fluent in PEW PEW, BANG, and KABOOM. (Being former military helps...).
So they either go to Wikipedia, or worse, half-ass it.
@@ironwolfF1 no i don’t take it to heart, and it’s not even what i specialized in. But I still have enough knowledge to know what is used in the mining industry I just like to teach things I know to people who are willing to listen
> You want to know what a tank is? Just think of a big gun and armor plating on one of those tracked vehicles instead of the cabin and bucket. Same proportions.
< But... That thing is huge!
> Yes.
Thank you for narrating my silly scribbling :)
more Spifflemonk content coming soon. Subnautica part 2 is currently being scribbled. :)
Subnautica? And spiffle? Looking forward to it.
Hold up subNautica? I have not heard of the Subnautica. one yet. And as a fan/traumatized victim of Sub nautica. I need to hear that. one Does anyone know what the episode is called?
@@njennett8005 agro hasnt narrated it. its on my page. i wrote it a month ago
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HOLD ON A SCOTSMAN DRUNK THAT QUICK?! This is sci-fi!
He was away for a while, so I reckon that was the last bottle out of a dozen crate. Tis' a shame to drink good whisky that fast but the stuff on site would have been cheap rubbish that the company buys.
he is a black Scottish cyclops.
@@brianmeadows1137 To be fair, it's Honey Jack, so it's sweet swill. $20USD/750ml, and useful for just getting drunk.
@@asureaskie Yeah, I kind of thought that anything available on the job-site would be somekind of shine or if the company actually provided it(at extra cost) a cheap rotgut. Although you can rely on a Scotsman to know where alcohol is. It's more reliable than a compass and they can navigate to the closest bottle store.
Viva the alcohol!!
@@brianmeadows1137Absinth would be more like that effect, but that's more of an Irish thing, lol.
EVERYbody gets giddy when they can play with a tracked vehicle. They're tons of fun, even if they are wee little things. But there's nothing quite like having a convoy of Abrams tanks cruising by when out on maneuvers. Those buggers are both huge and fast.
I love how he danced around the concept of tanks. Poor xeno was already freaking out from common mining equipment. Telling him what a tank can do....might just cause his jaw to fall off.
Might cause it to fall off…again
I just keep picturing this alien discovering (rediscovering?) Kim Drakula and rocking out to "Killdozer" as he drives his caterpillar.
Humans teaching aliens a new way of mining. Great story! Thank you Agro Squirrel for narrating this for us.
The weapons inspector leaves with his new toy, and the foreman yells out " Ok guys enough mining for today, break out the BFG100K and let's see if we can get 20 percent more yield per shot."
You can’t just blow a hole through mars!
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Lets not ask and pretend we dont care. < Life advice
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The best part of this story was the guy who was like "Humans are the only race with a concept of FY? I need a drink!"
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I’ve actually got some heavy equipment that I need for our ranch in the mountains. All ancient. I love my 1987 Ford 655a. It’s 12’ tall and 24’ long on a flat bed. It can dig down 15 feet with ease. It’s amazing what you can do with one. My buddy calls it Fordzilla.
ROFLMFAO!!! I'm no Scotsman, but I might just join him in his stupor on that last one. :P
On the other hand, I'm kinda glad he has no clue what a tank is. He hasn't ticked off the wrong humans, thankfully.
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Great story; Excellent narration! Even if it wasn't efficient, humans would still use explosives to mine....its just fun! LOL!!!
LOL!! i really like this author's work. more please? :))
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Having run my first skid loader at age 7, I am in full agreement with the alien. It gets even better when you can do more than run it, but operate it.
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Humans like things that go BOOM ! In war, for work and for pleasure. The only difference being how it's used.
That weapon inspector guy actually had his jaw literally hit the floor just looking at a mining operation. That was kinda fun.
Welp I guess stonks will go up in the future.
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Our alien boi here would LOVE the British theme park 'Diggerworld'.
Well, technically, the tanks aren't being tested. They work just fine. The notion of not using explosives for breaking rock is amazing, though. The Romans used massive fires and sudden cooling with water to create explosive fracture of mine wall faces in Britain. It's just that basic.
Many thanks.
Men really love Ancient Rome, so thanks for sharing that historical tidbit 😊
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I already heard this story from another narrator, but still like this version better. Great story and storytelling!
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excellent story and narration agro squirrel
grew up in southern wv back when they still strip mined mountain tops and were building/finishing the wv turnpike so this brought back memories
i can see aliens flooding engineering schools and buying up a ton of mining gear
i miss the big muskie for mining in ohio [look it and others up online it's fascinating and you can find footage of some too]
Aliens are surprised to see Humanity using high explosives casually as tool.
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The only thing this story needs, is to mention is using the sim game that uses those heavy machinery.
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That alien would be fish food within 3 minutes if it were me, he/she/it was talking to me like that. One tiny body would not even be noticed in a strip-mining operation.
Problem is that is against some regulation LOL They seem to be as weighed down with them as we are these days.
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lawl... that was both cute and funny. We all need a drunken Scotsman in our lives just to keep it real.
Actually surprising that they didn't use an airhorn to signal over shouting "fire in the hole" was a safety thing my pops was required to do and he had an entire truck floorboard covered in the cans.
He was also a 38 year pro, once made a pool hole blow out the side so they only needed to clean the area of debris and smooth out the bed of the pool.
Has 5 books of hardhat stickers from all the quarries and foundation building projects he'd been on.
As an underground coal miner, I have a very slight nitpick to get off my chest. If you are shoveling your minerals off the ground rather than digging underground to get them? Then that is not mining. That's farming.
Serious answer: Kind of depends on local geology. If the rock isn't sufficiently stable to allow subterranean mining or the water table is too high you have to do strip mining. In this case I'd guess the rock strata was too unstable to allow tunneling. They did mention safety regs. I'm from Florida and the whole center of the state is dotted with phosphate strip mines. Here the water table is way too high and the rock way too soft to allow tunnels.
Un-serious answer: but blowing up the whole hillside is more fun!!!
Here in the midwest, there is a strong rivalry between surface and underground that at the end of the day means nothing, coal is coal. It's just a way a bunch of blue-collar country boys razz each other.
Strip-mining a planet? More likely, they will strip the planet bare to the mantle and it will be worthless for any purpose thereafter! What an amazing notion! Maybe that’s how you would make a Dyson sphere!
Still wonder what they though when discovering black powder
Large number of rats ... I boggle at the idea of the sound.
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in all fairness, they probably have their own version of a tank and was just thrown off by the name, a mobile armored weapons platform isn't too crazy of an idea so even pacifist nations should have thought of it.
Also, tank is a purposefully misleading name
I don't know. If they didn't even think to use explosives in the simple act of mining what else did they miss along the way?
@@Netherdan fun historical fact: it was named a "tank" originally exactly for that reason. They wanted to keep German spies from finding out about the lumbering behemoths they were planning on unleashing on them.
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wait til they see a tank1
But it does make one wonder how they mine enough metals/minerals to build pretty much anything.
How does a species leave its gravity well without knowing what heavy industry items like excavators, mining explosives, etc are? Sheesh, their ships must be unarmored, underpowered, and largly unarmed. And they don't have a consept of a Tank? I'm pretty sure I hear a Terran space fleet spinning up for a milk run of a conquering campaign.
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Good story. Nicely done. But I'm with the scottsman. There is no way any species got to space and doesn't already know all of the above. Just a bit too much of a stretch...
I can see it working that way. First, you're talking about a pompous government employee trying to regulate something that's not his field. Probably grew up on a space station or hive city and has never seen a mining operation in his life. Second, think about the humans who don't understand where the food in the supermarket comes from.... Despite this knowledge being easily available. So I can totally see some alien being completely ignorant of this stuff. Like I said, government employee.
@@Wastelandman7000 Agreed. I was being too literal. The thought was, this was an example of every member of the species, and not the individual who happened to be an idiot. Still, it is a good example of an _extreme_ idiot. LOL
Good entry. It a bit long
"I stood there completely buggered out of my mind " ,
yeah i kinda find it hard to beleive xeos would not know mining with explosives and how to use hydraulics or phase them out to useful.
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