The APOD folks have an odd choice for their 
Astronomy Photo of the Day today, a ThyssenKrupp bucket wheel excavator. If you read through the description, you can see the connection- mines visible from space, a machine larger than the NASA crawler that transports the shuttle, and so on.  But let's face it, astro folks: you just have a bad case of rock envy.
 
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